Seriously, how can you begin to react to this?
Iraq failed to name an oil minister for its new government on Thursday and controversial politician Ahmad Chalabi was appointed acting minister of an industry plagued by sabotage attacks and uncertainty.
Chalabi ... Chalabi ... damn, that name sounds familiar. Oh! That Ahmad Chalabi. No problem -- I'm sure that, with his years of experience in the industry, he'll do just fine.
Chalabi's aides said the former financier could head the ministry indefinitely in the absence of consensus over a permanent replacement.
"Dr. Ahmad may remain oil minister for weeks or months. It depends on reaching a political agreement," Nabil al-Moussawi, a senior Chalabi aide told Reuters.
That would leave Chalabi, who has no expertise in oil, steering the oil industry of the country with the third largest reserves through a turbulent period of suicide bombings and frequent attacks on pipelines.
Oh ... shit.
BONUS TRACK: And Maureen Dowd (at least when she's not being full of herself) has a good perspective on this as well.
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