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After embracing Chalabi as the potential leader of the new Iraq, we have discovered the ways in which he may have been working against us. Chalabi's disinformation helped persuade Bush to attack Iraq. I commend the President for his courage in disowning one who sat in the presidential box during the January 2004 State of the Union message. I don't envy the decisions our President has to make, but I admire his willingness to move beyond some of the earlier errors in this whole enterprise. WILLIAM A. MCCARTNEY Delaware, Ohio...
Could the timing of Chalabi's very public downfall be mere coincidence? It seems likely that the timing was determined by Bush's political handlers to make it appear that Chalabi and the Iraqi National Congress were to blame for drawing us into this ill-advised war. If that is their game, it will not work. Chalabi clearly had interests of his own to promote, but the Bush Administration was not without resources to verify the bogus information he provided. If it points to Chalabi as the source of our misfortune, the Administration will only reveal new depths of incompetence...
...left India on a Friday, attended his eldest daughter's wedding in Boston the next day, then flew to Washington and was at work on Monday. Among his first tasks was brushing back Pentagon hawks to secure White House control over running the occupation. By early 2003, when Ahmad Chalabi, the Pentagon's favored exile, tried to block the return to Baghdad of Brahimi, Blackwill cornered Chalabi in a room in one of the U.S. administrative buildings. While no one knows what words were exchanged at the meeting, Brahimi was invited back within a week and the U.S. soon...
...Ahmed Chalabi Though out of favor with the Pentagon, he still wields influence...
...ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Ahmed Chalabi...