May 19, 2004 00:08
Getting a little political!! Finally Ahmad Chalabi has been "fired" by the U.S. Government. The U.S. finally realized that Chalabi is a fake, it took us 12 million dollars to realize this. How can you claim to be "exiled" when your family left a country under their own free will after running the Petra Bank of Jordan under? Chalabi is just another power hungry person out for the money. The U.S. expected a man of wealthy background who left Iraq when he was a child, over 25 years ago, to be able get in touch with the common people of Iraq; wow, our country is messed up...Not only this but he and his "supporters" were receiving $400,000 a month. If I could receive money like that, hell, I'd go to Iraq and claim that I'm in touch with the feelings of the common Iraqi. Chalabi representing the common Iraqi is like Donald Trump moving to Mexico and claiming to be able to represent the common Mexican, it's just not possible, you can't do that because you haven't had to live the struggles they have, you haven't had to live through the hardships, theses are events in peoples lives that change their outlook and not living them makes it harder to understand where people are coming from I don't think that living in London for over 25 years, although you maybe an Iraqi, enables you to a leadership position in the new Iraq. Chalabi from the beginning was a phony and he should be forced to pay back every cent that we gave him as he misrepresented himself.