Ahmad Chalabi: A Sleazebag Amongst Sleazebags

I am so glad that some of the Democrats seem to have found some balls lately. Check out this from Rep. George Miller:

Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. Madam Speaker, somebody ought to call the cops. Today I am not talking about collusion, corruption and cronyism and the leaking of sensitive classified information that has irreparably damaged the national security of the United States. No, I am not talking about Scooter Libby or Karl Rove, though their involvement in outing a female CIA agent to silence her husband's criticisms of the President's Iraq policy deserves closer scrutiny.

No, I am talking about another shadowy character and administration ally, someone whose deception played a large role in leading the United States into war in Iraq. I am talking about Ahmad Chalabi. Mr. Chalabi is the Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq's newly constituted government. But Mr. Chalabi also is a convicted bank swindler who, we now know, fed the Bush administration false intelligence about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction and capabilities and Iraq's ties to terrorism.

I guess the crooks and liars in this administration only know other crooks and liars, and that's who they can relate to. Here's a guy who helped set us up for one of the biggest debacles in our history (makes Viet Nam look like a well considered piece of foreign policy), who has ties to Iran (who we supposedly don't like a bunch, right?), and he's being feted by the administration.

After the administration discovered that Mr. Chalabi provided false intelligence, instead of investigating, the Department of Defense attempted to prop Mr. Chalabi up as a candidate of choice in the post-war Iraq.

Keep in mind what Mr. Chalabi did next. He was suspected of leaking classified information about U.S. intelligence capabilities to Iran. He was suspected of telling the Iranians that we had broken the code by which we were learning information about their activities.

Of course, once again the administration seems to feel such betrayal of security is no big deal. Isn't Karl Rove still in his position? AND Dick ("Go fuck yourself") Cheney?

Calling the cops to arrest Mr. Chalabi, while he is here, so he can be interrogated, would be a good beginning to understand how extensive the manipulation, how false the evidence was, that caused the President to take us to war and which was championed by the Vice President and the President and the cabal to try to justify to the American citizens the reason for this war.

Mr. Speaker, call the cops. Mr. Chalabi should not be allowed to run free on the streets of this Nation's capital.

Bravo, Rep. Miller. You have the cojones to tell it like it is. We need more talk like this, and some action as well. Keep this up and I might consider giving money to the Democratic Party again.