Let's all laugh at Chalabi's
ultimate humiliation.
With 95 percent of a preliminary tally from the Dec. 15 vote now completed, Chalabi remained almost 8,000 votes short of the 40,000 minimum needed for him or his bloc to win a single seat in the 275-seat National Assembly, according to election officials. Without a seat in the assembly, Chalabi would presumably be unable to obtain a post in the resulting government [...]
Chalabi's supporters here had hoped he would do well among exile voters who were allowed to cast ballots overseas. But results announced Monday showed he received just 0.89 percent of the "special vote,'' from Iraqi citizens in foreign countries, hospitals, the army and prisons.
I wanted to write "final humiliation", but Chalabi is like a horror movie villain -- he keeps coming back every time we think he's been killed good and dead. It's an easier feat to accomplish when you've got millions of US-taxpayer dollars funding your operation.