Amusing Anomalies

The former prime minister of Iraq, Ayad Allawi, now claims that Iraq is in the midst of a civil war. Allawi in describing the situation in Iraq said:

It is unfortunate that we are in civil war. We are losing each day as an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more," Allawi told the BBC. "If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is.

Remember Allawi was the Bush administration's preferred candidate for prime minister after the administration soured on Ahmed Chalabi. Allawi represented the secular Shiite Bush administration was hoping would take over in Iraq. Unfortunately, Allawi could only generate 8-percent of the vote in the last election. Even more interesting is that Chalabi, who pressed his position initially as a secular Shiite, has forged close ties with the new non-secular Shiite party.

Iraq while a debacle is at least an interesting debacle.