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ashear
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Username: Ashear
Post Number: 1359
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, October 1, 2004 - 2:31 pm: |     |
You get it from spending time with Bush:
"In Samarra, the Iraqi government has tackled the insurgents who once controlled the city."
Iyad Allawi
Address to Congress
September 23rd, 2004
"U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a major assault Friday to regain control of the insurgent stronghold of Samarra, trading gunfire with rebel fighters as they pushed toward the city center."
Associated Press
October 1st, 2004
You really can't believe a word these guys say.
Remember too that Allawi had a representative of the Bush campaign working on his speech.
From: http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_09_26.php#003549 |
cjc
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Username: Cjc
Post Number: 2517
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, October 1, 2004 - 2:49 pm: | |
What's the point here? Military operations are run through the Iraqi government, Iraqi troops (both army and national guard) are alongside US troops in this operation. I don't get it. |
Dave
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Username: Dave
Post Number: 75
Registered: 4-1998
| | Posted on Friday, October 1, 2004 - 2:58 pm: | |
The way Bush spoke about Allawi last night was less as a leader of an independent nation-state and more as a general in the field. It was fairly telling, I thought. |
Robert Livingston
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Username: Rob_livingston
Post Number: 159
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Friday, October 1, 2004 - 3:02 pm: | |
Lawmaker expresses "dismay" that White House allegedly wrote Allawi 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.
"I want to express my profound dismay about reports that officials from your administration and your reelection campaign were 'heavily involved' in writing parts of Prime Minister Ayad Allawis speech," California Senator Dianne Feinstein wrote in a letter to President George W. Bush.
"You may be surprised by this, Mr. President, but I viewed Prime Minister Allawis speech as an independent view on conditions in Iraq," she wrote.
"His speech gave me hope that reconstruction efforts were proceeding in most of the country and that elections could be held on schedule."
"To learn that this was not an independent view, but one that was massaged by your campaign operatives, jaundices the speech and reduces the credibility of his remarks," Feinstein wrote.
Her letter was a response to an article appearing in Thursday's Washington Post, which also alleged that Allawi was coached by US officials -- including Dan Senor, former spokesman for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq-- in perfecting his delivery of the speech delivered before a joint session of Congress one week ago.
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