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Iraq's Next PM? Ahmed Chalabi, Chief Peddler of False WMDs, Meets U.S. Officials As Malaki Falters
Iraq's Next PM? Ahmed Chalabi, Chief Peddler of False WMDs, Meets U.S. Officials As Malaki Falters
http://www.democracynow.org -
Pressure is mounting on Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to form a less sectarian
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Alex P Notkeaton
(309 posts)Difficult to believe, I know!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Dunno what room they have been keeping him in since his last appearnace in Bush land...but by gum, there he is, all spruced up and under-study ready.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)I said that when Richard Nixon was running in 1968, when Netanyahu looked like he would take over, when George Bush became the nominee, etc.
Ilsa
(61,675 posts)They certainly wanted to keep him around after the first attempt to install him failed. This turd needs multiple flushes.
justgamma
(3,660 posts)drunk cousin that told everyone about Saddam and the yellowcake. I can't remember what he was called. I do remember that he was related to Chalabi.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)vindicate what he did because he'd been there and into it all.
ballyhoo
(2,060 posts).........
merrily
(45,251 posts)This was the guy Bushco supposedly listened to.
delrem
(9,688 posts)Way to go, oh you "Friends of Syria" and "Right 2 Protect Libya" and "WMD Iraq" and "Enduring Freedom Afghanistan" lovers. Way to go.
newthinking
(3,982 posts)The propaganda is just better on that one.
McCaine, International Republican Institute, Nuland (Project for a New American Century).
Press TV: US neocons accelerated crisis in Ukraine: Brian Becker (ANSWER Coallation)
http://www.presstv.com/detail/2014/04/29/360625/us-neocons-accelerated-ukraine-crisis/
The neoconservatives in the Obama administration artificially accelerated the crisis in Ukraine by supporting an illegal coup d'état that neo-Nazis and xenophobic elements carried out, a peace activist in Washington says.
I believe the US government accelerated and artificially created this crisis, said Brian Becker, the national coordinator for the ANSWER Coalition, a US-based protest umbrella group consisting of many antiwar and civil rights organizations.
The US government having created a sort of chaotic situation has to blame someone, so theyre blaming the Putin government, theyre pointing the finger at the government in Moscow, Becker told Press TV in a phone interview on Tuesday.
Becker made the comments as tensions between the US and Russia are growing over the deepening crisis in Ukraine.
delrem
(9,688 posts)assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs at the United States Department of State and wife of Robert Kagan, co-founder of the think-tank "Project for the New American Century" (PNAC), had no influence whatever in the Obama admin. Nothing to do with events in Ukraine.
This guy aimed it all at "Putin" and those who disagreed - were "Putinistas".
This person was and is all over DU, pushing extreme right-wing propaganda of the very worst (see above example) kind. If someone calls this person out, they get alerted on, but there's no way to alert on such extreme right-wing shit as they spew because, well, it's just lies, lies and more right-wing fascist lies.
newthinking
(3,982 posts)position. McCain is mentioned as being in the crowd.
ctsnowman
(1,903 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)Of course, Obama had no choice but to nominate someone referred by McCain. It wasn't as though electing Obama indicated that most Americans were rejecting McCain's way of thinking.
From her wiki:
Victoria Nuland graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in 1979 and has a B.A. from Brown University. Nuland speaks Russian, French, and a little Chinese.[citation needed] Nuland has two children. Nulands husband is historian Robert Kagan, Council on Foreign Relations member, and co-founder of the think-tank "Project for the New American Century" (PNAC).
Career
During the Bill Clinton administration, Nuland was chief of staff to Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott before moving on to serve as deputy director for former Soviet Union affairs.
She served as the principal deputy foreign policy adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney and then as U.S. ambassador to NATO.
Nuland became special envoy for Conventional Armed Forces in Europe and then became State Department spokesperson in summer 2011.[3]
She was nominated to serve as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs in May 2013 and sworn in to fill that role in September 2013.[4] During her confirmation hearings, she faced "sharp questions" about a memo she had sent outlining the talking points that would be used by the Obama administration in the days shortly after the 2012 Benghazi attack.[5]
Those unfamiliar with Choate may be interested to know that Pres. Kennedy is also an alum (which gives you an idea of whose kids get to go to Choate).
I'm a bit slow catching up with this thread.
But what, WHAT is this fucking abomination!
I'm 4.5 minutes in, and,
and I'm thinking what can USian "Democrats" be thinking????????
This is the US SoS, following HRC (the anointed one).
Watching the USA is like watching some zombie apocalypse movie.
eta: I endured another 5 minutes. So don't say that I don't pay my dues.
I get to the point 9:00 or so in, which recapitulates the fawning "respect" Mr. Kerry drowns Victoria Nuland in, and where he concludes:
"Victoria has served her country her entire adult life, and as the most prominent member of the unique, some might even say improbable member of the Dick Cheney Hillary Clinton alumni association (laughter)... she has earned the trust and confidence of Democrats and Republicans alike, without party affiliation."
This is, without doubt, the most obscene political porn as I've ever witnessed.
merrily
(45,251 posts)Not surprising. They've had so many opportunity to practice.
As in,
"Can you tell me the way to Carnegie Hall?"
"Practice, practice, practice."
ctsnowman
(1,903 posts)Love the logos. No sense hiding the sponsors.
merrily
(45,251 posts)for the DLC and founded the Progressive Policy Institute, whose website once described itself as "the place for pragmatic progressives."
One of the reasons that I never believed Hillary when she said she had voted for the Iraq War only because she had not read the National Intelligence Estimate before she voted.
ctsnowman
(1,903 posts)everything you could before taking the floor to make a speech like this:
Skip to the 5 minute mark or so to see her carry the water.
merrily
(45,251 posts)Seriously, if someone who voted for a war in which my loved one had died announced he or she was having second thoughts about his or her vote, I'd probably be in prison within a few hours.
merrily
(45,251 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)cynzke
(1,254 posts)showed up at some big social/political event too when Bush was in office. Wasn't he an invited guest at Bushes second oath? Chalabi is the kind of guy who can turn into another Saddam....lust for power. And he will have his hand in the treasury cookie jar.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)We want to thank you all for playing and participating in this poorly thought-out charade and we hope to to see you again soon in Syria!
- And thanks for all your ''contributions,'' without which none of this would have been possible!!!!
K&R
Al Carroll
(113 posts)He was given a 22 year sentence for embezzlement in Jordan.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/apr/14/iraq.davidleigh
It wasn't small time either, $200 million. There's a good chance many nations would not accept him as a leader.
Bush tried to put Chalabi in power after Saddam was overthrown, but Iraqis and the CIA both blocked it.
It is almost literally harder to imagine a worse choice.