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Onion Ready: WaPo Urges U.S. Stay In Iraq To Keep Chalabi Out

By Big Tent Democrat

Via Atrios and Sadly, No!, WaPo Deputy Editorial Page Editor Jackson Diehl writes:

Tehran's leading agent [in Iraq] is Ahmed Chalabi, a Shiite who in 2002 played a major role in persuading the Bush administration to go to war. Now he has managed to have hundreds of candidates eliminated from the election on the mostly bogus grounds that they were or are loyalists of Saddam Hussein's Baath party. His targets are not just Sunni leaders but secular nationalists -- the two most important banned candidates are leading members of cross-sectarian alliances. The success of those tickets would be a triumph for Iraqi democracy -- and a huge setback for Iran.

Chalabi aims to become prime minister of the next government, which would be a disaster for Iraq and for Washington.

(Emphasis supplied.) Joseph Heller described the world and we live in the same endless loop. For those of you who forgot who Chalabi is.

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Full post as published by TalkLeft on February 22, 2010 (boomark / email).