From One who Got OVER to Another

I guess it takes a bunch of lyin', connivin', falsifyin' folks to appreciate another artist's handiwork.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a congratulatory phone call to Ahmed Chalabi, who assumed a top post in Iraq's new government after earlier falling from US grace, officials said.

Rice phoned Chalabi, the deputy prime minister, and Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari on Tuesday, the day Iraq's interim government was sworn in, said State Department spokesman Richard Boucher.

Boucher said Rice spoke to Chalabi "to recognize, first of all, the place that he's taken in the government and to congratulate him on that, but also to discuss some of the issues still facing the government."

Chalabi, who vehemently opposed the regime of Saddam Hussein from exile, was once a Pentagon favorite who provided volunteers for the embryo of an Iraqi force during the 2003 US-led invasion.

But he fell out of US favor amid charges last year that he traded US intelligence to Iran. He also faces a jail sentence handed down in absentia by a Jordanian court for embezzling bank funds in 1992.

Excuse me....[Attaturk leaves room, runs across street, finds empty vacant lot, let's out primal scream, runs back from across the street, nods pleasantly to his secretary (in a purely professional and respectful manner), sits down in his office again...]

Aw crap...

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