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Sunday, February 20, 2005
Chalabi Claims to Have Necessary Votes to Be PM
Did America invade Iraq on faulty intelligence provided by Ahmed Chalabi -- so Ahmed Chalabi could become a pro-Iran, anti-Sunni Prime Minister? The AP has the story.
Shiites and their clergy-backed United Iraqi Alliance, which received nearly half the election votes, were to decide in coming days on their choice for prime minister.Hopefully his inteligence on how many delegates support him is as faulty as his intelligence on Iraqi WMD...
The two main candidates so far are the former Pentagon favorite Ahmad Chalabi, a secular Shiite, and Ibrahim al-Jaafari, the interim vice president.
Chalabi last week claimed in an Associated Press interview that he had enough support among the 140 alliance delegates elected to the National Assembly to beat Jaafari. He repeated the assertion in an appearance Sunday on ABC's "This Week" television show with George Stephanopoulos.
"I believe I have a majority of the votes on my side right now," Chalabi said.
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