A Mini-Me for the world's most powerful leader

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Bush's chosen Iraqi leader echoes his every word, right down to linking the invasion of Iraq with the `war on terror' and saying the country's doing just fine

By Maureen Dowd
NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , NEW YORK
Wednesday, Sep 29, 2004,Page 9


It's heartwarming, really. President George W. Bush has his own Mini-Me now, someone to echo his every word and mimic his every action.

For so long, Bush has put up with caricatures of a wee W. sitting in the vice president's lap, Charlie McCarthy style, as big Vice President Dick Cheney calls the shots. But now the president has his own puppet to play with.

All last week in New York and Washington, Prime Minister Ayad Allawi of Iraq parroted Bush's absurd claims that the fighting in Iraq was an essential part of the US battle against terrorists that started on Sept. 11, that the neocons' utopian dream of turning Iraq into a modern democracy was going swimmingly, and that the worse things got over there, the better they really were.

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