Chalabi will be the new Saddam in a privatised Iraq

[jonoboy]

Best-Laid Plans

By Chris Floyd

12/19/03: (Moscow Times) One of the constant refrains we hear from the malcontents carping about George W. Bush's triumphant crusade in Iraq is the charge -- the canard -- that the president and his crack team of advisers "had no plan" for the post-war period, that they've stumbled from crisis to crisis, changing policies without rhyme or reason, or have even "plunged off a cliff," as erstwhile war-hawk Newt Gingrich declared last week


http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5400.htm

[whathappened]

1. well looks like jr.

has steped in it again on this one , just like he has done his whole life

[acmavm]

2. Dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=103&topic_id=26780

[Aidoneus]

3. Not quite the "Saddam"

While somewhat brutishly, Saddam ruled through playing off nationalist/pan-nationalist feelings, which provided a decent leg of support in addition to the other things. Chalabi cannot run on this platform. There's another figure from Iraqi history that he more resembles (even in appearance), and he was Britain's puppet dictator of Iraq in the period of their occupation and rape of the country. Hopefully the revolution to depose Nuri al-Said II will not be spread across 30yrs like the last time.