8, November 2015 Curveball
(Conned the Neocons)
Ahmed Chalabi, nicknamed ‘CURVEBALL’, by President George Bush’s, inner
circle, was an opportunist who well
understood that Bush and his close advisors, Cheney and Rumsfeld were desperate
to topple Saddam Hussein and were only looking for some ‘tangible proof’
to justify the 2003 invasion.
Chalabi was a
prosperous Iraqi Shia exile with a doctorate in knot theory from Chicago who
possessed a usual talent for spinning yarns. He made a fortune from a bank in
Jordan, but had to hide in the trunk of a car to escape Jordanian authorities
in hot pursuit who accused him of massive fraud. The Washington neocons,
regarded Chalabi as the quintessential influential Iraqi insider who could
bring his prodigious talents to convince a skeptical public that Saddam Hussein
was an imminent threat to the US. Chalabi was put on the CIA payroll and
mesmerized the neocons with his bogus stories of Saddam’s WMD’s. If the
invasion had gone well there is little doubt that Chalabi would have been
groomed as the next President. Eventually
he was exposed as a charlatan but managed to wiggle his way into influential
and lucrative positions in successive Iraqi governments. He died a rich and
free man, out of the clutches of Iraqi law enforcement. It’s hard to believe that one man could wreck such havoc on his own
country and the wider Middle East
A
sad epitaph to a brilliant but morally bankrupt man who was the architect of
his country’s demise.
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