‘Next Year in Baghdad’, An unrepentant Ahmad Chalabi celebrates his return with his neocon pals

"Alluding to accusations (borne out by a Senate investigation) that his Iraqi National Congress deliberately fed false intelligence to Bush administration hawks, he urged people “to forget … the rumors and innuendo” that were spread about him. "

I wonder if at that dinner they had a moment of silence for all the folks who have died, been maimed, tortured, houses destroyed, families wrecked?

Look who he's hanging with.

"Chalabi’s speech was greeted with loud applause and a cry of “next year in Baghdad” from former CIA director James Woolsey, one of the Iraqi’s leading supporters. The gathering at the stately Washington home of lawyer Jeffrey Weiss and his lobbyist wife Juleanna Glover Weiss, two prominent Republicans, featured many early Chalabi supporters such as Woolsey, former Defense Policy Board chairman Richard Perle, Danielle Pletka of the American Enterprise Institute and author Christopher Hitchens.

"Earlier in the week, after Chalabi held a series of meetings with senior U.S. officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld—people who wouldn’t see him a year ago—a reporter asked him: was all now forgiven? “Who needs to forgive who?” retorted one of his top aides, Entifadh Qanbar, who has now become deputy military attaché at the Iraqi Embassy in Washington."

Birds of a feather, etc. As with Robertson, Falwell, et al., he's all theirs.