Most Neocons not ready to throw Chalabi from the train

[BaliBabyDoc]

NYT

Last Saturday, several of these Chalabi supporters said, a small delegation of them marched into the West Wing office of Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, to complain about the administration's abrupt change of heart about Mr. Chalabi and to register their concerns about the course of the war in Iraq. The group included Richard N. Perle, the former chairman of a Pentagon advisory group, and R. James Woolsey, director of central intelligence under President Bill Clinton.

It's difficult to understand how Woolsey's CIA liked Chalabi and Tenet's CIA loathed him.

"There is a smear campaign under way, and it is being perpetrated by the C.I.A. and the D.I.A. and a gaggle of former intelligence officers who have succeeded in planting these stories, which are accepted with hardly any scrutiny," Mr. Perle, a leading conservative, said in an interview.

Pot . . . kettle . . .

 

[Zebo]

It's difficult to understand how Woolsey's CIA liked Chalabi and Tenet's CIA loathed him.
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Not when thier tring to protect themselves from treason charges. If Chalibi goes down, the evidence used to bring him down will be the information these guys illegaly provided to him. There's a pretty massive investigation unerway right now. http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1225600,00.html

 

[zephyrprime]

I'ts none of the above. Chalabi conned the neocons and the neocons are still too stupid to realize it! The Bush administration was already ditching him so he hitched his horse to the only people that would have him - the Iranians.

 

[conjur]

Where's the option for C&D?

 

[BaliBabyDoc]

Originally posted by: conjur
Where's the option for C&D?

I'm trying to go easy on the President . . . he's having a bad three years so I figure why kick a guy while he's down . . .

 

[Jhhnn]

Apparently, some of the Neocons don't recognize the urgent need for a scapegoat.

Chalabi is obviously expendable- He hasn't been effective in the assigned role. Iraqis have no use for him, but the Jordanians would like to have him, seeing as how he's a convicted swindler in that country...

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: BaliBabyDoc

Originally posted by: conjur
Where's the option for C&D?

I'm trying to go easy on the President . . . he's having a bad three years so I figure why kick a guy while he's down . . .

I've always believed in honesty and full disclosure.