AT home Allawi tells the truth
Essentially what this story shows is that Allawi's public statemeents were managed by the Bushies who hoped Americans wouldn't know the reality that thos ein Iraq know. Or as the NYT puts it:
His tone was a sharp departure from the more optimistic assessment he gave to the American public on his visit to the United States last month. At his stop in Washington, Dr. Allawi made several sweeping assertions to reporters about the security situation in Iraq, including saying that the only truly unsafe place in the country was the downtown area of Falluja, the largest insurgent stronghold, and that only 3 of 18 provinces had "pockets of terrorists."
Harder to lie to the folks who have to live with the disastrous situation day-to-day.
Posted by Greg Stone at October 6, 2004 02:58 AMComments
