WP: Couldn't Have Said It Any Better Himself (Allawi's speech)

[kskiska]

By Dana Milbank

It's a political whodunit: Since Ayad Allawi delivered his address to a joint meeting of Congress on Thursday, foreign policy devotees have been searching for the ghostwriter of the speech, which sounded curiously familiar to American ears.

The White House denies that anybody in the administration did it. Several of the usual suspects outside the administration, including former White House officials Karen Hughes, Dan Senor and David Frum, have also denied culpability.

But those searching for a ghostwriter of the Allawi speech may be overthinking things. Maybe the prime minister simply went to the White House Web site and combed through some of President Bush's speeches. Consider the similarities:

"The world is better off without Saddam Hussein." -- Allawi

"The world is better off without Saddam Hussein in power." -- Bush

"There are terrorists . . . who seek to make our country the main battleground against freedom, democracy and civilization." -- Allawi

"The killers know that Iraq is the central front in the war on terror." -- Bush

and on, and on…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55180-2004Sep27.html

[Cha]

1. I'm surprised that dana milbank

is bringing this to the wapo's readers attention!

We already knew it. We thought rove wrote it.

[JimmyJazz]

2. WOW - we FINALLY found something Bush is good at --

Ventriloquism.