Thursday, May 20, 2004

I guess this means they don't like him anymore

The US raids the house of Chalabi. Both Kevin Drum and Josh Marshall give plenty of good analysis of this, leading to the good analysis of yet others. But what I found particularly amusing was this quote from an article in Salon by Andrew Cockburn:

U.S. disenchantment with Chalabi has been growing since it dawned on the White House and the Pentagon that everything he had told them about Iraq -- from Saddam Hussein's fiendish weapons arsenal to the crowds who would toss flowers at the invaders to Chalabi's own popularity in Iraq -- had been completely false. Some months ago King Abdullah of Jordan was surprised to be informed by President Bush that the king could "piss on Chalabi."


Nothing like Our Fearless Leader at an unguarded moment...

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