"In America last week to promote a book about the occupation of Iraq, Ali Allawi, Iraq's former finance minister, told a group at the Council on Foreign Relations that the Bush administration had invaded an "imagined" country. The Financial Times reported Mr. Allawi as saying that “the Iraqi exiles who advised the U.S. war planners described the country of their memories. Sadly, the Iraq with a solid infrastructure, a solid middle class and a secular tradition had ended ‘decades ago.’ ”"
Allawi can't have it both ways. He is now touring the US to promote his book and trying for history to dissociate himself from the project of Iraq's occupation, while he served as an integral part of the puppet government in Baghdad. Also, notice how scared and nervous Allawi gets when asked any question about Bush and the US administration. He suddenly gets cautious and claims that he can't "talk politics." Also, to blame the war and occupation on the handful of puppets is to absolve the administration that actually planned and executed the war and managed the occupation.