It's amazing isn't it, that with just the passage of a small, nay infinitesimal, amount of time, Ahmad Chalabi, raconteur of the Fairy Tales of Mass Distraction, convicted embezzeler, liar of monumental proportion and a covert operative for the Government of Iran gets a warm welcome into the highest circles of power in America?

Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi offered Wednesday to be questioned by the Senate on his role in prewar Iraq but refused to apologize for fueling allegations that Saddam Hussein had hidden caches of weapons of mass destruction.

Accorded a warm reception by the Bush administration, Chalabi lined up Vice President Dick Cheney and five Cabinet officers, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, for meetings this week and next.

Chalabi, whose reputation in Washington has soared, fallen and now revived, was welcomed by administration officials whom he briefed on Iraq's reconstruction efforts, particularly on energy and financial issues.

Funny how that all worked out ... for Chalabi.

Which brings us to a new definition, Chalabi'd: To be rode hard and put away wet and told that it was good for you without even being offered a post-coital smoke.