The Little Frummer Boy on Chalabi

Ol' Dave is shilling for the Chalabster again.

"And in truth he's not an easy man to understand. He is subtle, sometimes guileful, working in the service not of the United States (though he has sought and accepted US aid), not of Israel (though he's often accused of that), not of himself (there are less dangerous ways of making a living than fighting Saddam Hussein) - but, to borrow a phrase of Charles DeGaulle's, of a "certain idea" he has had of Iraq."

Bull excrement. He may not be working for the US, or Israel, or Iran, but he is working for himself. There are less dangerous ways to make a living than fighting Saddam, but few have the ability to make him and his family the new scions of an oil-rich country.
The idea that Chalabi couldn't possibly be working for his own benefit because he can make a good living, and even be rich, doing something less hazardous than running an Iraqi opposition movement and then trying to get power in the new Iraq is absurd. People who are rich and powerful are generally interested in getting more rich and powerful. If all people ever wanted was enough, how come Hitler and Napoleon kept conquering more countries until they were stopped by outside forces?
As Steve Sailer has pointed out, the change of regime to enriched Chalabi's family.

"Iraq's new prime minister-designate, Iyad Allawi, is the cousin of the defense minister Ali Allawi, who is Chalabi's nephew. Whether Iyad and Ahmed will be clannish colleagues or relative rivals is impossible for me to predict, but clearly the regime we are creating will be rife with dynastic intrigues."

And don't forget nephew Salem Chalabi, who is invovled in the prosecution of Saddam.

There are two heories on why the neocons love Chalabi so much:
(1) Because he has promised to be friendly to Israel. This either means that the neocons are stupid (as Chalabi would, I believe, sell out Israel in a second if it furthered his ambitions) or else are confident that they can keep him on their side (if he was, as seems likely, leaking secrets to Iran, it is possible that this was because he wasn't getting the power he thought he deserved. In this case, they might think that they could buy him back with by promising him more power.
(2) There's another option that is mentioned also by Steve Sailer. If true, it's a serious charge, so I'll remain coy at this point. But it wouldn't surprise me if it were true.

That is all for now.