{"id":938,"date":"2004-05-20T12:17:40","date_gmt":"2004-05-20T16:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/05\/iraqi_moses\/"},"modified":"2004-05-20T12:17:40","modified_gmt":"2004-05-20T16:17:40","slug":"iraqi_moses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/05\/iraqi_moses\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi Moses?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. troops and Iraqi police raid the offices of Governing Council member Ahmad Chalabi.  A breaking of ties?<br \/>\nRobert Dreyfuss is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tompaine.com\/articles\/neocon_lets_cat_out_of_bag.php\">suspicious<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In other words, it\ufffds all a big con game. The still-neocon-dominated Pentagon\ufffdwhich this week stopped funding Chalabi\ufffds INC \ufffdis playing its last card, hoping that it can boost Chalabi\ufffds sagging fortunes by pretending to sever ties with him. That, the neocons hope, will allow Chalabi to strengthen his ties to Sistani, the king-making mullah who, they hope, holds Iraq\ufffds fate in his wrinkled hands.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who knows.  But comments like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=C4MJLHVPLSGBCCRBAE0CFEY?type=topNews&#038;storyID=5207503\">this<\/a> do make one wonder:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He [Chalabi] also said he believed his deepening standoff with U.S. authorities over exactly how much power will be handed over to Iraqis when the country regains sovereignty on July 1 had been an impulse behind the raids.<br \/>\n&#8220;Let my people go. Let my people be free. It is time for the Iraqi people to run their affairs,&#8221; an impassioned Chalabi said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That does sound a little staged by a man who supposedly just had his house raided by the &#8220;Iraqi people.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/05\/iraqi_moses\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Iraqi Moses?\"><p>U.S. troops and Iraqi police raid the offices of Governing Council member Ahmad Chalabi. A breaking of ties? Robert Dreyfuss is suspicious: In other words, it\ufffds all a big con game. The still-neocon-dominated Pentagon\ufffdwhich this week stopped funding Chalabi\ufffds INC \ufffdis playing its last card, hoping that it can boost Chalabi\ufffds sagging fortunes by pretending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}