[TomasUSMC]

Mr. Chalabi had enough support to make a credible bid for the prime minister's post, only to drop out in the face of strong U.S.-Iranian lobbying (what's "strange bedfellows" in Farsi?) for the Islamist, Ibrahim al-Jafaari, who has proven to be an ineffectual leader at best

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Seems Chalabi would have been a lot better than aljafaari. Maybe they would have come up with a real constitution instead of the present "No law shall contradict Islam" piece of toilet paper they have now.

Freedom is worth fighting for, Islam is not.

[goldstategop]

The strange bedfellows part is interesting. Not surprising in view of the CIA's being populated with an anti-Bush diehards like Michael Scheuer (of "Anonymous" fame). These folks worked hard from the get go to sabotage the President's Iraq freedom policy. Its a miracle its survived in spite of them. We're lucky to have Chalabi around. Things would be far worse in Iraq without him.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)