CHALABI WATCH

[mburbank]

Dollars to donuts we install Ahmed Chalabi as interim leader in Iraq.

More dollars to more donuts that while nowhere near as brutal as Saddam, he'll still operate as a strongman which we'll initially ignore as he'll be friendly to the US.

Even more Dollars to Even more donuts that it then becomes a fifty fifty shot between
A.) Islamic fundamentalist revolution as when Iran toppled Western Proxy the Shah
or
B.) Chalabi becomes an embarassment to the US and we have to remove him by force as in Noriega in Panama and the Baath party in Iraq.

I would be so incredably happy to be wrong about this. I would rejoice if somehow we can establish a new paradigm here.