Today's Bush outrage, "on this date in history"

 Nov 14th ...

"He that lies down with Dogs, shall rise up with fleas."
Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1733

2005: Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld meet today with Ahmad Chalabi. Pre-invasion, Chalabi led an anti-Saddam group that has been accused by various sources of providing false information to an eager Bush administration happy to hear the worst about Saddam and Iraq. State Dept. Intelligence expert Greg Thielmann said, "There was considerable skepticism throughout the intelligence community about the reliability of Chalabi's sources". Yet, says Thielmann, Chalabi's reports were sent "straight to the President".

How could this man Chalabi become such a key resource to the Bush administration in its buildup to war? In 1992 the country of Jordan convicted Chalabi of embezzling. After the Iraq invasion, Chalabi would be accused of running an Iraq counterfeiting operation. Worse, he would become the subject of an FBI investigation for allegedly tipping off Iran that the U.S. had broken their encryption code.

President Bush, he sure knows how to pick them. When deciding if America should risk the lives of U.S. troops by invading Iraq, is it not comforting that the president’s administration would base that decision, in part, on information supplied by someone of such high moral character as Mr. Ahmad Chalabi? So eager were Bush, Cheney and the rest of them to hear what they wanted to hear, they provide this disreputable man with a captive audience. U.S. troops and U.S. taxpayers were, and are, paying the price.

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