Your idea is crazy, just not crazy enough to be true.
larry
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marwan Saidi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 10:05 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Food for thought... (Iraq)
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> Ok, so this has been rattling around in my head, and if I
> don't write it down somewhere, I may go nuts. I figure that
> this is as good a place as any (I really need a blog, I suppose).
>
> Here we go.
>
> So we (The US) are thinking about attacking Iraq. We have all
> of this info from Iraqis and ex-Iraqis. The hardliners in the
> Cabinet really like this guy Ahmad Chalabi, he is all over
> the news at the onset of the war, etc. However, not many
> Iraqis apparently like him.
>
> Fast forward.
>
> Now members of the Iraqi National Council (INC) start getting
> blown up. Militant elements start popping up. Chalabi starts
> to distance himself from the US by speaking out, etc. Next
> thing you know, we are raiding his home and suggesting that
> he may have sold intel to the Iranians. Then today on NPR I
> hear that he is in Najaf, demonstrating AGAINST the US,
> demanding that we pull our troops out of the city and respect
> the "truce" with al Sadr. Talk radio in my area is buzzing
> with anti-Chalabi stuff.
>
> So the thought that won't leave my head is this:
>
> If there was someone that I really wanted to head up the INC,
> but elements in Iraq don't like him because he is "in bed"
> with the US, maybe I would kick him "out of bed" very
> publicly. He starts to rail against the US, thereby gaining
> respect in the Arab street. Now maybe he _can_ rise to some
> sort of power in the New Iraq, and all the while still has a
> toothbrush in our bathroom.
>
> So, am I just nuts, or does this have merit?
>
> Discuss?
>
> Marwan Saidi
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