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Indyk viewed Pachachi as a candidate to lead the "alternative" Iraqi opposition - "alternative," because it was during the Clinton administration that the Americans came to be contemptuous of the Iraqi National Congress under the leadership of Ahmed Chalabi. This was after Chalabi's organization received sacrosanct status during the tenure of the first President Bush, who declared that all those wishing to act as the opposition to the Iraqi regime and obtain American support had to join Chalabi's group. The Clinton administration hoped to foment the turnabout with the help of Pachachi, whose status declined under the administration of the current President Bush, even as the Chalabi camp rose in importance. So it became clear to the members of the Iraqi opposition that every American president has "his own" Iraqi organization.

fark me from judges to "official" opposition groups. This partisanship horseshit from BOTH parties will be the death of the republic.
thanx,
bill
thanx,
bill