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January 02, 2006

The world's greatest "feet-lander".

I can't quite understand how Ahmad Chalabi always seems to land on his feet:

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's oil minister said Monday he resigned after the government last week gave him a forced vacation and replaced him with Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi following criticism about fuel price increases.

The Jordanians have convicted Chalabi of bank fraud.

He's cozied up to the neoconservative wing of the GOP..whose foreign policy has pretty much wrecked the US' reputation abroad.

He is one of the key figures in the Iraqi National Congress who lulled Team Bush into the WMD intelligence fiasco with Iraq.

Chalabi turned over US state secrets to Iran.

This guy has built up the kind of lousy karma that other bad guys can only dream about. But he continues to worm his way into places. The string pullers in the Bush Administration keep giving this guy opportunity after opportunity to screw people over.

The greatest predictor of future events is the past. Given Chalabi's quite shady history, he must have some hot and juicies on the neocon/Bush people. Or he's got access to something else that they really want.

Chalabi is definitely pulling the oil strings now. Or at least he has a hand in it.

How long it will take him to screw over the Iraqi people and/or the US is anyone's guess. But I doubt it will be long.

Posted by Carla at January 2, 2006 03:53 PM