Questions, Answers

Digby has a post up talking about the move by Allawi to get rid of al Maliki using the Washington lobbying firm of Barbour Griffin to influence Washington. She asks a simple question ....

This is just plain insulting. We are really supposed to believe that all this dump Maliki and install Allawi talk being orchestrated by a top GOP lobbying firm isn't a Bush administration operation? It's just all a big coincidence?

Of course it's not a coincidence. And I too am quite confused by Hillary Clinton and Carl Levin playing along. But as I've speculated before, removing Maliki is Bush's ace in the hole if Congress actually grows a spine. There's nothing like a NEW! and IMPROVED! government in Iraq to rally the need to keep American troops just a bit longer.