Former U.S.-installed Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has denounced the policies of President George W. Bush as an "utter failure" that gave rise to the sectarian venom that ravaged his country...
Allawi ruled Iraq for almost a year after U.S. occupation officials handed power to him in 2004 as prime minister of an interim government. He was selected by a council hand-picked by Washington after the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
Well there you have it. Bush's hand picked leader who would make Iraq a free western style democracy comes clean with the epic failure of Bush.
( Of course it's from Reuters...you wouldn't expect this kind of obvious truth telling from ABC or CNN now do you?)
Remember when hand picked weapons experts Hans Blix told the Bushies there were no WMDS? What did they do? They hired David Kaye. Hand picked this international expert on weapons proliferation. And when he reported the same thing that Blix reported, they replaced him with another person they thought would give them the smoking gun that only Judith Miller of the New York Times could.
This should have been a warning signal for us, that it didn't matter what the truth of the matter was. It only mattered that someone would deliver the propaganda.
There is no relief in these words. They could be sour grapes because Alawi lost the election. That doesn't really change anything though.
"Yes, Bush's policies failed utterly," said Allawi, describing the U.S. administration that once backed him. "Utter failure. Failure of U.S. domestic and foreign policy, including fighting terrorism and economic policy."
"His insistence on names like 'democracy' and 'open elections', without giving attention to political stability, was a big mistake. It cast shadows on Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Egypt, and I believe this will be remembered in history as President Bush's policy," he said.
And while Conservatives are blind to anything but toppling Saddam, all the while patting themselves on the back, no one in the Conservative circles can acknowledge or remember 4 million Iraqi refugees, 2 hours of electricity in Baghdad, 4000 US dead, 50-70,000 US wounded, $2 trillion dollars, and the US entrance into the world of institutionalized torture.
"Ending Saddam's regime was essential, but replacing the Saddam regime with extreme chaos was not right," he said. "I did not imagine the political process would eat itself from inside or that it would abandon the rule of law and establish political sectarianism."
Here's the irony and the link.
I totally agree with a former Iraqi prime minister
http://www.reuters.com/...