Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi came halfway clean today. He admitted, in his first speech
to the interim national assembly in Baghdad, that the country’s “nascent police force is
underequipped and lacks the respect needed from the public to quell the insurgency,” Edward Wong reports.
“The tone of the speech was a sharp departure from the more optimistic assessment Dr.
Allawi gave to the American public on his visit to the United States last month,” Wong writes. (In
other words, Allawai did a double-twisting back flip.) The
other half of his speech — that his bogus report to the American people was part
of the window dressing for our prevaricatin’ prez’s campaign — went unspoken.
