BushCo chimps up again without knowing about new Iraqi appointment

[zulchzulu]

First it was Ashcroft saying that Armageddon is near without telling the Homeland Security poo pah Tom Ridge, who found out about the opportunistic choice of using impending fear and consequences beyond our imagination as a political tool on TV. Ashcroft figured that he could do a mega-fear conference without telling the dude down the hall that it's happening. Feels good, huh..Johnny. You ass. Let the mighty Eagle soar up your tush.

Now, we have another complete disconnect.

Iyad Allawi (get used to the name) is now the apparent new CIA-approved lackey that will probably run Iraq on July 1, 2004 unless he gets vaporized by a bomb from either us or whoever...

Snip:
"The Bush administration appeared to be caught off guard and somewhat confused yesterday after the Iraqi Governing Council nominated a physician with longtime CIA ties as the post-occupation prime minister. Officials in Washington scrambled to respond after the Iraqis took the public lead in a process that was supposed to be run by a U.N. envoy."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64453-2004May28.html

On edit: There's more!
Snip:
"Allawi, a wealthy secular Shi'ite Muslim and former member of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, is a relative of Ahmad Chalabi, a former Pentagon favourite who has fallen out with Washington, but the two are not regarded as particularly close."
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=519635§ion=news



Is that a Halliburton button on his jacket?

[drthais]

1. I SWEAR!

these people can't do ANYTHING right

it's AMAZIG
they screw up at LEAST once aday, if not more

what a bunch of MORONS

[Arkana]

2. Just what we need.

Wasn't Chalabi a CIA stooge as well? Oh well, I figure they'll find out that he's been passing info to North Korea or something. :eyes:

[burythehatchet]

3. Oh good...as long as they aren't close..

[zulchzulu]

4. Hehehe..they "aren't close"

That's CIAspeak for they don't share the same Russian and Hungarian busty whores every weekend.

[Gloria]

5. The UN was also caught off guard...

BBC World said the guy had ties to the old Saddam regime...he's
"strong" on security....

I swear, he looks like he could be from Russia's old elite...sort of KBG

EEEGH!

[zulchzulu]

6. A Baathist takes over Iraq? I'm sure that was in the BushCo plan

OK. We arrested all the Baathists when we invaded the country and stuck lava lamps up their ass to make them talk.

Now we hire a "former Saddamist" CIA-approved (after all Saddam was CIA-approved) stooge with loose ties to Chalabi (who we set up and gave $40M to for fake WMD "clues")...Oh wait. Did we? The fellas in Iraq running the show (Bremer...) choose this guy and don't bother sending a memo to the Oval.

Yeah, we're in good hands.

[Zorra]

7. Caught off guard? Hmmmm.......

It would not surprise me if this news story is just a way of making it look like Allawi is not their chosen one, so it looks like the Iraqis really had a say in who was picked.

I bet Allawi is their boy.