Mr. Chalabi was given the job as Acting Minister of Oil for the Iraqi nation, as an interim measure while the Prime Minister and his highest deputies continue the search for a permanent appointment.

The 275 duly elected representatives of Iraq, through their elected leaders, have decided to trust Mr. Chalabi with the financial future of the whole nation. That tells us what THEY think about whether Chalabi is a stooge for the CIA, or a spy from Persia, or an embezzler from Jordan.

And somehow, I think they know him better than E. J. Dionne, John Kerry, Tom Oliphant, Maureen Doud, the idiots at NY Times, Newsweek and Time, LA Times, the WaPo, CS Monitor, Leher-McNeil, etc.

Those don’t come in Wheaties boxes.

Supposedly he is a man of mystery and many “nephews”.

Charles put a post apparently 5 minutes after yours? at 5:17pm wst http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=15658_Iraq_Has_a_Government_Reuters_Isnt_Impressed#comments that says that noone was named to head 5 Ministries including Oil?

In other words, the Beeb are saying he’s Jewish …

The crook that led us into this so called mess was named Hussein as in Saddam.

Yawn.

This mess? What in hell are you talking about? Iraq has been liberated and Saddam Hussein is no longer a threat. Democracy has taken hold in other areas of the Middle East.

“The John Bolton of Iraq.”

John Bolton will soon be our next UN ambassador. Things are getting worst for the status quo elites at the State Department and CIA. They are rapidly being pushed out to the fringes of our foreign policy establishments. The neo-Cons are, thankfully, taking over.