Kerry was right: Allawi now says "Brink of Civil War"

Yesterday, Iyad Allawi was quoted in the Sunday Times of London as saying, "We are practically in stage one of a civil war as we speak."

But only last fall, he addressed a joint session of Congress with an entirely different message - one that was heavily orchestrated by the Bush administration and which John Kerry immediately recognized as self-contradictorty and a puff piece for Bush's re-election bid. Funny how all of those right-wing bloggers who were baying about Kerry "dissing" Allawi's speech are utterly silent on this new Allawi sitrep ("situation report" - and his new one is VERY different in tone).

Allawi said, "The problem is that the Americans have no vision and no clear policy on how to go about in Iraq," [sic] and followed up with (quoting from the Sunday Times article):

Allawi said that he had discussed the urgency of rebuilding Iraq’s military with President George W Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary, last year. “Bush earmarked $5.7 billion (£3.2 billion) . . . but I did not receive the money,” Allawi said.

Guess what, Mr. Allawi, Senator Kennedy found this out in Bush's first term: when dealing with W, get the money (or the promised political com[promise) UP FRONT.