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February 23, 2004
Ends, Means, and the Iraqi National Council
Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall
"As far as we're concerned we've been entirely successful. That tyrant Saddam is gone and the Americans are in Baghdad. What was said before is not important."
Those were the words last week of Ahmed Chalabi, head of the INC, member of the IGC, and central player in a scandal the scope of which Americans are only now beginning to grasp.
The "what was said before" that Chalabi is referring to, of course, are the numerous bogus claims about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction he peddled into American governmental channels over the last half dozen years and more.
After these words he was kind enough to say that "the Bush administration is looking for a scapegoat. We're ready to fall on our swords if he wants."
Marshall thinks we should be mad. At the very least, we should stop paying Chalabi money for bad intelligence.
Posted by glyphic at February 23, 2004 02:07 AM