Corrupt guys finish first

It's only too fitting that the crooked man that fabricated intelligence to American reporters and was on the Pentagon payroll has now been named Iraq's Oil Minister.  Ahmed Chalabi, the Washington Post reports this morning, will fill the slot even though he did horribly in the Iraqi elections.  But with his deep-rooted connections in the government, we will be seeing this guy's name for a long time.

Chalabi will have a lot of work to accomplish, says the BBC:

Although billions of dollars have been spent oninfrastructure since Saddam Hussein's regime was toppled, fuel andelectricity production have not reached the levels maintained beforethe invasion.

Where did those billions go?  Actually, one should ask where the hundreds of millions worth of American taxpayer dollars went that Halliburton still cannot account for?