Ahmed Chalabi - Ruiner of lives and other wonderful character flaws.

Have Our tax dollars been supporting a con man ?

Definetely- your tax dollars have been supporting this scum of the earth. Ahmed Chalabi.


Imagine a man who uses the US like pawns, lying, misleading, stabbing us in the backs by double crossing us against other countries. Selling secrets to our enemies. Promising welcoming parades in the streets of Baghdad , WMDs by the ton.

Now imagine a President using the info of this scumball felon to start wars. 800 people are dead over this slab of dung. Thousands of Iraqis, hundreds of billions of tax dollars wasted.

It just doesnt seem possible that someone could be so snowed by such an obvious con man with a record..A president of the most powerful nation on Earth gets slimed by a slimeball lowlife who now admits he freakin' lied. He said we "erred " but it was a good mistake because he can now take power in Iraq. I saw him saying this and he had a look of contentedness on his ugly lying face. He seemed to be saying that he was pleased to have conned us(Bush) so thouroughly.

Americans died to put this scum in power. We should Nuke the Iraqi National Congress.

Rant over. Anger still seething

no more $335K per month

they had some weasel former ambassador on, trying to polish that turd as well as they could

he said that Chalabi had some dark spots on his past, mentioning that he been INDICTED in Jordan for bank fraud, while neglecting to mention that he's been CONVICTED, as well, also forgetting to mention that he left Jordan in the trunk of somebody's car.

really bad bid of journalism from a typically lousy show.

what do you expect from a program with that title?

and they referred to him as Fired. He's a total dirtbag.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x564898

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=522664

Washington to stop funding Iraqi whose misleading WMD claims hastened war
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington

19 May 2004

Washington said yesterday that it was to cease funding the Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi, the former exile whose "intelligence reports" and claims about Americans' likely reception among his countrymen helped push the Bush administration to war.

Officials said the Pentagon would stop paying Mr Chalabi's group, the Iraqi National Congress (INC), $340,000 (£192,000) a month at the end of June, when the US is due to return sovereignty of Iraq.

Entifadh Qanbar, an INC spokesman in Washington, said: "After 30 June, we expect all funding by US agencies to be ceased because the Iraqi government will be sovereign."

The decision underlines Washington's growing frustration and disillusionment with the INC, which ­ for several years ­ had the ear of the administration as it supported the ousting of Saddam Hussein. The US ­ either through the CIA or the State Department ­ has provided tens of millions of dollars to the INC in exchange for information about Iraq and defectors from the regime.

hear. They're all 'cut from the same cloth'. If Chalabi hadn't told them what they wanted to hear, they would have found some other lying convicted embezzler to do it. Not justifying anything, just pointing out that they are no damn better than he is, the only difference is he has already been convicted of criminal activity, the others have gotten away with it so far.

... love this face?


Here's (more) info on him:
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Ahmed_Chalabi

I agree with an earlier poster; Chalabi just told Bush what he wanted to hear, because Chalabi is a greedy, spineless simp.

Here is another DU topic on this guy:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1136357




But his PR firm can't save his sorry ass now.

Burson Marsteller has propped up many a fascist despot in its day. They and Hills and Knowlton do PR makeovers for some of the world's nastiest sleaze.

PR Watch, May 9,2003

INC Seeks Enhanced Credibility
"Burson-Marsteller is working to enhance the credibility of the Iraq National Congress as it seeks to establish itself as a legitimate force in postinvasion Iraq," writes Holmes Report, a PR trade publication. "B-M has been working with the Congress, led by highprofile Iraqi exile Ahmed Chalabi, since 1999, under a state department contract. Chalabi and the Congress have close ties with the Bush administration, but some critics are concerned that their support within Iraq is shallow. "We've been the communications vehicle on the outside as the INC moved into northern Iraq, then to Nasiriya, and to Baghdad," K. Riva Levinson, who heads the INC account for Burson out of Washington, told reporters, "We were helping the INC get out statements and videos that made it clear that the exiled opposition was consolidating and moving. It's been a tremendous ride for them and for us."

More on Burson-Marsteller

Corpwatch UK writes, Burson-Marsteller is one of the largest public relations agencies in the world and also the most reviled due to its mercenary attitude in choosing clients and contracts, and its frequent run ins with activists for enviromental and other progressive causes. When helping its industry clients to escape enviromental legislation or sprucing up the image of some of the most repressive governments on Earth, B-M brings to bear state of the art techniques in manupulating the mass media, legislators and public opinion."

The company has represented deposed Romanian despot Nicolae Ceaucescu, the repressive Indonesian and Nigerian governments, Union Carbide after the Bhopal disaster, Monsanto, Phillip Morris and GlaxoSmithKline.

http://www.guerrillanews.com

Im happy they came to their senses as far as the 4 million. I also agree that Chalabi told Smirk what he wanted to hear.

Either way , conned or used, Smirk shows really bad judgement and a total lack of competence.

Would you trust a CEO that has shown this failure with your life savings?

Why would this country give this guy in the WH the keys to the nukes? Thats some crazy shlt.

After fleeing Jordan, Chalabi went to Europe and founded the INC in 1992 at a meeting of some anti-Saddam Hussein exiles held in Vienna, Austria. James Woolsey, who became the Director of the CIA under President Bill Clinton, made Chalabi's INC the cutting-edge of the CIA's operations against Saddam Hussein. Chalabi allegedly became Woolsey's blue-eyed boy and the INC became the most favored recipient of CIA funds meant for the overthrow of Saddam, according to Raman.

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=31508

another interesting story, from AmProspect

http://www.prospect.org/print-friendly/print/V13/21/dreyfuss-r.html

both give two sides of embezzlement story, one saying it was political

BUT.......guess who his lawyer was?

Casper fricking WEINBERGER!!!!

how weird is THAT?

That guy made utter fools of us and got rich at the same time. Guess he isn't stupid.