Pandagon: Well, Ed, I Did Not Know That

February 23, 2004

Well, Ed, I Did Not Know That

We're still paying Chalabi and the Iraqi National Congress. Given that they did such a good job before the war, it's well deserved.

"We are heroes in error," Chalabi was quoted as saying recently in Baghdad by The Daily Telegraph of London. "As far as we're concerned we've been entirely successful. That tyrant Saddam is gone and the Americans are in Baghdad. What was said before is not important. The Bush administration is looking for a scapegoat. We're ready to fall on our swords if he wants."

It's not so much a "scapegoat" as a "realization that you told the American government a bunch of stuff that had no basis in reality for the purpose of getting your desired military/political outcome". Slight difference...but important.

And Bush will make Chalabi fall on his sword just about as soon as he incorporates the phrase "we were wrong" into any aspect of his stump speech. Even that part that talks about predicting the Panthers in the Super Bowl.

Posted by Jesse Taylor at February 23, 2004 01:26 PM | TrackBack

Comments

We wouldn't need to make Ahmed do anything so drastic as falling on a sword. Handing him over to Jordan to serve his 34-year sentence of hard labor would be fine, and probably make us some friends to boot.

Posted by: QuickSauce at February 23, 2004 05:36 PM