As a result, the war was largely marketed domestically as a scare campaign, and the I.N.C. was enlisted to promote the danger posed by Saddam’s regime. [Francis] Brooke [US-based manager of Ahmad Chalabi’s intelligence factory] said, “I sent out an all-points bulletin to our network, saying, ‘Look, guys, get me a terrorist, or someone who works with terrorists. And, if you can get stuff on W.M.D., send it!'”
A pretty maddening article: one almost feels sorry for Chalabi for being pushed beyond his own unsavory limits. But not really. What to do about the dreamy-eyed blockheads who saw the fall of Saddam’s Iraq as their version of the Berlin Wall? Voting them out doesn’t seem enough somehow.