{"id":2509,"date":"2004-08-11T07:33:38","date_gmt":"2004-08-11T11:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/08\/11\/its-hard-to-find-good-help-these-days\/"},"modified":"2004-08-11T07:33:38","modified_gmt":"2004-08-11T11:33:38","slug":"its-hard-to-find-good-help-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/08\/11\/its-hard-to-find-good-help-these-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Its Hard to Find Good Help These Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n

\n Let us get this straight. Sometimes in our encroaching senility we
\n mix up the ‘real’ news with our dreams and the Dowbrigade’s delirium.
\n Can it be true that our new friends in Iraq are trying to arrest our
\n Old
\n Friend
\n and
\n Main Man during the Hussein years, as well as the Chief Prose cuter of
\n the Big Bad Guy Hussein himself? And that these two desperados are father
\n and son? And that the father is accused of counterfeiting Iraqi money,
\n and the son of murder? And that they are both refusing to return to Iraq
\n to face the charges?  Weren’t these the people we were counting
\n on to "clean up the mess" and
\n establish
\n a
\n stable,
\n democratic
\n Iraq? What
\n hope do we have that the new crew is any better?<\/em><\/p>\n

This all sounds like a Graham Greene novel where the
\n only lesson is the pervasive corruption on all levels and on all sides.
\n It would be amusing and entertaining if not for the fact that American
\n Boys and Girls are dying to protect these clowns while they sack their
\n own country….<\/em><\/p>\n

As many remember, Mr. Chalabi sat behind Laura Bush this
\n year during the president’s State of the Union speech.<\/p>\n

The Iraqi judge who issued the warrants has accused Ahmed
\n Chalabi of counterfeiting and Salem Chalabi of murder, but no further
\n details have emerged. Both Chalabis have responded, in turn, by accusing
\n the judge of playing politics. The senior Chalabi, a former member of
\n the Iraqi Governing Council, says that the new government, with the blessing
\n of the CIA, wants to eliminate him from the political process. The younger
\n Chalabi suspects that members of the previous regime want to prevent
\n him from bringing not only Saddam Hussein but a host of former senior
\n Baathist officials to trial.<\/p>\n

from the
\n Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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