DISQUS

dichiara · 1 year ago

Its Iranian not Irani.

hopelesspedant · 1 year ago

Such complications arise - yes, any Bushco who was duped by this should be exposed and villified.

But knowing how this cabal operates, if it gains traction, won't they embrace it as yet another reason that Iran is evil and needs to be attacked?

You know they will, and I am having a hard to formulating how Obama would respond to that (if he does at all).

hopelesspedant · 1 year ago

To amplify my point, McCain would take this and run with it as a way to distance himself from Bush, paint Iran as a country to be confronted, and try to back Obama into a corner.

BLOGGING BITCH! · 1 year ago

Republicans were never curious about the spy found in Cheney's office or how he shot a man in the face when he clearly had no hunting permit.

It's along the same lines as the GOP having the House and Senate for 12 years and never holding a vote to ban abortion.


OH! Obama makes the DNC return $100,000:

http://dubyad40.com/

JamesR · 1 year ago

It's Open Season on Lawyers in Texas (No permit, stamp, or license required.)

tbhull · 1 year ago

Now we must attack Iran because we were lied to on Iraq.

nsr · 1 year ago

Googled "chalabi iran agent". 270,000 hits. Here's a story from The Guardian, before they shut down the investigation. Chalabi was passing our info to the Iranians, and telling the "grownups" in the White House and Pentagon what they wanted to hear.

RenoAnne · 1 year ago

We need to fight them over there so... oh... CRAP!

unrepentant_expat · 1 year ago

Any 'intelligence' they may have stolen from this administration will probably do them much more harm than good.

tofubo · 1 year ago

congress !!

get invovled ??

before or after they go after the broderian 'policy disputes' found in the phase2 report ??

Upland_Oddball · 1 year ago

We all know the identity of one such agent: the Hot-Tub Buddy of the Neo-Cons and Cheney: Ahmed Chalibi. His close ties go back years before 2003.

Eleanore · 1 year ago

Wow. This could have been written by le Carre. I hope there's a way to get this investigated.

JamesR · 1 year ago

Besides investigation being stopped YEARS OF E-Mail have been outsourced and destroyed. Illegally. Impeachably. TREASONOUSLY.

Covering this up, and God knows what else up.

Never thought I'd LONG for the days of only an 18 minute gap, covering only simple domestic shenanigans...

MotorCityBadBoy · 1 year ago

WTF!?! What is it about impeachment that the Dems don't understand?

JamesR · 1 year ago

Impeachment MUST be introduced against Bush - that way he cannot pardon his co-conspirators and a proper investigation can be done and evidence can be found, if it still exists...

hopelesspedant · 1 year ago

He could pardon until the moment he is removed by the Senate, so unfortunately it is no solution for that problem.

JamesR · 1 year ago

My understanding is that once articles of impeachment are introduced the president then cannot pardon those who would be involved in his crime. That is his one limitation of the power to pardon. It is a method by which evidence can be discovered and testimony can be compelled, and even if it means "Justice" my be avoided ultimately, as may happen with the exact impeachment process itself, it will mean that we could find out more of what the hell has gone on in our country, and would prove to the blind and the naysayers what has really been going on.

sib · 1 year ago

This is not new. It was reported by Sye Hersh few years ago. But the thing is, whoever in the Bush administration warned about this and had his or her doubts was sacked.

OleHippieChick · 1 year ago

Well, it's just a smorgasbord of treason with bu$hCo, isn't it.

Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago

Rumsfeld can't be wrong; just because he's Rumsfeld.

See?

DCinDC · 1 year ago

This is really bad. It means that the United States was duped into a war to promote Iran and its influence in the ME. A third world country manipulated the United States to promote its foreign policy goals.

Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago

If I remember correctly, Chalibi has a Doctorate in Mathematics and is wanted for Bank Theft in Jordan. A very clever boy.

ucsbclassics53 · 1 year ago

This just proves that McClatchy is the only print news source we can trust...

ucsbclassics53 · 1 year ago

I mean compared to the AP and Reuters and such...

