IRAQI PRIME MINISTER PARROTS DISHONEST BUSH TALKING POINTS
Today, speaking before a joint session of Congress, Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi parroted the Bush administration's talking points: "We are succeeding in Iraq."[1] The facts on the ground, however, suggest otherwise.Over the last year the number of insurgents in Iraq has quadrupled.[2] Attacks on U.S. troops are up 100% since last winter.[3] Major Iraqi cities such as Fullujah have become havens for insurgents and are completely inaccessible to U.S. troops.[4] Security situations have stalledreconstruction - Iraq still has less electricity than they did before the war.[5] Even some Bush administration officials have acknowledged that elections planned for January may have to be delayed.

[6]Sources:
1. "Allawi Says Elections Will Happen as Scheduled," Washington Post,
9/23/04,http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2198579&l=57907.
2. "Mission Still Not Accomplished," Time Magazine, 9/20/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2198579&l=57908.
3. "Iraq: A Quantitative Assessment," Brookings Institution,
7/04,http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2198579&l=57909.
4. "Green Zone is 'no longer totally secure'," Financial Times,
9/15/04,http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2198579&l=57910.
5. "Iraq Power Grid Shows U.S. Flaws," Los Angeles Times,
9/12/04,http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2198579&l=57911.
6. "Bush puts Iraqi leader forward," International Herald Tribune, 9/22/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=2198579&l=57912.