tom_thinks
Monday, July 19, 2004
"He's our kind of bully," More on our Pet Terrorist
Read this'Saddam-Lite in the Making':
There's plenty more in the article, but not much surprising info. It seems like Allawi doesn't quite share the vision of democracy touted by the Bush administration. But we know they never really believed in it either.
A senior Jordanian official who met the new Prime Minister 'dozens of times' before the US invasion was always worried about an Allawi ascendancy. He explained to the Herald this week: 'He made it clear that he was going back to Iraq with vengeance; it was never going to be about a beauty of democracy, so much as a settling of scores
There's plenty more in the article, but not much surprising info. It seems like Allawi doesn't quite share the vision of democracy touted by the Bush administration. But we know they never really believed in it either.
posted by Tom, 7/19/2004 10:47:00 AM
