Ayad Allawi lobbies to be latest CIA-backed leader

Ayad Allawi, with a Presidential lobbying firm behind him, is heading back to Iraq to save the nation, George Bush’s Presidency, and stop international terrorism. Because if there’s one thing we know now as fact, it’s that CIA-backed foreign leaders never fail in making life better for everyone.

A good look at Allawi comes here, from Salon in 2004:

There could be no more perfect evidence of the desperation among U.S. officials dealing with Iraq than the choice of veteran Baathist and CIA hireling Iyad Allawi as prime minister of the “sovereign” government due to take office after June 30. As one embittered Iraqi told me from Baghdad on Friday: “The appointment must have been orchestrated by Ahmed Chalabi in order to discredit the entire process.” He was not entirely joking, given the fact that Chalabi joined the rest of the Governing Council in voting for Allawi despite their long and vicious rivalry.

Of course, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki isn’t taking any of this laying down, and he will fight for his job. And Bush recently endorsed him:

“Prime Minister al-Maliki’s a good guy — good man with a difficult job and I support him. And it’s not up to the politicians in Washington, D.C., to say whether he will remain in his position,” said Bush, who always seems to forget that he is, in fact, a politician.

The endorsement was the type you’d expect from a man who once owned a Major League Baseball team – there are few endorsement’s less sincere than that of an owner of a last-place club, which would be about the perfect analogy for Bush’s current ownership of Iraq and the Iraq Occupation.

Basically, look for al-Maliki to be deposed or dead by the time the White House Surge Report – as Read by Gen. David Petraeus – comes out on Sept. 11.

–WKW

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