I find it amusing to watch the ideological transformation of international embezzler Ahmad Chalabi. Before the war, when he (wrongly) had assumed that he (along with US forces) would be greeted by Iraqis with "sweets, flowers, and tiramissu", Chalabi was a staunch secularist. Now, after realizing that his only supporters are his bodyguards (and he may not even be sure of that), he has affiliated himself with the clerics in Najaf.