Quarterback Sneak [1]
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Ahmed Chalabi [3] was once dubbed the "George Washington of Iraq" by neoconservatives, as his Iraqi National Congress [4] provided much of the false intelligence information [5] that led the United States into war [6]. More recently, he has been accused of acting as a double agent for Iran and has denounced the U.S. Now he's back in Washington [7] in an official visit as Iraq's deputy prime minister. His visit poses a dilemma for the Bush administration [8], which is meeting with Chalabi but also distancing itself from his past. "Think of him as a former football player - that was all then. That's what he did in his other life," said a senior White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity (and without indicating which team he's playing for now).