Chalabi, that cunning and very intelligent(Degree in Mathematics from MIT) survivor has now forged an alliance with Muqtada al Sadr.
We have come to the ultimate irony, are #1 pick to rule Iraq, and serve as our puppet, is now in the arms of Muqtada al Sadr.
Chalabi, scoundrel that he is, knows he need stay in the Muqtada al Sadr camp.
Muqtada, who was basically described by our great intelligence commnity, as a dull witted cleric/thug, of no significance ; is now faced with an untouchable in the force that is Muqtada al Sadr; he has outmaneuvered the U.S. at every corner turn.
I have asked myself how did U.S. intelligence outrageously underestimate Sadr, and i reply, for the same reason Kissinger once labeted North Vietnam a 4th world nation that will be beaten easily: that being the oft deep embedded bigotry by the ever arrogant and deeply prejudiced american power centers.
Muqtada al Sadr, importance was missed totally by our great intelligence gatherers, because of their bigotries to what they view as an inferior enemy against a superior, and let's face, in their mind, G-d favored people.
So now Chalabi, if we went to him as a desperate last resort would being putting Muqtada al Sadr in power, irony of ironies.(and , because of both Muqtada al Sadr and Ahmadinejad being both Mahdist, being both inherent warriors, that don't cut and run; and both being rooted in a Khomeinism, and are each quite cunning and intelligent, the grand "success" of the Iraqi invasion, is to have created the perfect situation for two young fellows, made for a situation like this, to rise to the top.
This the "success" of invading Iraq. O brilliant:) Max