“How can he pardon Chalabi after what he had done?” Hersh asks. “The money he stole was from old women and children… and he was reviled.” (24)). Do not forget the role of the western intelligence services and the Western media to support the campaign of the invasion of Iraq by falsifying the facts to convince the public opinion. Unfortunately, the campaign has succeeded in. The fact, Iraq did not possess weapons of mass destruction. And as we know, most of those stories were false. Indeed, Aram Roston (2008) wrote an article: Funneling Fake Intelligence to Journalists "[Ahmed Chalabi] and his group, the Iraqi National Congress, was basically funded by U.S. taxpayers, first by the CIA from '92 to ’96 and then later, after that, by the State Department, which was forced to fund him by the U.S. Congress. He had so many friends in Congress. But much of what they did—much of what the Iraqi National Congress did with that money, in part, was funneling stories to journalists. And he became immensely successful at it. And as we know, most of those stories were false. … One was the idea that Saddam Hussein trained hijackers to take over airplanes. That was one …show more content…
He was having good relationships with CIA and others group inside US. James Bamford (2005), author of The Man Who Sold the War (Chalabi, John Rendon & the CIA "And after the first Gulf War, the whole idea was to oust Saddam Hussein and put in Ahmed Chalabi as the leader. So, John Rendon, his company the Rendon Group, created an umbrella group known as the Iraqi National Congress. … John Rendon came up with the name. He formed an organizational meeting in Vienna. He helped install Chalabi as the head of the group, and then the money was originally funneled from the CIA through the Rendon Group, about $350,000 a month, to Chalabi. … So it was a very convenient organization to turn to in order to help regime change. The CIA could help in terms of the combat, overthrowing a foreign leader like Saddam Hussein, but in terms of building up the world propaganda—number one, hating Saddam Hussein; number two, loving Ahmed Chalabi—that was something that they had to outsource, and the Rendon Group had become specialists in that type of propaganda." — James Bamford, author of The Man Who Sold the War (11/21/05)