Chalabi was against de-Baathification before he was for it

Steve Clemons tells us that Ahmed Chalabi has joined John Kerry in the flip flop room:

Ahmed Chalabi has surfaced after a long period of silence in Iraq. He appeared at a news conference to announce that some of those "purged" from government positions have been allowed back into Iraqi government staff jobs. This is a couple of years too late in my view -- but it's a start.

What is odd is that Chalabi was a top tier advocate of extreme de-Baathification. Her is the clip:

Also on Wednesday, Ahmed Chalabi, the former exile who helped the United States build the case for invading Iraq and who heads a committee on de-Baathification, appeared at a rare outdoor news conference in the Green Zone to announce that more than 700 Baathists have returned to their old government jobs. Smiling grandly behind a bank of television microphones as bombs and gunfire interrupted his speech, Chalabi said the government's roster of rehired workers will continue to grow.