Our Old Friend

In Iraq, one of the largest obstacles to peace is settling the political differences between Sunni Baathists and Shiites. Care to guess who is in charge of this process, and who is now blocking it?

Sweeping [American backed and promoted] de-Baathification reforms have been proposed to reconcile differences in the wake of Bremer’s failures. But progress on this front was “sabotaged” by U.S. ally Ahmad Chalabi, who is in charge of the process

Chalabi was also strongly in favor of the escalation.

Wonder how many times ole' W' has to take in the .... well .... you know, before he gets the picture that this guy is a snake?