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Tue Nov 3, 2015, 08:25 PM

Ahmed Chalabi is DEAD

Sometimes a person dies and the news of it makes me breathe a sigh of relief that a devil incarnate has exited the building.

I bring you news of the death of Ahmed Chalabi!

Ahmed Chalabi, Chief Peddler of False Iraq WMD Intelligence, Dies at 71

Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi, who played a key role in pushing for the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, has died at the age of 71. Chalabi was the former head of the Iraqi National Congress, a CIA-funded Iraqi exile group that helped drum up pre-war claims that Saddam Hussein was developing weapons of mass destruction and had links to al-Qaeda. Chalabi provided bogus intelligence to the Bush administration, U.S. lawmakers and journalists.

Democracy Now! closely covered the rise and fall of Chalabi over the past 15 years.

Highlights from past coverage:

http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2015/11/3/ahmed_chalabi_chief_peddler_of_false

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Pastiche423 Nov 2015 #4
FlatBaroque Nov 2015 #5

Response to FlatBaroque (Original post)

Tue Nov 3, 2015, 08:40 PM

1. There is another one still alive. Curveball.

Rafid Ahmed Alwan

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Response to FlatBaroque (Original post)

Tue Nov 3, 2015, 08:43 PM

2. A small net gain for the planet.

 

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Response to FlatBaroque (Original post)

Tue Nov 3, 2015, 08:53 PM

3. I wonder who from the Bush family or Bush administration will attend

his funeral?
Shrub?
Cheney?

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Response to FlatBaroque (Original post)

Wed Nov 4, 2015, 03:30 AM

4. Din't he attend one of W's

State of the Union address?

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Response to Pastiche423 (Reply #4)

Wed Nov 4, 2015, 09:28 AM

5. He did indeed

But my favorite memory of Ahmed is his descending from a black hawk chopper in Baghdad with his black t-shirt on as the conquering warrior of Mesopotamia. What a piece of shit.

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