[lbo-talk] fries with your new gov-on-a-stick?

[H. Curtiss Leung]

And never mind that Chalabi was convicted of money laundering _in absentia_ in 
a Jordanian court.  Got a 22 year sentence:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/not_in_website/syndication/monitoring/media_reports/2291649.stm


> 
> Never mind that the Iraqi National Congress is one of six opposition
> coalitions in exile. Never mind that its leader, Ahmed Chalabi, left Iraq
> the same year the Dodgers left Brooklyn. Never mind that Chalabi is bitterly
> opposed by the other exile groups, and that his standing in-country is all
> but undetectable. What matters is that he's a longtime friend and associate
> of such leading defense neocons as Richard Perle and James Woolsey, who
> apparently loom large in the Iraqi electoral college being drawn up in the
> Pentagon.
>