President Bush has his own Mini-Me (Allawi)

[nostamj]

Dance of the Marionettes
By MAUREEN DOWD

President Bush has his own Mini-Me now, someone to echo his every word and mimic his every action.
For so long, Mr. Bush has put up with caricatures of a wee W. sitting in the vice president's lap, Charlie McCarthy style, as big Dick Cheney calls the shots. But now the president has his own puppet to play with.

All last week in New York and Washington, Prime Minister Ayad Allawi of Iraq parroted Mr. Bush's absurd claims that the fighting in Iraq was an essential part of the U.S. battle against terrorists that started on 9/11, that the neocons' utopian dream of turning Iraq into a modern democracy was going swimmingly, and that the worse things got over there, the better they really were.

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Mr. Bush doesn't seem to care that by using Mr. Allawi as a puppet in his campaign, he decreases the prime minister's chances of debunking the belief in Iraq that he is a Bush puppet - which is the only way he can gain any credibility to stabilize his devastated country and be elected himself.

Actually, being the president's marionette is a step up from Mr. Allawi's old jobs as henchman for Saddam Hussein and stoolie for the C.I.A.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/26/opinion/26dowd.html

[jeff30997]

1. "President Bush has his own Mini-Me"

And Cheney have his own Mini-Dick.:evilgrin:

[kentuck]

2. Strong social commentary....

that almost all Americans can identify with and understand...Kerry might should use "Mini-Me" to reference Allawi?? :)

[nostamj]

3. at the very least

he could point out more strongly that * used the Allawi visit as a CAMPAIGN event...

[nostamj]

4. .