[xJones]

Sources I really trust tell me that Ahmed Chalabi is in this for Ahmed Chalabi, not Iraq.

I don't doubt that at all, but finding a George Mohammed Washington in the Middle East is going to be next to impossible. Corruption is an milliniem-old way of life.

[SubMareener]

Hamid Karzai is working on becoming Afganistan's Ataturk, which is like Tom Jefferson and George Washington rolled into one. We will have to see if someone steps forward in Iraq. Some of the tribal chiefs are pretty savy.