{"id":12993,"date":"2010-03-29T08:17:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T14:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12993"},"modified":"2010-03-29T08:17:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T14:17:39","slug":"justin-raimondo-who-is-iyad-allawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12993","title":{"rendered":"Justin Raimondo: Who Is Iyad Allawi?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nobody you&#8217;d want to know<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>by <a title=\"Posts  by Justin Raimondo\" href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/author\/justin\/\">Justin Raimondo<\/a>, Antiwar.com, 29 March 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The perpetual reinvention of reality proceeds apace, as neocons  who once <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/orig2\/bovard022104.html\">gave    expression<\/a> to the Bush administration\u2019s most extreme rhetoric now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/trish-wood\/hey-mrs-frum----its-a-lon_b_515822.html\">pose<\/a> as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.frumforum.com\/\">moderates<\/a>,&#8221; \u2013 and these  same neocons insist the Iraq war was    a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/opinion\/glenn_greenwald\/2010\/03\/10\/friedman\/index.html\">great  success<\/a> after all. They <a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=ODExMjM4ZmZkZTZhZjMwNmIzMGUyMmI5YmZmZmIzMmI=\">point<\/a> to the recent Iraqi elections as proof    of their redemption \u2013 even as their former pet, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/20\/world\/middleeast\/20chalabi.html\">Ahmed  Chalabi<\/a>, rises from the    political graveyard to become Iran\u2019s chief spokesman and agent. It\u2019s  one of    the richest, and perhaps most revealing, of the many ironies generated  by the    invasion of Iraq that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lobelog.com\/lest-we-forget-chalabis-useful-idiots\/\">Che  Guevara<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/webcache.googleusercontent.com\/search?q=cache:MIOQI40Qpz0J:messageboards.aol.com\/aol\/en_us\/articles.php%3FboardId%3D544758%26articleId%3D980107%26func%3D6%26channel%3DRants%2B%2526%2BRaves%26filterRead%3Dfalse%26filterHidden%3Dtrue%26filterUnhidden%3Dfalse+%22But+he+said+he+was+still+friends+with+two+of+his+former+neoconservative+allies+in+the+Bush+administration,+Paul+D.+Wolfowitz,+the+former+deputy+secretary+of+defense,+and+Richard+N.+Perle,+who+was+chairman+of+the+Defense+Policy+Board%22&amp;cd=2&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us\">the  neocons<\/a> has morphed into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Global-News\/2010\/0305\/Ahmed-Chalabi-emerges-as-key-player-in-Iraq-election-after-falling-out-with-US\">handmaiden<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/nationworld\/2001935950_iranchalabi22.html\">mullahs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/justin\/2010\/03\/28\/who-is-iyad-allawi\/\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody you&#8217;d want to know by Justin Raimondo, Antiwar.com, 29 March 2010 The perpetual reinvention of reality proceeds apace, as neocons who once gave expression to the Bush administration\u2019s most extreme rhetoric now pose as &#8220;moderates,&#8221; \u2013 and these same &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12993\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3nz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12993"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12997,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12993\/revisions\/12997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}