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If "think" is the right word... Liberals think; reactionaries react?

Anyhow, it's pretty funny. If ever people deserved each other, it's Chalabi and his Pentagon backers.

Patrick E. Tyler and Felicity Barringer of The Times write:

In an interview today in New York, Mr. Chalabi professed gratitude to the Bush administration for toppling Saddam Hussein's government, but his specific proposals were directly at odds with the policies Washington is pursuing in Baghdad and at the United Nations. He demanded that the Iraqi Governing Council be given at least partial control of the powerful finance and security ministries, and rejected the idea of more foreign troops coming to Iraq.

Mr. Chalabi's strategy, he says, is to get from the United Nations General Assembly sovereign status for the unelected 25-member Governing Council. This move to lobby other nations for a swift transfer of some sovereignty is going down poorly in Washington, according to the Iraqi leader's aides.

Mr. Chalabi has sent representatives to France and Germany to discuss putting Iraqis back in charge under a new United Nations mandate that would end American control of the occupation, even if American troops remain in Iraq. His aides say he also plans to tell the Senate that the United Nations could save billions of dollars on Iraq's reconstruction by allowing an Iraqi administration to handle it.

"People in D.C. are accusing us of `conspiring with America's enemies,' " one aide said, describing the reports of his advance men on the mood in Washington.

Not to worry, Ahmed! They say that about anyone who disagrees with them!