The view that we hold in Iraq now is this - that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are possible.

Chalabi failed to win a seat in parliament in the December 2005 elections and when the new Iraqi cabinet was announced in May 2006 he was not given a post. At the same time he was made acting oil minister before the appointment of Ibrahim Bahr al-Uloum in May 2005. In 1969 he earned a Ph.

Once dubbed the "George Washington of Iraq" by American supporters he has fallen out of favor and is currently under investigation by several U. Most if not all of this information has turned out to be false and Chalabi a fabricator. He was interim oil minister in Iraq in April-May 2005 and December-January 2006 and deputy prime minister from May 2005 until May 2006.