From: John Cuccia 

On Mon, 24 May 2004 14:50:12 -0400, "Gregg N"
 wrote:

>"Gregg N"  wrote in message
>news:40b2420e$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> I think I heard him deny saying that on Meet The Press.
>
>How ambiguous of me. I meant that I heard him say on Meet The Press that he
>did not say that.

Here's the denial.  He didn't say "heroes in error".  He never
gave an interview, he was "chatting".  "Very few"
American troops were needed to defeat Saddam *and* those troops were
greeted by liberators.

Hell, I don't believe a word this guy says; is answer to Russert makes me
suspect that he helped staged the iconic "toppling Saddam statue"
scene that we still see replayed on American television occasionally.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5045125/
MR. RUSSERT:  But, Mr. Chalabi, you did say in--and the public documents
are very clear, that the United States would only need 30,000 troops in
Iraq, that we would be greeted as liberators.  Some fellow exiles said we'd
be given sweets and flowers on the streets and that you could take U.S.
troops to where the weapons of mass destruction actually existed.  And when
asked about that in February, this is what you told The London Daily
Telegraph.  "We are heroes in error.  ...As far as we're concerned
we've been entirely successful. That tyrant Saddam is gone and the
Americans are in Baghdad.  What was said before is not important."

What was said before is important because it was information you provided
to U.S. officials and to the American people.

MR. CHALABI:  What was said before is very important.  This interview is
false.  The reporter did not ask these questions and I did not say
"heroes in error."  I never gave him an interview.  I was sitting
in a room chatting. The issue here is this.  We believe that the United
States came to liberate the Iraqi people, and I think the liberation was
successful.  Very few American troops were needed to defeat Saddam and the
Iraqi people greeted them.  If the Iraqi people had fought them, just think
what would have happened in Baghdad considering what happened in Fallujah. 
The resistance was non-existent.  They were greeted as liberators.  The
liberation was successful.  The occupation has been a failure.

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