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Was Iraq invasion at Iran’s behest?

Ahmed Chalabi, the thug whose Iraqi compound was raided by US soldiers this week, may have fallen from George’s grace due to his Iranian connections. Chalabi fronts an Iraqi exile group, the INC, that has been tight with the neocon crowd. In fact, intelligence from the INC was largely used to justify the war with Iraq.

Now it turns out that the INC, despite being on the US payroll for $340,000 per month, may have been an working for Iran. In a nutshell, the significance of this revelation is that, if true, it means that the US invaded Iraq at the behest of Iran. It means that hundreds Americans died in order to further the cause of a radical anti-American theocratic regime. It means that George W Bush was played like a chump.

The Defense Intelligence Agency has concluded that a U.S.-funded arm of Ahmed Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress has been used for years by Iranian intelligence to pass disinformation to the United States and to collect highly sensitive American secrets, according to intelligence sources.

"Iranian intelligence has been manipulating the United States through Chalabi by furnishing through his Information Collection Program information to provoke the United States into getting rid of Saddam Hussein," said an intelligence source Friday who was briefed on the Defense Intelligence Agency's conclusions, which were based on a review of thousands of internal documents..

See Josh Marshall for lots more details and much better analysis than I can give.