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John Kerry Thinks He Knows Better Than Allawi
By Matt Margolis | September 23, 2004
John Kerry, who can’t even settle on a position to take on Iraq, suggested today that he knows better than Iraq’s prime minister Ayad Allawi on the situation in Iraq:
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said Thursday that Iraq’s Ayad Allawi was sent before Congress to put the “best face” on Bush administration policy.
Shortly after Allawi, the interim government’s prime minister, gave a rosy portrayal of progress toward peace in Iraq, Kerry said the assessment contradicted reality on the ground.
“The prime minister and the president are here obviously to put their best face on the policy, but the fact is that the CIA estimates, the reporting, the ground operations and the troops all tell a different story,” Kerry said.
Allawi told a joint meeting of Congress that democratic elections will take place in Iraq in January as scheduled, but Kerry said that was unrealistic.
That’s quite a way to gain respect from world leaders.
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September 23rd, 2004 at 1:49 pm
JFK2 should read “How to Win Friends and Influence People” by Dale Caregie. Because obviously, he does not have a clue.
September 23rd, 2004 at 6:11 pm
“Allawi was recruited by the CIA in 1992 as a counterpoint to the more well-known CIA asset Ahmed Chalabi, and because of the INA’s links in the Ba’athist establishment. According to former CIA officers, Allawi’s INA organised terrorist attacks in Iraq between 1992 and 1995, allegedly including the bombing of a cinema and a school bus that killed school children. This campaign never posed a threat to Saddam Hussein’s rule, but was designed to test INA’s capability to effect regime change.”
Perhaps your right about Kerry being in the wrong, Allawi certainly knows more about Baathists and insurgency through personal experience.
September 24th, 2004 at 8:50 am
Miles,
He is there now. Just how is double-speak John going to deal in a more sensitive manner with our allies when he practically calls them liars? I’m just thinking about it from the point of view of what Kerry is saying.
September 24th, 2004 at 5:07 pm
But Kahn, Allawi isn’t the leader of Frogistan, Germany, China, or Russia. Ergo he is not a legitimate leader. Get with the program Kahn ole boy.
[i]”Were that they were one of the legitimate leaders I would show the proper amount of bowing and scraping required for us evil ‘Mericans to attempt to regain a sliver of respect in the international community. The kind of respect I tried to regain for us when I pointed out that our troops were war criminals in Vietnam. A place where I should mention I served, since I have kept it under wraps until now, unlike that AWOL BUSHITLER who has done nothing more during this entire campaign than remind us of events which happened thirty years ago! -John Kerry[/i]
September 24th, 2004 at 8:33 pm
What about Bush’s treatment of allies Kahn? Right now Bush can’t seem to decide. He and his surrogates attacked the UN and our allies who are helping us in Afghanistan, but recently he spoke in front of the UN in glowing terms and tried to gloss over all the criticisms he had made of them, for naught of course.
I personally have yet to see a foreign article about a coalition partner’s distaste for Kerry’s comments about Iraq, but there are numerous stories from other countries about Bush doing exactly that.
Allawi does have a suspicous track record, and there is little doubt that his appointment was heavily influenced by this administration’s preference. There is little chance that this current Prime Minister will be impartial.
September 29th, 2004 at 9:40 pm
We rebuilt Europe and forgave most of their debt. We have held troops in Germany and France (yes), the UK, Italy, and Spain (and more) since WW2 and the rise of the Soviet threat. By the way, look up what France did when we went off the Gold Standard - go ahead, look it up.
We believed that Iraq was a growing threat - and it certainly was ONE of the countries at the heart of the unrest in that reagion. They were flaunting UN mandates and had done so for years. This episode, along with the Balkans, Rawanda, and others show that the UN is useless. So, we built a coalition of the willing and attacked.
Kerry attacks our Iraqui allies - who face very real death threats every day. And, his sister attackes our other allies (like Australia - been our ally every war since WW 1), and Germany and France say they won’t help even if Kerry is president. So ya know what? The Democratic attacks on our allies is pretty damn close to sedition. They are willing to undermine our troops in the field for their own political gain. Put them in office? Hell, put them in jail where they belong.