Mission Accomplished

UggaBugga points us to this article, where Ahmed Chalabi has a good laugh at our expense. It's like the ultimate episode of Punk'd (or maybe PNAC'd), but with thousands dead and wounded (so far).

But many American officials now blame Mr. Chalabi for providing what turned out to be false or wildly exaggerated intelligence about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

During an interview, Mr. Chalabi, by far the most effective anti-Saddam lobbyist in Washington, shrugged off charges that he had deliberately misled U.S. intelligence.

"We are heroes in error," he said in Baghdad on Wednesday. "As far as we're concerned, we've been entirely successful.

"Our objective has been achieved. That tyrant Saddam is gone, and the Americans are in Baghdad. What was said before is not important."

Mr. Chalabi added: "The Bush administration is looking for a scapegoat. We're ready to fall on our swords if [President Bush] wants."

"Hero" isn't the word I'd use.

Of course, once the Americans leave Baghdad, there will be a lot more folks looking for Chalabi and his cronies to fall upon the ends of swords.