Was Bush Suckered into Iraq by Iran? thru Achmed Chalabi, the WMD threat "insider expert" who was an Agent for Iranians,
by Rob Kall
The neocon idiots George W. Bush chose to run our military (I used to call them nincompoops, but that's too kind and not strong enough,) the ones who brought us the WMD threat and assurances that Saddam was the ultimate terrorist threat, depended upon Achmed Chalabi for their info.
Now we discover that Chalabi and his arm of the Iraqi congress were used as a front to pass disinformation from the Iranians.
Further, Andrew Cockburn, of Counterpunch, reports that Chalabi has been preparing a coup to take down the interim government that the US and UN are working at establishing. Cockburn reports,
"US disenchantment with the man who has received $27 million of taxpayers' money in recent years has been gathering pace in recent months. "You can piss on Chalabi" President Bush remarked to Jordan's King Abdullah some months ago. "Ahmed is on good terms with many people," a senior Iraqi politician told me waspishly, "and on bad terms with a great many more.""
Chalabi had been on track to become one of if not the leading candidates to rule Iraq, which we covered in our article, by Jesse Lee The Chalabi Time Bomb. The article reported:
