Irony of the day. Ahmad Chalabi wrote this: "Yet there are still those in Washington’s corridors of power who want to reduce Iraq to being an American puppet state, like Jordan or Egypt, nations governed through a corrosive mix of covert intelligence and military support spoon-fed to a permanent oligarchy." Of course, when Chalabi was the chosen puppet chief, he is all for this arrangement. He only discovered Iraqi sovereignty when he was abandoned by the Americans.