Chalabi

I've been really holding back on writing about Chalabi, because the more I read, frankly the more tortuous and involved the whole story behind him becomes. So I'm just going to link to this story in The New Yorker, and leave it at that for now. (Also, a link to Joshuah Micah Marshall, who's the main source of showing me how complicated the story really is.) The short of it is, the man is bad, bad news, and has been bad news for years, and the idea that he was the source of intel for the hawks that pushed for Iraq says, as far as I'm concerned, everything one needs to know about the (in)competence of the men that Bush has allowed to run the Defense Department over the span of his administration. For this atrocity alone, any sane electorate would immediately vote this man and his misguided cronies out of office.