Can anyone tell me...

[California Joe]

Why we paid that prick Chalabi over 40 million dollars? Guys in the field don't have vests and we're giving him what? 300 Grand a month to spend on whores or gawd knows what for giving us crappy intel he probably got from Iranian agents. Stupid.

[Maverick77]

lifes inperfect

[Tane Angle]

Chalk up another good judgement call on the part of the Bush administration. :roll: At least one can tell what the militants want more or less, which ones are on our side and which ones aren't. It's the Iraqi politicians who are confusing. The nations change, the lack of likeable politicians stays the same. Well, at least nations are about people and ideas, not politicians. :|

[MKtexan]

Well he is gone now California Joe.

[Secret Squirrel]

Why we paid that prick Chalabi over 40 million dollars? Guys in the field don't have vests and we're giving him what? 300 Grand a month to spend on whores or gawd knows what for giving us crappy intel he probably got from Iranian agents. Stupid.

Plain and simple...He was on the payroll because he was telling Bush what he wanted to hear.

[NcDeuce]

Why we paid that prick Chalabi over 40 million dollars? Guys in the field don't have vests and we're giving him what? 300 Grand a month to spend on whores or gawd knows what for giving us crappy intel he probably got from Iranian agents. Stupid.

I'm bumfuzzled as well.

Also, why are we sending ADA & medical service detachments on COMBAT ARMS missions?????????

[2Sheds_Jackson]

Yeah, the dollar figure that this turd was pulling down seems a bit high. I think that he was splitting the dough with some other folks...i.e. the money he got was not just for him. Reports talk about Chalabi's "network" in Iraq. So I suppose maybe it's not too outrageous.

I wouldn't be so quick to point the finger at Bush. After all, Bush is the guy who stopped paying him...not the guy who started paying him. He's been on the pentagon teet for how long now? I've been trying to dig it up, but it appears this goes back to Clinton and 1997. Don't shoot the messenger, as they say.

All HUMINT is potentially as ****ty as its' source. And this guy appears to be ****tier than most.

[California Joe]

I think the dough was being funneled through DIA. It just seems like a sum all out of propotion to any benefit we were supposedly gaining. He's a hell of a snake oil salesman. I'll give him that.

[Secret Squirrel]

Yeah, the dollar figure that this turd was pulling down seems a bit high. I think that he was splitting the dough with some other folks...i.e. the money he got was not just for him. Reports talk about Chalabi's "network" in Iraq. So I suppose maybe it's not too outrageous.

I wouldn't be so quick to point the finger at Bush. After all, Bush is the guy who stopped paying him...not the guy who started paying him. He's been on the pentagon teet for how long now? I've been trying to dig it up, but it appears this goes back to Clinton and 1997. Don't shoot the messenger, as they say.

All HUMINT is potentially as ****ty as its' source. And this guy appears to be ****tier than most.

Bush stopped paying him because Chalabi embarassed the hell out of Bush when the tons of WMDs werent found. His decision to cut Chalabi's money had nothing to do with trying to "right a wrong".

[shrek]

Guys like him and others, many others, were,are, and will be on our payroll. Clinton paid them, Bush paid them, and (God willing) Bush will continue to pay them. Kerry, he wouldn't! That's what scares the ****e out of me!!

[pinkeye]

Guys like him and others, many others, were,are, and will be on our payroll. Clinton paid them, Bush paid them, and (God willing) Bush will continue to pay them. Kerry, he wouldn't! That's what scares the ****e out of me!!

so american taxpayers should continue to pay the salaries of ****ty informants? and you are absolutely right, hopefully kerry, or any future president, will cease to fund assholes like chalabi.