[T]he most powerful GOP lobbying firm...staffed by key former Bush national security officials, is being paid by Allawi to coordinate these anti-Maliki, pro-Allawi efforts...
...One of Washington's Most Respected National Security Experts, key Rice advisor (and 9/11 Commission Executive Director) Philip Zelikow, is running around Washington trying to engineer the fall of the Iraqi government -- testifying at Congressional hearings and appearing on network news programs, perhaps even working officially again for the Bush administration -- all while being fraudulently held out as an objective expert and concealing that he is being paid by the prime beneficiary of these policies.
In a political culture with even the most minimal amounts of integrity, this would be a major scandal. But in our political culture, it is simply a vivid exhibit illustrating how our political system works.
Read the whole thing.
No, really, go read the whole thing.
(yawn)
SSDD
Posted by: Bubba | Aug 25, 2007 at 10:34 AM
Related, Greensboro's Jordan Green reported on the lobbying firm's less than admirable involvement with hurricane Katrina clean-up contracting.
Posted by: Roch101 | Aug 25, 2007 at 11:39 AM
Semi-related: Ari Fleischer leading a pr drive to increase support for War in Iraq.
Posted by: Jeffrey Sykes | Aug 25, 2007 at 12:29 PM