Ok, this is getting insane. One month before we transfer Iraq over to the Governing Council, we’re raiding the offices of one of it’s members. Not just a random council member, either, but rather the golden boy, the President in Exile, Ahmed Chalabi. This is insane. We’ve cut off payments to his group, the Iraqi National Congress, and we’re arresting his men.
Bremer and the CPA are starting to look like chickens without heads. Reminds me of Faisal, the ex-con from Baghdad that the Brits installed as King of “Iraq” in 1920. Basically he sweet-talked the British Foreign Office (including guys like T.E. Lawrence, yes, that Lawrence of Arabia) into making him King, promising all sorts of Arab support that never materialized. 38 years later, his son, Faisal II, was overthrown in a coup that brought Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath party to power.
