A Comedian’s Weighty Legacy
By MARIO NAVES
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Now that the ultra-religious parties in Iraq have sidelined the secular, pro-democracy reformers, which of our policy makers is going to stand up and take the blame? Is it going to be George Tenet and Colin Powell, whose Central Intelligence Agency and State Department spent much of the last seven years ridiculing Ahmad Chalabi? Is it going to be all the administration officials who spoke off the record and on deep background to disparage Mr. Chalabi as a pro-Iranian spy without offering up a shred of evidence? It would seem the Iranian role in this election was to undercut the man who was accused an Iranian stooge.
By MARIO NAVES
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By MATTHEW RICE
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By JAMES BROOKE
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By MATTHEW RICE
|Now that the ultra-religious parties in Iraq have sidelined the secular, pro-democracy reformers, which of our policy makers is going to stand up and take the blame? Is it going to be George Tenet and Colin Powell, whose Central Intelligence Agency and State Department spent much of the last seven years ridiculing Ahmad Chalabi? Is it going to be all the administration officials who spoke off the record and on deep background to disparage Mr. Chalabi as a pro-Iranian spy without offering up a shred of evidence? It would seem the Iranian role in this election was to undercut the man who was accused an Iranian stooge.
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