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04/23/2004 Archived Entry: "Somebody's not happy...."
Somebody's not happy...
Looks like Ahmed Chalabi doesn't like the idea of bringing Baathists back into the government. Probably because they know what a crook the guy is.
A U.S. policy shift that may allow former Baathists join a new Iraqi government was akin to putting back Nazis in charge of Germany, Governing Council member Ahmad Chalabi said on Friday."This policy will create major problems in the transition to democracy, endanger any government put together by U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi and cause it to fall after June 30," Chalabi told Reuters.
He spoke after the White House announced an overhaul of the "de-Baathification" policy, which may let some former members join an interim government being put together by the United Nations ahead of a planned June 30 transfer of power.
"This is like allowing Nazis into the German government immediately after World War II," added Chalabi, who heads a council committee specifically dedicated to keeping the upper ranks of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party out of office.
Let me go on the record here as saying Chalabi's right in this instance - it is a pretty hare-brained scheme. But nonetheless, it's fun watching the little crook squirm.
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im sure glad im not living in iraq (for so many reasons actually). deciding between chalabi and baathists has to be a though choice.
Posted by justin @ 04/23/2004 10:36 AM NY
How incompetent is Bush at foreign policy?
Iraq's neighbors are mad at him.
The people he "liberated" are mad at him.
And now, his little wooden puppet is mad at him.
Posted by George Johnston @ 04/23/2004 11:01 AM NY
Look, despite all of Bush's failures, he is still supported by a majority of the voters. Get ready for four more years of this stuff, then eight years of Jeb.
Posted by ted bell @ 04/23/2004 11:40 AM NY
the voters do what they are told, and dont really make any difference anymore anyway. anyone who thinks this is still a democracy is living in one hell of a bubble.
Posted by justin @ 04/23/2004 11:43 AM NY
WAIT!!! STOP THE PRESSES!!! someone IMPORTANT has died in iraq. i dont just mean some poor kid who bought the lie about free college, this guy was a football player... i think CNN has spent more time on this death than all other 600 combined, and the story just broke a couple of hours ago.
now dont get all self righteous at me. its tragic that anyone has to die for this obscenity they are calling a war. Im just saying that in the grand scheme of things, i feel a lot more sympathy towards some poor kid who had to chose between the army and college, or poverty and most likely prison back in the ghetto or the former factory town, or whatever underdeveloped area they call home, than i do for some rich guy who had a nervous breakdown after 9/11 and got swept up in the jingoistic bloodlust. both deaths are tragic, but only one was caused by the governments war againt the poor, which is really what everything boils down to. T.he W.ar A.gainst T.errorism, is just our government extending its war against the poor here, to include the poor abroad. just like the drug war before it, and reagonomics... how do people not see this?
Posted by justin @ 04/23/2004 11:56 AM NY
it has largely to do with the herd mentality mixed with people's desire to believe that at the core the goverment is really trying to protect us/do the right thing. Not justifuing it by any means, just offering an insight to a large portion of people in the US don't seem to get it. There is of course the possibility that I am giving people too much credit as well. Maybe they just don't give a fuck as long as they can keep their gun, and get a $300 check.
Posted by djdissent @ 04/23/2004 12:02 PM NY
Justin - I don't have the TV on. Who died?
Posted by editor @ 04/23/2004 12:11 PM NY
i dont remember his name, its that football player who gave up a 3.6 million dollar contract with the NFL to join the army rangers after 9/11, wait i just looked it up, his name was Pat Tillman, and i was wrong, he died in afghanistan. sucks either way though
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/23/terror/main613370.shtml
Posted by justin @ 04/23/2004 12:17 PM NY
I blogged on Pat Tillman's death. See http://liberalmediaconspiracy.blogspot.com
Saw him play at Az State. He was a free spirit, independent, wore his hair VERY long at ASU so that it was easy to spot him, he was the guy with the hair flowing out from under his helmet.
His was a quiet, facta non dicta patriotism. Contrast that with the xenophobic, jingoistic, wrap-yourself-in-the-flag crap foisted on us by country music artists, politicians, and chickenshit warbloggers.
Sadly, the Fortunate Chimp will probably come here (Arizona) to exploit his death - er, commemorate his sacrifice, since AZ is a swing state this year. Which would be the ultimate obscenity considering what Chimpy did when HIS country called.
Posted by renato @ 04/23/2004 01:17 PM NY
Ooh, renato, I hadn't thought about that possibility. Bet they're tearing their heir out at the WH about now doing cost/benefit analyses--would going to ONE funeral (just coincidentally a famous one, and who died in Afghanistan rather than the qWagmire) take some of the heat off? Or would it piss off everybody else who is NOT famous whose funeral he DOESN"T go to?
Sure hope Bill Richardson goes though, if the family is cool with it.
--ps after looking at this in Preview I have to say that was a totally unintended/Freudian typo about "tearing their heir out" but upon reflection I ain't a-gonna change it. I shall be of strong will, and stay the course. :)
Posted by Xan @ 04/23/2004 01:35 PM NY
