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</html><description>Ahmad Chalabi died earlier today. Here&#x2019;s my favorite story about this con man who helped talk a weak and stupid political establishment into a disastrous war, from 2004. Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi leader and former ally of the Bush administration, disclosed to an Iranian official that the United States had broken the secret communications code &hellip;</description><thumbnail_url>https://balloon-juice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/tunchiswatching.jpg</thumbnail_url><thumbnail_width>2048</thumbnail_width><thumbnail_height>1536</thumbnail_height></oembed>
