somehow i knew this whole relationship with chalabi was going to backfire. the picture of him sitting next to laura bush during bush's SOTU speech after the invasion of iraq, is just priceless now. from the NY Times:

The two main religious Shiite parties in the interim Iraqi government have already banded together. But they face a formidable challenge to their prominence from an unlikely and possibly anti-American alliance that is looming between Ahmad Chalabi, the former exile and Pentagon favorite, and Moktada al-Sadr, the firebrand cleric who ignited two deadly uprisings against the Americans and the interim government.