Good lord, Bushco gave Chalabi the checkbook again.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/012598.php

It's gotta be good if ... (from the WSJ ...)

In his latest remarkable political reincarnation, onetime U.S. favorite Ahmed Chalabi has secured a position inside the Iraqi government that could help determine whether the Bush administration's new push to secure Baghdad succeeds.

In a new post created earlier this year, Mr. Chalabi will serve as an intermediary between Baghdad residents and the Iraqi and U.S. security forces mounting an aggressive counterinsurgency campaign across the city. The position is meant to help Iraqis arrange reimbursement for damage to their cars and homes caused by the security sweeps in the hope of maintaining public support for the strategy.

The new position is vaguely defined, and it is too early to tell how much power Mr. Chalabi will ultimately wield. How much money will be available to pay claims and how it might be awarded and disbursed remains to be finalized, too. But he is a skilled political infighter who has often shown a talent for making the most out of whatever hand he is dealt. Mr. Chalabi also maintains close ties with key political allies of Mr. Maliki such as radical Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, which gives him extra sway within Mr. Maliki's government. Indeed, U.S. Embassy officials suggest Mr. Chalabi's closeness to Mr. Sadr is a major reason he was offered the liaison post.

Baghdad so we can later claim, "Aha, Iranian influence!"

:wtf:

today. He's going to be the liason between the Iraqi people and the Government?

Shit, everyday it's something weirder than more disgusting than the day before.

but it was what Bush/Cheney wanted to hear.

Chalabi gets his reward.

Liason? He'll be the public face of government to the Iraqi people. Can't do better than that if you want to cobble together popular support for your political aspirations. Dollars to donuts his first new best friends will be the militia leader.

Wow, another stellar idea from the House of Bush. Just the guy you want in charge of a budget.

:banghead: :grr: :nuke:

These people are just sick.

So nice to see old friends reconcile. Chalabi sits right behind Pickles at the State of the Whatever speech, but then just a few months later, Little Lord Pissypants can't remember his name. And now here he is, back in the saddle again, back where a friend is someone who pays you a lot of money for an ill-defined unquantifiable task.

he stole from that Jordanian bank.

And send it off to Iraq. The absconding of twelve billion was just so damn easy no one should even blink at twenty billion as well. I am sure it would all go to the same good place the previous twelve billion went..:shrug:

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

Here's the kicker:



Any bets on how much of that monehy will find its way to the Iraqis to "arrange reimbursement for damage" rather than into Chalabi's waiting pockets?