The Pentagon's Golden Child

Senior correspondent Robert Dreyfuss of The American Prospect compares Ahmed Chalabi to T. E. Lawrence during World War I, a man who brought about British victory and the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Lawrence and Chalabi have a few things in common. Namely, being involved in the redrawing of the map, and the power of oil in the Middle East.

"What they have in mind is denationalization, after which they will award Iraq's oil to American oil c

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