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Iraq's Ahmad Chalabi, leading voice behind 2003 war, dies
BAGHDAD (AP) Ahmad Chalabi, a prominent Iraqi politician and leading advocate of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion to overthrow Saddam Hussein, has died of a heart attack, Iraqi state TV reported Tuesday.
The report said he died in Baghdad but did not provide further details on the circumstances of his death. He was 71.
Chalabi, a secular Shiite politician who lived in exile for decades, was a leading proponent of the invasion to topple Saddam and provided false information indicating that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. He had close ties to many in the Bush administration, who viewed him as a favorite to lead Iraq after the 2003 intervention.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/11/03/ahmad-chalabi-iraq-dies/75079794/
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)erronis
(15,373 posts)A two-bit liar propped up by more BushCo liars. All to plunder the wealth of the ME and the US taxpayers - including their sons and daughters who fought for these lies.
JHB
(37,163 posts)...it leaves off his history as an embezzler and swindler.
Raine1967
(11,589 posts)(snip)
He became a leading figure in Iraq's exiled opposition in the 1990s and cultivated close ties with the future Vice President Dick Cheney and Washington's so-called neo-conservatives, who favored a more muscular U.S. policy in the Middle East.
After the Sept. 11 attacks, Chalabi played a key role in convincing the administration that the Iraqi government had weapons of mass destruction and ties to al Qaeda, unfounded claims at the heart of the case for war.
Following the invasion, Chalabi was appointed to the 25-member Iraqi governing council and earned a seat directly behind First Lady Laura Bush during the 2004 State of the Union.
erronis
(15,373 posts)again.
I hope this whole era can be documented in an extended "People's History". It would be a shame to let the Texas Board of Edjikashun have any say in the recounting of histor!
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)There was a man who went to the newsstand every morning, growled at the front page, and then walked away. One day, the newsboy asked, "Sir, what are you looking for?" The man snarled, "The obituaries." The newsboy replied, "But, sir, those are on page 30!" In a voice as cold as February ice, the man replied, "When the asshole I'm looking for dies, it'll be on the front page."
You're on the front page today, Mr. Chalabi. Enjoy your time in Hell. The shades of all the men, women and children you helped kill see you on your cold slab ... and they are pleased.
Pitt: The Crawling King Snake Returns
http://truth-out.org/archive/component/k2/item/54011:the-crawling-king-snake-returns
Pitt: Blood Money
http://www.truth-out.org/archive/item/43670:william-rivers-pitt--blood-money
Pitt: The Iranian Spy in the House of Bush
http://yubanet.com/opinions/William_Rivers_Pitt_The_Iranian_Spy_in_the_House_o_10194.php#.VjircyuJ1IJ
Pitt: The Chalabi Factor
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0607/S00448/william-rivers-pitt-the-chalabi-factor.htm
Take care, folks. The planet is a little lighter this morning.
redwitch
(14,948 posts)trumad
(41,692 posts)If you come back I'll fly to NH and try to whoop your ass. Not sure if I'll be successful--you are kind of spry...but I'll try!
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)And glad to see you, Will! This place needs to do more dancing!
redwitch
(14,948 posts)I was admiring my Lady Madonna voodoo doll recently and could not for the life of me remember who made it. Was it you by any chance?
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)That was such fun.
I still have the pic from this one.
redwitch
(14,948 posts)Do you make these to sell? Is there a place I can see more of them?
The Blue Flower
(5,446 posts)You've been missed, Will.
mountain grammy
(26,658 posts)for this killer and collaborator, and for those still walking among us who shouldn't be.
panader0
(25,816 posts)Don't be a stranger.
denbot
(9,901 posts)Peace to you and yours Will.
malaise
(269,211 posts)Stick around please
Good to see ya!
annabanana
(52,791 posts)Nice to see you here
SalviaBlue
(2,918 posts)Thanks for the links
bullwinkle428
(20,631 posts)Nice to see you drop back in here from time to time, Will.
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)We second and +1k, please stay. You have been missed.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)There's a Dick Cheney suite in Hotel Hell and Mr. Chalabi has just checked in.
Our world is a better place today.
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)I'm posting very little these days myself. The great intellectual debates that used to be so much a part of DU have all but disappeared. It's all "rah rah" my candidate/my party anymore. I can't even post our campaign efforts because it was deemed "bragging."
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)Etraker
(59 posts)will politely follow him, and maybe take the rest of the NeoCons with him. There was a line in the movie Sling Blade that went something like, You'll be dead soon and we'll be shed of ya!
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)They drink blood and are immortal. We will never be rid of the two. Only with silver, garlic and wood stakes through the heart and then we can only hope...........
hatrack
(59,593 posts).
erronis
(15,373 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Cheney and the rest of the neo-Cons would have just found someone else.
malaise
(269,211 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)malaise
(269,211 posts)Fugg all the war criminals
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)Good riddance to bad, bad rubbish. Your new bff awaits.
bullwinkle428
(20,631 posts)bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)dembotoz
(16,860 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,479 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)may he not rest in peace
Solly Mack
(90,790 posts)Death didn't magically erase their deeds. Death didn't imbue them with goodness. Dying didn't change the circumstances of any of their victims.
I'll save my concern for the victims of people like Chalabi (and Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Tenet, Rice, Powell, Ashcroft, Feith, Yoo, Gonzales, Addington, Mukasey, Hadley, Bybee, Goss, Bradbury, Haynes, Myers, Miller, Sanchez, CIA agents, to name just a few etc..)
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Hekate
(90,853 posts)PNAC and the Neocons, and now Jebby is back to whitewash their bloody history.
The harm they caused looks like it will go on for generations.
Bigmack
(8,020 posts)I'm just finishing up a 40 ouncer. I want to have a full tank when I piss on his grave.
JEB
(4,748 posts)Hope I live long enough to dance W's grave