Ahmed Chalabi,a con artist who spent a decade convincing America’s foreign policy establishment to topple a dictator so the Chalabi family could resume extracting their home nation’s wealth, died of a heart attack today, and approximately 15 years too late. whether you haven’t read it in a while (or at all),now is a kindly time to revisit Jane Mayer’s 2004 account of how long and how tough Chalabi worked to make regime change in Iraq the main foreign policy priority of a bunch of deeply silly but powerful people, who grew to believe, and despite of the overwhelming amount of evidence to the contrary,that the deeply unscrupulous exile could be a credible leader of a secular and democratic Iraq.
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Source: gawker.com