Not Your Sweetie

new angle on Chalabi
Neocon Lets Cat Out of Bag
Robert Dreyfuss
May 19, 2004
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/neocon_lets_cat_out_of_bag.php
Michael Rubin--a young staffer at the American Enterprise Institute who's just left the Pentagon, where he played a small role as a neocon cog in the Office of Special Plans war machine--let a herd of cats out of the bag about his favorite Iraqi phony, Ahmad Chalabi of the Iraqi National Congress.
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Well, says Rubin, who served as one the Pentagon's liaisons to Chalabi, that's exactly what they want you to think:
"Much of the information he collected was to roll up the insurgency and Ba'athist cells. It caught people red-handed," said Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon adviser who is now at a conservative think-tank, the American Enterprise Institute.
"By telegraphing that he is not the favorite son of America, the administration will bolster him, showing he is his own man."
I put this in abeyance as the events seemed too out of control to be true. But now I see that the "disgraced' Chalabi is doing the talk show circuit - MTP, ABC - so I am starting considering it again