JamesR · 1 year ago

McClatchy was the ONLY news organ that questioned the Uranium-tubes-bullshit and find (publish stuff about) the Downing Street Memo I believe. They have frequently been alone in their coverage, but independent and RIGHT. I believe there's a documentary somewhere, might be PBS, dunno, about that featuring the reporters there and their experience. Hard to find fast though with Google as a news service has zillions of pages with their own name as tags. But they are honorable. At least ONE regular major news service is.

avahome · 1 year ago

So why did the boys play with Chalabi until very recently? Was he a double agent or what?

Rob Mule · 1 year ago

Google "Abdurahman Alamoudi" and "Grover Norquist"...
Anyone remember the Norquist/Frank Gaffney slap-fight of 2003?

http://planetsean.blogspot.com/2003/10/though-y...

http://planetsean.blogspot.com/2003/10/grovers-...

FuzzyandBlue · 1 year ago

Whoa...whoa...whoa!
I thought it was the aluminum tubes...
Or the yellowcake from Niger...
Wasn't it all the fault of Curveball?...
But Greenspan told us it was really for oil...
Remember Colin Powell's hoax w/ those "mobile biological weapons laboratories"?...
And who could forget Condi rice's scary-ass "smoking gun mushroom cloud"?
Now we find out that Iran somehow duped us with our eyes wide SHUT?
Jeeeze louise.
They just don't make lying, murdering, criminal bosses like they used to, eh?

Sincerely,

Rose Mary Woods

bumpkis · 1 year ago

Ledeen was duped? Yeah right. Get it right...our intel agencies have been infiltrated by Israeli zionists...OSP...Feith...Wolfowitz?? Iranians my ass.

jr · 1 year ago

Republican marks being markish

mirth · 1 year ago

I agree that McClatchy is a premiere news source and their coverage of Iraq especially continues to be outstanding. Somehow a link to it got lost in all my bookmarks, so I'm glad to be reminded.

ComradeRutherford · 1 year ago

Chalabi is definitely an Iranian agent. Rove ordered Acting-President Bush to do whatever Chalabi said, and so the US invaded Iraq on the orders of Iran.

Now Iran is an ascending power in the region and American has lost every shred of credibility in the world. The Republican Party intentionally destroyed America's post-WWII leadership on the world stage. When Acting-President Bush took office they announced that the US was done being a leader and was now a thug dictator state that kidnaps and tortures innocent people for fun.

The Bush Administration has committed worse war crimes that the Nazi invasion of Poland, at least that was for conquest. America's war on the people of Iraq has but one motivation: war profiteering. Handing trillions of dollars in fiscally irresponsible future debt to KBR, Halliburton and Blackwater, without their even having to DO anything to fulfill the 'contract'.

The GOP airlifted pallet-loads of US cash into Iraq and it has disappeared. How is it possible that the GOP has any support? The Corporate controlled media is the culprit.

bumpkis · 1 year ago

Chalabi is definitely an Iranian agent. Rove ordered Acting-President Bush to do whatever Chalabi said, and so the US invaded Iraq on the orders of Iran.
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This is snark right?

ComradeRutherford · 1 year ago

No, Chalabi is an agent of Iran, tasked with tricking the US into weakening itself by invading Iraq. Due to the incompetence of the entire GOP leadership and their blind hatred for all life on the planet, they eagerly suppressed that knowledge and gleefully did everything he said wihtout question because he told Bush exactly what they WANTED to hear.

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ite...

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/...

The US has known for a while that Chalabi was an Iranian agent, but the Bush Admin decided to ignore that, since it didn't fit into the 'reality' that were creating.

If there was any justice in America, the entire Bush Administration would have been impeached and handed over to the Hague for war crimes tribunals before 2006. But as we all see with our own eyes, Republicans are above all law...

