Congressman George Miller (D - Cal) takes a bat to Chalabi

Over at the house of representatives web site you can get a peek at a real treasure today. I'm sure you all remember Ahmad Chalabi... best buddy to Bush and Cheney... the man who assured the White House Iraq Group (WHIG) that we would be greeted in Iraq as liberators with flowers filling the streets? Oh, yes, and he was also the fellow who filled the ears of any willing neocon with tales of Saddam having stockpiles of every type of WMD in the world.

Well, apparently, the President has decided to invite this known felon over to the White House to chat about Chalabi's remaining asperations to be the leader of Iraq. George Miller got wind of this and just TOOK OFF. Read the whole speech, but I'd like to inlclude a view choice cuts for you here.

Madam Speaker, somebody ought to call the cops. Today I am not talking about collusion, corruption and cronyism and the leaking of sensitive classified information that has irreparably damaged the national security of the United States. No, I am not talking about Scooter Libby or Karl Rove, though their involvement in outing a female CIA agent to silence her husband's criticisms of the President's Iraq policy deserves closer scrutiny.

No, I am talking about another shadowy character and administration ally, someone whose deception played a large role in leading the United States into war in Iraq. I am talking about Ahmad Chalabi. Mr. Chalabi is the Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq's newly constituted government. But Mr. Chalabi also is a convicted bank swindler who, we now know, fed the Bush administration false intelligence about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction and capabilities and Iraq's ties to terrorism.

After the administration discovered that Mr. Chalabi provided false intelligence, instead of investigating, the Department of Defense attempted to prop Mr. Chalabi up as a candidate of choice in the post-war Iraq.

Keep in mind what Mr. Chalabi did next. He was suspected of leaking classified information about U.S. intelligence capabilities to Iran. He was suspected of telling the Iranians that we had broken the code by which we were learning information about their activities.

Calling the cops to arrest Mr. Chalabi, while he is here, so he can be interrogated, would be a good beginning to understand how extensive the manipulation, how false the evidence was, that caused the President to take us to war and which was championed by the Vice President and the President and the cabal to try to justify to the American citizens the reason for this war.

Mr. Speaker, call the cops. Mr. Chalabi should not be allowed to run free on the streets of this Nation's capital.

More signs of "juevos recoverados" in Washington. Any more like this, assuming my heart can take it, and I may actually being to believe the Democrats still want to have a viable political party.