The race for Iraqi prime minister

Tonight I heard a report on Public Radio International's "The World" concerning the political wheeling and dealing going on in Iraq, and the report contained something that shocked me. There are now two contenders for prime minister, interim Vice President Ibrahim al-Jaafari and Ahmed Chalabi. How did this happen? Chalabi becoming prime minister could very well be one of the signs of the Apocalypse--and that is only slightly intended to be a joke.

For more reports, check out the New York Times and this AP report.

The BBC and AFP, on the other hand say that the United Iraqi Alliance has chosen Jaafari as its choice for prime minister and say nothing about Chalabi.

Iraq is starting to make the collective plots of all the Dune books look like the collected works of Dr. Seuss.