Q Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. Chalabi is an Iraqi leader that's fallen out of favor within your administration. I'm wondering if you feel that he provided any false information, or are you particularly --The lie was so bald-faced that Jon Stewart had another "Are you f---ing KIDDING ME?" moment on tonight's The Daily Show. "HE SAT BEHIND YOUR WIFE AT THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS!" "He's the reason you started the WAR!"
THE PRESIDENT: Chalabi?
Q Yes, with Chalabi.
THE PRESIDENT: My meetings with him were very brief. I mean, I think I met with him at the State of the Union and just kind of working through the rope line, and he might have come with a group of leaders. But I haven't had any extensive conversations with him.
Mr. Brahimi made the decision on Chalabi, not the United States. Mr. Brahimi was the person that put together the group. And I haven't spoken to him or anybody on the ground as to why Chalabi wasn't taken.
In terms of information --
Q I guess I'm asking, do you feel like he misled your administration, in terms of what the expectations were going to be going into Iraq?
THE PRESIDENT: I don't remember anybody walking into my office saying, Chalabi says this is the way it's going to be in Iraq.
Atrios has more - LOTS more - on this nonsense, especially Bush's meeting with Chilabi on Turkee Day (WITH pictures). This one was just too flippin' easy. The temerity of this little creep to think he was going to get away with this is beyond description.
He lied. Plainly. Simply. HE LIED. The little cretin. He owes Bill Clinton and America a big fat wet apology.
Honor and dignity? Bull. Shit.
