Bush’s Exit Strategy - Next Iraqi Prez: strongman that shoots prisoners in the head, lied of WMD's.

[Mugsy]

Via "Mugsy's Rap Sheet":

Bush’s Exit Strategy
Choice for next Iraqi Prez is strongman that shoots prisoners in the head and gave false intel on WMD’s.

Reports have been flying fast & furious lately... despite half-hearted denials... that the Bush White House would like to see the current Iraqi Prime Minister,
What makes Iyad Allawi such an attractive replacement for Maliki? Allawi, a former Ba'athist (the Arab Socialist Party - you know, the guys Paul Bremer and Donald Rumsfeld were so hot to "de-Bathify" from the Iraqi government?), and one of the founding members of the Socialist "Iraqi National Accord" while in exile (now an active political party in the Iraqi Parliament) came to prominence as MI6's (the British CIA) lead source on Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction, feeding them fabricated intel in order to trick other countries into taking out Saddam, doing the dirty work for him. Essentially, Allawi was to MI6 what Ahmed Chalabi was to the CIA (the former Bush darling, whom all evidence suggests Bush intended to install as President of Iraq after the invasion so we could get out quick, just as they did with Karzai in Afghanistan. But when no WMD's were found like he promised, the Bush Administration realized too late they had been duped, sticking them in Iraq without a Plan-B).

Maybe it should come as no surprise that Allawi and Chalabi are so much alike. They were boyhood friends after all. In 1992, the CIA under the George H.W. Bush Administration, recruited Allawi to provide intel on Saddam Hussein, whom they had just kicked out of Kuwait.

It was Allawi who was responsible for Tony Blair's September, 2002 pronouncement that Saddam Hussein possessed missiles "capable of striking London in under 45 minutes"... a complete and total fabrication with the clear intent to ratchet-up the fear of Saddam Hussein and spur on an invasion of Iraq.

In early 2004 while still the interim unelected Prime Minster of Iraq, Iyad Allawi visited an Iraq police station where some Iraqi men had been arrested as suspected insurgents. Still handcuffed and blindfolded, Allawi lined six of them up against the courtyard wall and shot them in the head with his own gun. Though Allawi's office denied the report in its entirety, a dozen Iraqi policemen and four Americans from his personal security team say they watched the event in stunned silence.

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Read the full story on "Mugsy's Rap Sheet".

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1. He called into CSPAN this morning

[Mugsy]

2. He's bucking for the job.

The Iraqi's don't "officially" have a major election coming up anytime soon, yet Allawi is spending $300K bucking for the job of PM on the "hope" that Malaki will resign soon?

I don't think so. He knows something.

("K&R"s are appreciated.)

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3. Don't Carpool with Nouri al-Maliki

Don't Carpool with Nouri al-Maliki


http://www.counterpunch.org /

CounterPunch Diary
Don't Carpool with Nouri al-Maliki
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN

As he heads for the office these days Nouri al-Maliki should bid his family especially tender farewells. If the patterns of US foreign policy are any guide, the Iraqi prime minister is a very poor insurance risk.

On Monday August 20 a leading Democratic senator, Carl Levin of Michigan and chairman of the Armed Services Committee returned from a weekend outing to Iraq and declared publicly that Iraq's parliament should remove al-Maliki from power. "The Maliki government is nonfunctional," Levin declared, "and cannot produce a political settlement because it is too beholden to religious and sectarian leaders."

The next day Hillary Rodham Clinton, front-runner of Democrats seeking the nomination of their party for the presidency went before the annual convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and reiterated her senate colleague's call. She said that al-Maliki should be replaced by a "less divisive and more unifying figure."

The final grim news for al-Maliki came on Wednesday when President Bush affirmed confidence in the prime minister, declaring him to be a fine fellow.

Levin, Clinton and Bush all simultaneously declared that they believe the briefings of the United States military commanders in Iraq. They exult that the "surge", advocated and presided over by General David Petraeus last winter, is now working. Baghdad is more secure. Casualties are down. The sectarian groupings in Iraq have been checked. Nation-building can proceed.