The choice of Iyad Allawi for Prime Minister has U.S. Dupe written all over it. The U.N. is surprised by the announcement, but okay with it ( translation we got blind-sided).Relationships with the CIA and British Intelligence. An exile. Time will tell but if I had to guess I'd say Bush fucked it up one more time. Hasn't he used up his nine tries at getting this right.

Update: Exiled Allawi was Responsible for 45-Minute WMD Claim
The choice of Iyad Allawi, closely linked to the CIA and formerly to MI6, as the Prime Minister of Iraq from 30 June will make it difficult for the US and Britain to persuade the rest of the world that he is capable of leading an independent government.

He is the person through whom the controversial claim was channeled that Iraqi weapons of mass destruction could be operational in 45 minutes.
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Dr Allawi was head of the security committee of the Iraqi Governing Council and was opposed to the dissolution of the army by Paul Bremer, the US viceroy in Iraq. He stepped down in protest as head of the committee during the US assault on Fallujah. But his reputation among Iraqis for working first with Saddam's intelligence agents and then with MI6 and the CIA may make it impossible for them to accept him as leader of an independent Iraq.