McCain's Brain, Chalibi's Water-Carrier

By Cernig

John McCain's top foreign policy advisor is Randy Scheunemann. Josh Marshall has the run-down on just who McCain thinks is a good decision maker on Iraq:

Scheunemann was a core participant in the lobbying, plotting and organized campaigns of deception that led America to war in Iraq. He was a close collaborator with Ahmad Chalabi through the 1990s. He helped draft the Iraq Liberation Act, which created the new funding stream for Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress. At the start of the Bush administration he signed on as Don Rumsfeld's 'consultant' on Iraq at the Pentagon. And then when the administration started cranking up the machinery for the propaganda campaign in favor of war he went back on the outside to form and lead the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, to lead the press and lobbying campaign to make sure the war got started on schedule.

Remember, US intelligence later found evidence that Chalabi, in addition to foisting a bunch of bogus intelligence and lying informers on the US and pocketing a lot of US taxpayer dollars, had provided highly classified US intelligence to Iran. Scheunemann worked closely with Chalabi for years in his efforts to get the US into war with Iraq. He was also a go-between between Chalabi and McCain. Now that he's taking such a high-profile role on the Iraq issue in the 2008, Scheunemann's history with Chalabi and the use of bogus intelligence to get the nation into war is unquestionably highly newsworthy.

This is the War on Terror in the grand ol' Bush style: a stay-the-course set of soundbites, based on warmongers' desire to believe the fantasies of a bunch of exiles, that put Iran's greatest allies in Iraq - Maliki's Dawa and Hakim's ISCI parties - in charge of the Green Zone and made those exiles into very rich, very corrupt elitists. Can someone please double check all of their security clearances?

And yet Scheunemann, a known shill for an Iranian double-agent, is now telling reporters that Obama wants the US to fail in Iraq because it will help his political fortunes.

Seems to me that the exact opposite is more likely true - that McCain wants the war in Iraq to last forever to help his own political fortunes, something which would not coincidentally also help the hardliners in Iran consolidate their positions. From Tehran straight to your ears.

(RightWeb has more on Scheunemann's connections to the PNAC war crowd and how closely Mccain hews to the Scheunemann/Kagan/Kristol axis' view of foreign policy at gunpoint.)

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Chalabi's Water-Carrier. But who's counting?