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

That's going to be a hell of a movie someday.

The Iranians con a simple-minded president and his mentally unstable vice president into a war with its arch enemy.

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

I believe it. While the rest of us on the progressive left were screaming for them to fight the real war on terror, Bu$hco. did Iran's bidding.

Now when it comes to the question did Iranian intelligence infiltrate the Bush Administration, I'm almost relieved some kind of intelligence infiltrated them, even if it WAS a foreign intelligence. (snark)

questionauthority · 1 year ago

"Did Iranian intelligence infiltrate highest levels of Bush administration?"

Are you kidding me? Who sat right behind Laura Bush at the 2003 State of the Union Address? Can you say A-H-M-E-D C-H-A-L-A-B-I !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why John Kerry didn't hammer on this and shout it from the mountain tops during the 2004 campaign, I may never understand.
Just one more astounding mystery of how the tyranny of GW Bogus & the Lie Factory was able to perpetrate fascism in the name of patriotism.

At this point, it so blatantly obvious just how evil GW Bogus & the Lie Factory are, and just how horrible their policies have performed, the question isn't so much any more what they're doing, or have done wrong; but simply why and how does it still go on? I mean this is freaking light years beyond anything Nixon did. It is literally frightening that that seemingly nothing much is being done to actually stop the madness.

OBAMA, OH-EIGHT, OR ELSE!

JamesR · 1 year ago

Kerry couldn't find his balls with a flashlight and a Gold plated ball detector. Obama never lost his.

questionauthority · 1 year ago

I really liked Kerry. He did get 50% of the vote. That' nothing to take lightly; considering the extent of GW Bogus's & the Lie Factory's propaganda machine. I do think Kerry could have done better calling Bush out though. I'm not convinced the 1% that won it for GW Bogus was legitimate. I believe it was just a nice, tidy Diebold moment.

You're right about Obama. After beating Hillary, McSame will be paper mache!

JamesR · 1 year ago

I held my nose and voted for Kerry, and I directed all doubters to kerryhatersforkerry.com and kept intoning "Supreme Court" to them. I learned long ago that if I could vote for Michael Dukakis I could vote for anyone if need be. And there WAS a need. However, while there were positive virtues of Kerry all by himself, notwithstanding his complete superiority to Bush in that contest, he DID allow himself to get swiftboated, and he DID receive more votes in Ohio and did not contest it. - I honestly do not know how he could possibly think, even then, that the 'damage' or 'crisis' he would cause by revealing how failed our election process was would be in any way worse than a second Bush Term. Especially when he had express warning that the same strategy used four years before in Florida was going to be used again, in Ohio. It was. Kerry won the real vote. He did not fight for himself and our Republic for some flawed reason. The entire World has suffered for his flaws.

If you want hard evidence start with Bradblog.com and sift the archives, and get a stiff drink or prescription mood stabilizer if you need such things 'cause it's a bumpy read.

questionauthority · 1 year ago

Pretty much spot on, JamesR. Although I was/am just as dismayed as you with Kerry not contesting the vote; I'm inclined to think he was attempting to run a "cleaner" campaign (or at least give that impression) in his dealing with the swiftboating. Who knows, It may have set a precedent that may have helped Obama's success over Hillary, and eventually over McSame.

I do not hold Kerry responsible, however, for anything that has occurred during the second term of GW Bogus & the Lie Factory. Any and all of the grief and misery belongs to the Bogus Administration alone and forever! I can say though, at this point I'm beginning to see the 110th Congress as an enabler of the Bogus Administration.

ComradeRutherford · 1 year ago

Yes, Chalabi is an Iranian agent, tasked with tricking the US into invading Iraq.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/...

paulbe · 1 year ago

Ghorbanifar is well known as a Mossad double agent, and the article names such dual citizen pillars of honesty as Larry Franklin and Michael Ledeen, then goes off on this bizarre Iran tangent. Substitute the word Israel for Iran and the piece begins to make sense..