Josh Marshall reports on a WaPo article:
At the top of the list of those to get the heave-ho is Ahmed Chalabi.
According to the article, the administration is seriously considering cutting off the amazingly ill-conceived $340,000 a month subsidy we still give Chalabi. Meanwhile, his role as head of the de-Baathification committee has just been publicly criticized by Paul Bremer.
...As I said a while back (and not really in jest), the real question is whether we should take this man into custody now, while we are still the sovereign authority in the country, to ensure that he can be held to account for pocketing US taxpayer dollars and helping bamboozle the country into war with his phony intelligence findings.
According to the article, the administration is seriously considering cutting off the amazingly ill-conceived $340,000 a month subsidy we still give Chalabi. Meanwhile, his role as head of the de-Baathification committee has just been publicly criticized by Paul Bremer.
...As I said a while back (and not really in jest), the real question is whether we should take this man into custody now, while we are still the sovereign authority in the country, to ensure that he can be held to account for pocketing US taxpayer dollars and helping bamboozle the country into war with his phony intelligence findings.
Read Josh's analysis of the latest plan for governing Iraq here, and his conclusion:
But the bottom line seems clear: we've decided that the entire year-long experiment in building up the rudiments of a liberal Iraqi state have just been a wash and that it's best just to start over from scratch. And when you think about it, that's pretty terrible.
...And I suspect we're only at the start of hearing all manner of horror stories about what's really happened to much of the money we've poured into the place.
...And I suspect we're only at the start of hearing all manner of horror stories about what's really happened to much of the money we've poured into the place.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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