Re: Chalabi's road to the Prime Ministership in June?

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Hey, Chalabi may be an SOB, but he's _our_ SOB.

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Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Pollak [mailto:mpollak@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 9:50 AM
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> Subject: [PEN-L] Chalabi's road to the Prime Ministership in June?
> 
> 
>   [So even Arnaud de Borchgrave knows the cold war is over?]
> 
>    URL: http://www.upi.com/print.cfm?StoryID=20040329-094918-2616r
> 
>    Commentary: Chalabi's road to victory
> 
>    By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE
>    UPI Editor at Large
>    Published 3/29/2004 12:24 PM
> 
>    WASHINGTON, March 29 (UPI) -- With only three months to go 
> before L.
>    Paul Bremer trades in his Iraqi pro-consul baton for 
> beachwear and a
>    hard-earned vacation, the country's most controversial 
> politician is
>    already well positioned to become prime minister.
> 
>    Ahmad Chalabi, the Pentagon's heartthrob and the State Department's
>    and CIA's heartbreak, has taken the lead in a yearlong political
>    marathon. Temporary constitutional arrangements are 
> structured to give
>    the future prime minister more power than the president. 
> The role of
>    the president will be limited because his decisions will have to be
>    ratified by two deputy presidents, or vice presidents. Key 
> ministries,
>    such as Defense and Interior, will be taking orders from the prime
>