Senator Alleges White House Wrote Allawi's Speech

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday September 30, 2004 @03:25PM from the worked-for-caesar dept.

Jeremiah Cornelius writes "In a letter to the White House, a leading US Senate Democrat, Diane Feinstein, expressed 'profound dismay' that the White House allegedly wrote a large portion of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's speech to Congress last week. 'His speech gave me hope that reconstruction efforts were proceeding in most of the country and that elections could be held on schedule. To learn that this was not an independent view, but one that was massaged by your campaign operatives, jaundices the speech and reduces the credibility of his remarks.'"

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Front Page News For Nerds?? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-30 15:28 · Score: -1, Redundant

Really..this is hardly the stuff that matters to most slashdotters.
To the large number of non-US readers, this issue is pretty dumb. And even to US readers, who the hell really cares who wrote his speech? Everybody knows these politicans have dozens of speechwriters that do it anyway. They were hardly his own words in the first place.
It's pretty sad how slashdot has devolved into a Bush-bash fest.