Exile Group Funded by the CIA Pose in Media Staged Event. April 9, 2007

by Will

Four years ago today, US-led forces captured Baghdad. In the city's Fardus Square, a Marine draped an American flag over the face of a huge statue of Saddam Hussein, which was torn down amid cheers from what we were told was a huge throng of jubilant Iraqis.

Later we learned that this supposedly spontaneous Iraqi celebration was a media event staged by the Pentagon for American consumption. The joyous Iraqi mob actually numbered fewer than 150, almost all of whom were part of an exile group funded by the CIA.

The leader of that group was Ahmed Chalabi, a con man and international fugitive. The architects of the Iraq war intended to install Chalabi as the leader of Iraq ? thereby replacing Saddam, a hideous dictator once supported by Washington, with a corrupt ruler of a slightly different flavor.

It didn't work out quite that way, but with a radical Islamic government in power and a civil war raging,
it's impossible to describe what's happened to Iraq as a ?liberation.?

Let us stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.

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