Thread: Scooter Indicted

If I'm not mistaken, Chalabi is back and in some position in the new government. Let me research.

This was from the BBC:


New Iraqi government members
The first democratically elected Iraqi government in 50 years was sworn in on 3 May.
Seven cabinet posts were initially left vacant as Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari sought a deal with Sunni Arabs.

One deputy prime ministerial post is still vacant, and is likely to be filled by a woman.




IBRAHIM JAAFARI: PRIME MINISTER

Ibrahim Jaafari, a 58-year-old physician, was spokesman for the Islamic Daawa Party, one of Iraq's oldest political parties. Born in Karbala in 1947, he was educated at Mosul university as a medical doctor. He lived in Iran and UK from the 1980s until the fall of Saddam Hussein.

When he was serving in the mainly ceremonial role of vice-president in the US-appointed interim regime, an opinion poll last year suggested Mr Jaafari was Iraq's most popular politician.

Mr Jaafari is widely seen as a unifying figure, keen to bring Sunni Arabs into the democratic fold after their widespread absence from election polling stations.


Profile: Ibrahim Jaafari

AHMED CHALABI: DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER

Ahmed Chalabi's appointment as a deputy prime minister is something of a revival for a man once touted at the Pentagon as a future president of Iraq, but who fell dramatically from grace.

During 2004 the Shia politician saw his home and offices raided and an arrest warrant issued amid accusations of counterfeiting.

Mr Chalabi, who had the ear of many in Washington during the run-up to war, fell out with his former patrons as the invasion of Iraq turned to messy occupation. There were whispers from Washington that Mr Chalabi, a Shia, had all along been duping the Americans by spying for the Iranians, which he has denied.

So he's back, but apparently the Iraqis like him and now WE don't. Funny.

See, we don't know anything about how Arabs interreact.

We need to leave Iraq and leave these people alone.

They will not fight each other if we leave.

They will unify.

Arabs have "merchant mentality".

They negotiate and leverage everything.

They are much different in their political thinking than US/ We want to know "what's the price". They say "I'll pay you this."

WE don't understand Arabs and how they think.

They are a very capable people.

And very sensible.

Well, it's for damn sure we don't understand how they think and that's the biggest problem with this war. They didn't bother to try to understand the CULTURE of the enemy. They just ASSUME that everyone thinks like we do, value the sames things as we do and react the same way that we do.

Barbara Walters recently interviewed the new King of Saudi Arabia and, during her visit, she also had extensive interviews with Saudi women. She was just STUNNED to discover that most of them didn't have any DESIRE to drive. She was trying to encourage the King to give the women more rights but she soon discovered that they didn't seem to even WANT more rights.