The Garage Is Open

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Why do we let Chalabi get away with this?

Council member Ahmad Chalabi said terrorists are using the insurgent Sunni stronghold of Fallujah, where U.S. Marines stopped patrols last month and allowed an Iraqi security force to oversee security, to prepare car bombs like the one that killed Saleem.

“The terrorists are free to roam around and they have been given sanctuary in Fallujah,” Chalabi said. “The garage is open and car bombs are coming repeatedly.”

Clearly, at this point, the origin of the car bomb that killed the head of the Iraqi Governing Council Abdel-Zahraa Othman, also known as Izzadine Saleem, is still under investigation. So to even hint that it came from Fallujah, or to use this attack as a platform for such blathering really gets on my nerves. This kind of opportunistic, passive-aggressive swipe tells me all I need to know about Chalabi and the kind of leader he would be. It also reinforces for me why the US needs to slap him upside the head, along with the fools over here who ever listened to him in the first place.

We, as Americans, as the ones paying for this grand experiment in social engineering, are being asked constantly to get behind the effort to bring stability to Iraq, to stop second guessing the DoD’s every move. It seems that’s the least we could expect from the whiny, petty gangster we’re giving a leg up in the race to become Iraq’s next authoritarian ogre.

9 thoughts on “The Garage Is Open”

  1. I’m no fan of Chalabi’s. But doesn’t it strike you as strange that the Iraqis criticize him because he’s a creature of the U. S. and you criticize him because he isn’t?

  2. “…along with the fools over here who ever listened to him in the first place.”
    But that would be …EVERYONE!
    You would need an infinite number of Moe Howards slapping fools every minute of every day of every year from now until some time in the infinite future to accomplish this task. Even contracting out the slapping to the private sector wouldn’t help. Mainly because Chalabi would own the slapping company.
    Slaps upside the head are the very least that are required.

  3. But doesn’t it strike you as strange that the Iraqis criticize him because he’s a creature of the U. S. and you criticize him because he isn’t?
    Actually, I criticize us because he isn’t. How imcompetent is that?
    Slaps upside the head are the very least that are required.
    Yeah a few good nose twistings and eye pokes are in order as well.

  4. I criticize Chalabi for being a liar and an a**hole.
    The reason nobody trusts him is because he talks out of both sides of his mouth, only not very smoothly.
    If this kind of divisive rhetoric is “leadership,” I need to get a new dictionary.

  5. In 20/20 hindsight, the administration’s trust in Chalabi should have been a huge, scarlet warning light screaming out that the Bush League just wasn’t up to the task of rebuilding Iraq.
    Or tying their own shoes without help.

  6. “Slap upside the head?
    Yeah… that’s the ticket….
    Followed up by a quick one-way trip to Jordan, with a dossier of evidence on his bank frauds jammed in his pocket…..
    When the history of the US’ involvement in Iraq is (eventually) written, I predict that one of the major unresolved questions will be that of exactly why the United States put so much faith in fronting a dubious character like Chalabi: with the looks of a shady French art dealer (but lower ethical standards) as the “Iraqi George Washington”.

  7. “Slap upside the head?
    Yeah… that’s the ticket….
    Followed up by a quick one-way trip to Jordan, with a dossier of evidence on his bank frauds jammed in his pocket…..
    When the history of the US’ involvement in Iraq is (eventually) written, I predict that one of the major unresolved questions will be that of exactly why the United States put so much faith in fronting a dubious character like Chalabi: with the looks of a shady French art dealer (but lower ethical standards) as the “Iraqi George Washington”.

  9. But doesn’t it strike you as strange that the Iraqis criticize him because he’s a creature of the U. S. and you criticize him because he isn’t?
    Not really. All it implies is that he’s a mercenary who’s only in it for himself.

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