Contest? Who is Dick Cheney's secret friend.

Here's a squib from Vice President Cheney's ABC interview that hasn't gotten a lot of attention so far ...

I talked to a friend just the other day, a guy who knows the region very well, has spent a lot of years in that part of the world who had driven from Baghdad down to Basra in seven hours, found the situation dramatically improved compared to where it was a year or so ago, sort of validated the British view that they have made progress in southern Iraq, and that they can therefore afford to reduce their force posture.

Chalabi? Perle? Michael Rubin?

Who do you think it is?