Oh, Ahmad, You Had Us at 'Welcome As Liberators'
You remember Ahmad Chalabi, of course. He's the Iraqi expatriate who, from his London-based Iraqi National Congress, fed the administration — and his pal Judy Miller — bullshit intelligence from within Iraq that the White House (and Judy) used to trick the American people into supporting the war. He's the guy who for a while was the Americans' best friend in Iraq until he wasn't anymore — it seems he was passing U.S. intelligence onto Iran, which caused an American ransacking of his home and headquarters. But now, they tell us, he's a good guy again. And so all the neocons love him.
None less so than the fine folks at The New York Sun, who were so pleased to get a meeting with the guy that they run a photo of Chalabi in their offices atop a lengthy editorial that sings his praises.
Isn't Sun managing editor Ira Stoll cute when he's in the throes of first love?
