Allawi the Convenient

Via Josh Marshall comes solid proof that Allawi a) has no idea what h e's talking about; b) gets all of his talking points from B-C'04, but especially Cheney & folks like Perle & Wolfowitz. On Lehrer Newshour:

JIM LEHRER: What would you say to somebody in the United States who questions whether or not getting rid of Saddam Hussein was worth the cost of more than a thousand lives now and billions and billions of U.S. dollars? PRIME MINISTER IYAD ALLAWI: Well, I assure you if Saddam was still there, terrorists will be hitting there again at Washington and New York, as they did in the murderous attack in September; they'll be hitting also on other places in Europe and the Middle East.

That's pretty much case closed on Allawi's credbility. Folks like Allawi and the neocons think that by repeating this tired old lie over and over again, people will just start believing it. Paging Mr. Orwell.