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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-27-05 10:37 AM
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Chalabi may be shut out of Iraqi Assembly

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/article_1071696.php/Chalabi_may_be_shut_out_of_Iraqi_Assembly

Chalabi may be shut out of Iraqi Assembly

BAGHDAD, Iraq (UPI) -- One-time U.S.-favored Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi is unlikely to win enough votes to join the new Iraqi Assembly, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

With 95 percent of a preliminary tally from the Dec. 15 vote completed, Chalabi remained almost 8,000 votes short of the 40,000 minimum needed for him or his bloc to win a single seat in the 275-seat National Assembly, election officials said.

Chalabi`s supporters had hoped he would do well among exile voters who were allowed to cast ballots overseas. But results released Monday showed he received 0.89 percent of the special vote.

Even if he fails to reach the plateau to gain a seat, a spokesman, Haider Mousawi, told the newspaper Chalabi would not be idle.
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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-27-05 10:39 AM
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1. AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!
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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-27-05 03:22 PM
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14. HERE IS HIS MENTOR
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Trajan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-27-05 10:40 AM
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2. My ass ....
Dickie Boy will PERSONALLY shoehorn this filth into power .... after all, they need a reliable conduit for oil wealth into corporate american pocketbooks ...

Can you say 'King Ahmed' ????

I knew you could ....
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-27-05 11:12 AM
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3. Chalabi's new line of t-shirts
"I inveigled the United States into a ruinous invasion, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt"

But yeah, I expect that "Ahmed Who?" (to use Bush's pet name for the man who sat behind his wife at the 2004 State of the Union address) will use this electoral failure to propel himself into a plum position in the new Iraqi government.
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JNelson6563 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-27-05 11:17 AM
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4. I get the feeling someone's going to get
Edited on Tue Dec-27-05 11:18 AM by JNelson6563
whacked.

Even if he fails to reach the plateau to gain a seat, a spokesman, Haider Mousawi, told the newspaper Chalabi would not be idle.

Seems to me the Iraqis have tried numerous ways to tell this guy to bugger off and he ain't gettin' it. I suspect continuous efforts to meddle by Chalabi will result in him getting permanently "idled".

Just my .0125

Julie
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-27-05 11:54 AM
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8. Nay, they still need him to stir up civil war
good thing he doesn't have much of a following.
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Gman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-27-05 11:24 AM
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5. Shoulda used Diebold
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Pithy Cherub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-27-05 11:32 AM
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6. Chalabi - the latest leader of the Pity Party...
He will have songs like: Don't cry for me Iraq, Where has Judy gone and Somewhere over the Euphrates on his upcoming CD. :rofl:
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Larkspur Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-27-05 11:49 AM
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7. Chalabi certainly deserves worse than not getting a seat in the Iraqi
Parliment, but this is a nice present for this Holiday Season.

Ho! Ho! Ho!
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6th Borough Donating Member (670 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-27-05 02:00 PM
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9. I'm sure we have many Manchurian candidates to replace this Cantonese one.
/EOM
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Tempest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-27-05 02:13 PM
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10. "Chalabi would not be idle"
Of course not.

He'll emigrate back to London, lie and decieve another country into invading Iraq once again so he can try to take power.

Just like he did with the U.S. and the neo-cons.
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-27-05 02:36 PM
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11. Couldn't Happen to a More Deserving Guy
Make my day, you scoundrels! If only we could get the US citizenry as smart as the Iraqis.
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-27-05 02:46 PM
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12. Sound like....it look like ....the Iraqis are out politicking the U.S.
Ahmed Chalabi was a brain fart from whom? And American lives were given to prop this mustache up to replace Saddam? 2169 dead, 17,000 who lost eyes, arms, legs and their brain.

We should be ashameed of ourselves.
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lyonn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-27-05 03:18 PM
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13. Now there is some good news from iraq
nt
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cantstandbush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-27-05 03:30 PM
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15. A just end for an unjust beginning. n./t
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