As I said, "Maliki took the cool billion and the troops and handed the operation and the money over to Chalabi."

International Intelligence
Published: Feb. 28, 2007 at 9:41 AM
Analysis: Iraq's Cincinnatus option
By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE
UPI Editor at Large
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- The late Peter Ustinov once remarked, "Terrorism is the war of the poor and war is the terrorism of the rich..."

"With Ahmad Chalabi -- once described by his neocon friends as the best hope for democracy in Iraq, and now closer to Tehran than Washington -- moving back into the Iraqi political imbroglio, the realists see this as the institutionalization of corruption at the top. Chalabi is now supposed to serve as the intermediary between Baghdad residents and Iraqi and U.S. security forces whose main function is to assess how much compensation the U.S. should pay for damages caused to homes and automobiles by Petraeus' surge."

http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/analysis_iraqs_cincinnatus_option/20070227-081023-3620r/

Do your homework and find out more about the 'surge' and who is handling the additional troops and money that are being sent to Iraq.