Read Juan Cole.
http://www.juancole.com/
As far as it seems, George Bush has set this guy up in a very dangerous way for (you guessed)...
...political reasons.
I wonder if there is a way Kerry could turn the support thing around and say:
"And now, in the most ironic way, I have been accused of not supporting an important ally in Iraq. And yes, Allawi is key to our success in Iraq. But it is brutally irresponsible for George Bush to ask Allawi to reside in the same fantasy world of spin right beside him. Allawi has to go back to Iraq - not George Bush. Will he be able to perform his task in Iraq if people believe that he is simply George Bush's campaign surrogate ?"
Here is a blurb:
At a demonstration outside Abu Ghuraib Shaikh Abdul Salam al-Kubaisi of the Association of Muslim Scholars called on National Guardsmen to rebel against the government of Iyad Allawi. AMS has affiliations to some 8000 Sunni mosques in Iraq and has emerged as the most popular Sunni Arab leadership. ArabNews writes that Kubaisi said,
' "It is strange to hear someone announce that Iraq cannot achieve democracy without the Americans," referring to Allawi "who has abandoned Islamic, regional and patriotic principles, forgets that America is the one that slaughtered its native Americans and killed millions of Red Indians. He forgets that America is the first to have made mass graves by bombing Hiroshima." . . . "We live in strange times. As practically everyone is condemning America and its conquering of Iraq, we see a small bit of scum fighting the current, calling America a liberator and friend," referring to Allawis speech praising the US invasion.