The Importance of Ahmed Shahrabi in the Middle East

Ahmed Chalabi ran the US government and let us down a garden path for his interests. We did not want to become a colonial presence in Iraq. The reason why Ahmed Shahrabi was needed in the context of the invasion of Iraq because we looked at him like perhaps the goal like figure maybe not the Iraqi National Congress, but some structure. And so that was one element we need if he didn't exist we would have had to invent it.