Ahmad Chalabi Returns

Nearly every day some piece of information emerges which leads me to believe that GWB is really a fruitcake - his elevator does not go all the way to the top floor - he's a few watts short of a full lightbulb. The following is today's episode in "How The Idiot Mind Works."

IRAQ -- CHALABI REEMERGES AS 'IMPORTANT PART' OF PETRAEUS STRATEGY: Yesterday, McClatchy revealed that Ahmad Chalabi, the disgraced Iraqi politician who embellished reports of Iraq's WMDs to encourage an American attack, has "re-emerged as a central figure in the latest U.S. strategy for Iraq." As the new head of the services committee, charged with bringing electricity, health, and other services to Baghdad, Chalabi serves at "the heart of the surge plan." Col. Steven Boylan, spokesman for Gen. David Petraeus, heralded Chalabi as "an important part of the process." Chalabi became the darling of the Bush administration after "providing White House and Pentagon officials and journalists with a stream of bogus or exaggerated intelligence about Iraq's weapons programs and ties to terrorists." Since then, he has revealed U.S. intelligence secrets to Iran, "sabotaged" U.S.-backed de-Baathification reforms, allegedly engaged in a counterfeiting operation in Iraq, and was convicted of embezzlement.

From the Progress Report - 10/29/2007