{"id":525,"date":"2004-06-09T10:30:12","date_gmt":"2004-06-09T14:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=525"},"modified":"2004-06-09T10:30:12","modified_gmt":"2004-06-09T14:30:12","slug":"look-into-the-crystal-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=525","title":{"rendered":"Look into the crystal ball"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jane Mayer’s “The Manipulator”<\/a> opens on a curious note:<\/p>\n

“Ahmad Chalabi pushed a tainted case for war. Can he survive the occupation?”<\/p>\n

Chalabi’s misinformation can’t have much to do with the reason he’s been scapegoated by the Bush administration. If he really is in the doghouse it’s more likely his ambitions, whatever<\/a> they might be, and the avenues he’s pursued to realise them, that put him there. My guess is he had something incriminating on the bosses and they were in a hurry to retrieve it. The Bush administration was well aware their intelligence was flawed<\/a> and were provided numerous opportunities to disavow it but chose instead to compound it with even more lies. If Chalabi’s major sin in the commission of this crime, in which they are all complicit, is flawed intelligence then why was yet another<\/a> misinformer<\/a> chosen as prime minister? <\/p>\n

Now we find out Allawi likely killed children<\/a> in his role as CIA-sponsored terrorist.<\/p>\n

Oh right. In the words of Madeleine Albright<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“If we have to use force, it is because we are America! We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall, and we see further into the future.”<\/p>\n

That crystal<\/a> ball<\/a> seems<\/a> to<\/a> be<\/a> fresh out of vision<\/a> and stuck<\/a> in disastrous reruns<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jane Mayer’s “The Manipulator” opens on a curious note: “Ahmad Chalabi pushed a tainted case for war. Can he survive the occupation?” Chalabi’s misinformation can’t have much to do with the reason he’s been scapegoated by the Bush administration. If … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-8t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}