I look at this picture and see a man thinking, "I wish the Americans had put me in charge of things when they had the chance."  Wow, less than 1% of the vote, not even enough for a seat in the new parliament.  Whoof!  Frankly, I have no sympathy for Chalabi and think its pretty sad that his continued presence in the Iraqi government can probably be attributed to his high profile ties to the US government, the same people he occasionally attacks when he thinks it will garner him even minimal political support from Iraqis. 

Well the man has played the game and lost, now what?  I suspect he'll stick around in Iraq but it would be just as easy to move back to DC and see if Congress might keep financing his Iraqi National Congress organization or something.  Maybe his many Neo-Con patrons or the PNAC crowd will give him a job--lord knows the Iraqi people sure as hell won't!