Sometimes I wonder if I am living in the same universe as Sally Quinn. She's never invited me to a dinner party, but then I haven't invited her to one of mine either. Anyway. In today's Post, she pens a loooong piece about Ahmed Chalabi's visit to Washington. In it, she manages to find various high-level Washington officials who proclaim their allegiance to Ahmed. "Suddenly many have positive things to say." Come again? Of course people in Washington (at least among you-know-which circles) have nice things to say about him! He has been their stooge for decades! The problem is, no one in Iraq has anything nice to say about Chalabi. "Today," she writes, "he is a strong contender for prime minister in next month's elections." He is? According to whom? Only (as Chalabi himself tells Quinn) if the decision to pick a prime minister is made in a "smoke-filled room"--and even then it might depend on what they are smoking. Quinn goes so far as to quote a Bush administration official on Chalabi thusly: "Very astute fellow." Well. One thing we know. The person who said that is not a very astute fellow.