My exact point, cookieless-d, Chalabi has no credible crendantials of being a man capable of runnin' Iraq or being able to stop the civil war that is going on there now...

I find it amazing the the US used him a source for their pre-war intellegence since the man hadn't lived their in over 20 years...

It is still my belief that had Bush II had wanted to reel Saddam back into the fold that all it would have taken is another gold plated M-16 ($2500), a jeweled sword ($2500) and a box of cigars ($200) and a visit from Rumsfeld... Yeah, Saddam was always eager to please the master... It's jus' when the master got a little pissy with him that his feelings would get hurt and he's be difficult...

BTW, I have asked the pro-war folks here how many folks Saddam was killin' per day in the year leadin' up to the invasion... Yeah, people love to throw around numbers but numbers can be very misleadin'...

Example: Saddam did stop an upriasing of the Kurds after Gulf I and, yeah, this was purdy nasty, especially since the US had promised the Kurds assisitence then rolled them under Saddam's bus... But if you take those numbers and roll them into the equation then, sure, Saddam waqs averagin' _______ deaths per day.... Handy little stat fir the hawks to throw out but l;ike how many folks did Saddam kill the Wednesday before the invasion of the Wednesday before that???

And how many Iraqi women, children and old folks did Bush kill the Wednesday after the inasion or the Wednesday after that???

This isn't just splitting hairs here... It is not a given that Saddam killed anyone the Wednesday before the invasion but it sho nuff is a given that Bush did the Wednesday after and probably every Wednesday since...

Plus, it is still my contention that Bush invaded Iraq, among other corporate interests fir thwe sole purpose of tryin' to win an election in '04 so Boss Hog coukld continue his raping and pillaging of America's working class...

And given the voter irregularities in Ohio, there's no proff that Bush actually won the '04 election unless theivery is okay in winning...

Bobert