From: "Randy H" 

With Bush's campaign managers making Allawi dance like the puppet he just
has been made out to be.

Real nice, that. Poor sot probably won't last the year.

"Mark"  wrote in message
news:415cccb8$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>  I see nothing wrong with presenting a unified face to both the
> Iraqi people and the terrorists. If it means sharing speech writers, so be
> it.
>
> "Steve Ewing"  wrote in message
> news:opse58qpyksagvys{at}news.barkto.com...
>> On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:46:00 -0400, Rich Gauszka 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Well there may be a reason that the Bushies really liked Allawi's speech
>>> WASHINGTON, Sept 30 (AFP) - In a letter to the White House Thursday, a
>>> leading US Senate Democrat expressed "profound
dismay" that the White
>>> House allegedly wrote a large portion of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad
>>> Allawi's speech to Congress last week.
>>
>> It's actually worse than that:
>> http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_09_26.php#003533
>> =====
>> What happens when mockery can't catch up with reality?
>>
>> I know we're all waiting for the big debate tonight. But somehow I missed
>> this article
>> (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A60725-2004Sep29?language=printer)
>> in today's Post by Dana Milbank and Mike Allen. And it can't go
>> unremarked upon.
>>
>> You'll remember that a few days ago I joked about whether Iyad Allawi was
>> actually part of the Bush campaign or registered as a 527...
>> But, like I said, what happens when mockery just can't keep pace with
>> reality?
>>
>> It seems they decided not to register him as a 527. According to today's
>> Post, "the U.S. government and a representative of President Bush's
>> reelection campaign had been heavily involved in drafting the speech
>> given to Congress last week by interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad
Allawi."
>>
>> That's extraordinary. It almost takes your breath away. This whole
>> operation has been saturated in politics from the word go. And the Post
>> piece gives more of the nitty-gritty about Allawi's speech.
>>
>> But that's really all you need to know. It would be pretty dubious to
>> have the White House writing Allawi's speech. But the Bush campaign
>> itself ...
>>
>> What more can you say about that?
>> =====
>>
>> --
>> Steve 
>> http://www.qmss.com/sewing
>
>

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