Iyad Allawi is Dick Cheney

I mean, have you ever seen the two of them in the same place at the same time? And they're both balding. They both have the capacity to kill (OK, I'm guessing in Cheney's case). And they both think Saddam is responsible for 9/11:

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.

Maybe Allawi is the "foreign intelligence source" Cheney is getting all of his discredited information from! It certainly looks like Allawi has learned how to scare the American electorate quickly; not surprising, I guess, since he's learning from the masters.

Josh Marshall was on a roll yesterday, including this killer note regarding Cheney's defense of his evil(er?) twin:

This afternoon, after John Kerry said that Iyad Allawi was painting an overly rosy picture of the situation in Iraq, Dick Cheney said "John Kerry is trying to tear down all the good that has been accomplished, and his words are destructive to our effort in Iraq and in the global war on terror."

In other words, democracy in America is harmful to building democracy in Iraq.