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Ahmed Chalabi, a con artist who spent a decade convincing America’s foreign policy establishment to topple a dictator so the Chalabi family could resume extracting their home nation’s wealth, died of a heart attack today, about 15 years too late. If you haven’t read it in a while (or at all), now is a good time to revisit Jane Mayer’s 2004 account of how long and how hard Chalabi worked to make regime change in Iraq the main foreign policy priority of a bunch of deeply stupid but powerful people, who grew to believe, despite of the overwhelming amount of evidence to the contrary, that the deeply unscrupulous exile could be a credible leader of a secular and democratic Iraq.
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So it really was about oil
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Was there ever any doubt?Originally posted by giblets View PostSo it really was about oilLibraries are state sanctioned, so they're technically engaged in privateering. - Felch
I thought we're trying to have a serious discussion? It says serious in the thread title!- Al. B. SureComment
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Sava believing in fairy tales.
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La RochefoucauldComment
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You can only burn in hell if you believe...
There's nothing wrong with the dream, my friend, the problem lies with the dreamer.Comment
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Uncle Sparky has big man-boobs.Order of the Fly
Those that cannot curse, cannot heal.Comment
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