Iraqi voters may not agree on much, but 99.5 percent of them agreed not to vote for Ahmed Chalabi [3] in the country's December 15 election. Once hailed by U.S. neoconservatives as the "George Washington of Iraq," Chalabi's humiliating defeat at the polls makes him something of an embarrasment now. "The election results in Iraq may present Chalabi’s ardent U.S. supporters with a quandary: Chalabi, as well as other losing candidates, is alleging fraud in the election, even though the Bush administration [4] hailed the vote as a historic step for democracy in Iraq," reports Aram Roston.