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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-10-05 06:11 PM
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David Frum says that Chalibi's Goal is Wealth/He will Make Iraqi's Rich
if he becomes Prime Minister. David Frum said this with a delightful smile on his face...as if he was Kudlow recommending everybody invest in
the Stock Market...Because "SUPPLY SIDE ECONOMICS" will "MAKE EVERYONE RICH!"

I was restraining myself...but it was good to hear what Frum and the NeoCons are all about.

A Rich Chalabi=Rich Iraqi's..........:rofl:
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kenny blankenship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-10-05 06:12 PM
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1. Like when he embezzled from that bank in Jordan?
Edited on Thu Nov-10-05 06:14 PM by kenny blankenship
I got it. He just wanted to share the wealth!
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-10-05 06:17 PM
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2. Yep...heard on Chris Matthews where they were actually laughing at his
Crookery. It was a good show...and I find Matthews disgusting but he really went at Frum on what he said. And, I think it's good that he showed Frum for what he is. A "Supply Sider" who loves wealth and anyone who is as "smart and gifted and went to the right schools as he did should be applauded."

Frum is a Pig WHORE that we on the Left NEED TO EXPOSE!
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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-10-05 06:18 PM
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3. He's going to hand out cash by the palletsful. Just like the U.S. did.
What a pathetic piece of excrement he is and damn the Republican party for catering to this criminal.
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-10-05 08:59 PM
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7. 'A crook who cooked the books.' Friend of Perle's.
Like Bush, Chalabi's just a crook.

From The Guardian:



His reputation is far from unblemished'

Opinion is split over proposed leader of Iraq


Toby Manhire
Thursday May 8, 2003
The Guardian

In the search for leadership in postwar Iraq, Ahmad Chalabi's name crops up again and again. The 58-year-old leader of the Iraqi National Congress (INC) returned to his homeland last month after 45 years in exile. This week he was named by the US admin-istration in Iraq as part of the likely "nucleus of leadership" for the country.

Mr Chalabi's repeated denials of any ambition to gain political office in Iraq have been met with widespread scepticism. At Slate.com, Chris Sullentrop raised an eyebrow at statements that "sound suspiciously like the carefully crafted formulations that American presidential candidates use when they're pretending not to be presidential candidates".

Newsweek set out the central uncertainty: "To his American friends, Mr Chalabi is a democrat and a paragon of Iraqi patriotism. To his enemies, he's a crook." To others, he is little more than an American tool. In the London-based pan-Arab daily al-Hayat, Kanan Mikiya dubbed him "the Pentagon's favourite puppet"; the Independent called him "the Pentagon's place-man".

Though Mr Chalabi is favoured by key figures in the US administration, including the defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, as well as by Pentagon adviser Richard Perle, his popularity knows bounds. "The prospect of Mr Chalabi heading anything appals British and US diplomats, including the entire state department," said Simon Jenkins in the Times.

Nor is Mr Chalabi's profile in Iraq especially high. The Asia Times noted that his "Pentagon patrons" were this week "being forced to admit that their hero appeared to have less of a following in Iraq than they had been led to believe".

Mr Chalabi's reputation is one of his main problems. In the early 90s, he was convicted, in absentia, by a Jordanian military court for embezzling more than £40bn. He disputes the legitimacy of the charges, but members of the Jordanian financial community talked to by the Village Voice said that "at best ... he was grossly negligent, at a tremendous cost not only to the Jordanian economy, but to thousands of shareholders ... and at worst, in the words of Mohammed Said Nabulsi, he 'was a crook who absolutely cooked the books to hide his crimes'".

CONTINUED...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,951205,00.html



And this turdball is the Oil Minister today.

Oh yeah. And like Bush, the Iranian spy Chalabi's a traitor.

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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-10-05 06:19 PM
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4. We need a Chalabi death pool--anybody want in?
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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-10-05 06:29 PM
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5. Ahmed is assasination proof, at least from the Bush Regime.
Why?

Commentary: Chalabi's road to victory
By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE
UPI Editor at Large

WASHINGTON, March 29 (UPI) -- With only three months to go before L. Paul Bremer trades in his Iraqi pro-consul baton for beachwear and a hard-earned vacation, the country's most controversial politician is already well positioned to become prime minister.

Ahmad Chalabi, the Pentagon's heartthrob and the State Department's and CIA's heartbreak, has taken the lead in a yearlong political marathon. Temporary constitutional arrangements are structured to give the future prime minister more power than the president. The role of the president will be limited because his decisions will have to be ratified by two deputy presidents, or vice presidents. Key ministries, such as Defense and Interior, will be taking orders from the prime minister.

Chalabi holds the ultimate weapons -- several dozen tons of documents and individual files seized by his Iraqi National Congress from Saddam Hussein's secret security apparatus. Coupled with his position as head of the de-Baathification commission, Chalabi, barely a year since he returned to his homeland after 45 years of exile, has emerged as the power behind a vacant throne. He also appears to have impressive amounts of cash at his disposal and a say in which companies get the nod for some of the $18.4 billion earmarked for reconstruction. One company executive who asked that both his and the company's name be withheld said, "The commission was steep even by Middle Eastern standards."

http://www.upi.com/inc/view.php?StoryID=20040329-094918-2616r

*Those Saddam Documents will be released in the event of Ahmed Chalabi's assasination by the Bush Regime.
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-10-05 08:48 PM
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6. Josh Marshall and Steve Clemmons were thinking about a "Citizens Arrest"
Edited on Thu Nov-10-05 08:49 PM by KoKo01
of that Criminal. Then they realized that the word was..he has big Goon, Thugs and you can't get close enough to him to do it. They checked further and found that Chalabi has to be "caught in the act" for a Citizen's Arrest.

But, I give Josh and Steve a big :toast: for trying. They were urging demonstrators to follow Chalabi and gave all the sites he would be visiting hoping folks would show up.

Matthews had a quick view of Protesters against Chalabi in front of the American Enterprise Institure (AIE) today.

I'll bet lots of folks protested...but since we couldn't "catch him in the act" ....sadly there was no "citizen arrest." :-(
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arewenotdemo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-10-05 10:04 PM
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8. He'll be lucky to see 2010.
By then Clark will have pulled the last GI out.

Even the Iranians will have no use for him and the Schnozz will be on his own.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-10-05 10:08 PM
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9. putting you down for 2010--done.
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