Before Rearm­ing Iraq, He Sold Shoes and Flow­ers.

Ziad Cat­tan was a Pol­ish Iraqi used-car dealer with no weapons-dealing expe­ri­ence until U.S. author­i­ties turned him into one of the most pow­er­ful men in Iraq last year — the chief of pro­cure­ment for the Defense Min­istry, respon­si­ble for equip­ping the fledg­ling Iraqi army.

This is the qual­ity of men run­ning Iraq now.

I still can­not solve this mys­tery, why the Amer­i­cans are allow­ing sus­pi­cious men and heads of ter­ror­ist orga­ni­za­tion with well-known loy­alty to Iran to clime as pow­er­ful politicians.

Hadi Al Ameri, Head of Badr Mili­tia, is Iran’s First Man in Iraq.

While being in Iran, Al Ameri played a role in tor­tur­ing the Iraqi pris­on­ers, who were cap­tured by Iran dur­ing the Iraqi-Iranian war. Pris­on­ers who returned from there accuse him of being the cru­elest against them. This role helped him to reach the sta­tus that he occu­pies in the eyes of the Iranians.

We were so stu­pid that we let our idiot pres­i­dent and an Arab con man fool us on a life-and-death issue.

What Hoagland missed in his arti­cle is; Cha­l­abi is not a thief or a bank rob­ber any more, changed occu­pa­tion, now he is a pimp, pimp­ing between Tehran and Washington.

Read this Wash­ing­ton Post edi­to­r­ial “Cha­l­abi, in Tehran, Meets With Iran­ian Pres­i­dent Before Trav­el­ing to U.S. Next Week”

The tim­ing of the visit, which both sides said came at the Ira­ni­ans’ request, sug­gested the pos­si­bil­ity that Mr. Cha­l­abi might have been asked to carry a mes­sage from the Ira­ni­ans to Sec­re­tary of State Con­doleezza Rice at their sched­uled meet­ing next week.

here) makes me really worry that Iraqis will choose Cha­l­abi next elec­tion spe­cially if he will be blessed by Wash­ing­ton.

Car­toon above by Iraqi car­toon­ist “Muayad Naama” called “Daily life of Iraqi fam­i­lies nav­i­gat­ing through a sea of carnage”.