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Played For Patsies

So as well as blindly following the “Crusader” scripts written for them by Bin Laden, Bush and the neoconned also apparently played right into the hands of Iran through Chalabi

“It’s pretty clear that Iranians had us for breakfast, lunch and dinner,” said an intelligence source in Washington yesterday. “Iranian intelligence has been manipulating the US for several years through Chalabi.” Larry Johnson, a former senior counter-terrorist official at the state department, said: “When the story ultimately comes out we’ll see that Iran has run one of the most masterful intelligence operations in history. They persuaded the US and Britain to dispose of its greatest enemy.” … An intelligence source in Washington said the FBI investigation into the affair would begin with Mr Chalabi’s “handlers” in the Pentagon, who include William Luti, the former head of the office of special plans, and his immediate superior, Douglas Feith.

Earlier here and here.

The Good Stuff

Delivering blankets and food to refugees at Dwamanda in the south, Lieutenant Reid Finn had no hesitation in telling journalists: “It’s simple. The more they help us find the bad guys, the more good stuff they get.” Teena Roberts, the head of Christian Aid’s mission in [Afghanistan] said: “The result of this is aid workers have become targets. I have not come across the use of aid in this way before.”

Mea Sorta Culpa

The New York Times was one of the major cheerleaders for an invasion of Iraq – frequently citing the most unbelievably bogus stories about Iraqi WMDs or Al Qaida links as fact. Many of these fables seem to have come straight from Ahmed Chalabi or Dick Cheney’s office via their “ace” reporter Judith Miller. Anyway, the Times has finally got around to announcing, rather sheepishly, that pretty much everything of significance that the Times reported over the last two years about Iraq was wrong, incorrect, or plain fabricated. That so many of the “best” media in the US fell into lockstep with such a manifestly corrupt war agenda says volumes about the state of public discourse in the US.