This is just a very interesting article: Chalabi What I find particularly interesting is the mention of how Chalabi interferred with a 1996 C.I.A. plot to overthrow Saddam Hussein. ("Then there was the time, in 1996, when Chalabi interfered with a C.I.A. plot to topple Saddam).

Premusably then-President Clinton and then-Vice President Gore must have approved of the C.I.A. plan, which makes it especially odd that Gore railed against the authorization for the war in Iraq in 2003. There are many plausible explanations for this but it is interesting that a Democrat-led U.S. government would have approved of this.