Allawi: Baker’s draft reflects the failure of the US policy

This is part of an inter­view pub­lished today on Lon­don based Arab news­pa­per ashar­qalawsat with Ayad Allawi.

Inter­est­ing because he talks about the rumors of a coup against the Iraqi gov­ern­ment and he deny it. Say­ing the occu­pa­tion forces are in Iraq and they are not going to allow any coup.

Q: What is the true story of the coup which, accord­ing to some news you are plan­ning to lead against the Iraqi government?

A: This rumor started strongly and spread quickly, It is strange that it reached some polit­i­cal lead­ers in many coun­tries the in the world, and the United States. They believed these rumors, although we [

After all the suf­fer­ings and sac­ri­fices of the mem­bers of the Iraqi List, which faced ter­ror­ist meth­ods of killing, burn­ing offices and a delib­er­ate dis­tor­tion. after all this we get 25 seats in the par­lia­ment, and we do not believe in coups, this method when I was a teenager and a mem­ber of the Baath Party, now the mech­a­nism and cir­cum­stances on the ground does not allow a coup, in fact there is no army to coup with in Iraq, but there are Amer­i­can forces and the multi­na­tional force.

This is an unre­warded rumor and I am out­side Iraq to visit my fam­ily, how can I lead a coup from Lon­don cross­ing all the coun­tries, head­ing to Bagh­dad? But what is impor­tant in this story is; it is a part of a destruc­tion series of the Iraqi nation­al­ists, and also to drop our cred­i­bil­ity.
This rumors clearly planed by an inel­e­gance of a for­eign coun­try, aimed to fin­ish off the national iden­tity and the plan­ning of wider raids, arrests, kid­nap­pings and killings.

Q: Pub­lished in the press, the out­come of the for­mer U.S. Sec­re­tary Baker report, on the sit­u­a­tion in Iraq has reached the Com­mit­tee and the solu­tion is to divide Iraq into three parts, the Kurd and Sunni, Shi­ite, Do you think that the solu­tion of the Iraqi cri­sis lies in divid­ing the country?

A: I was puz­zled by this news, How could a per­son regard­less of his expe­ri­ence come to this con­clu­sion through a quick review and inter­view­ing per­sons within less than two weeks, I believe that this is a proof of the fail­ure of the Baker and the fail­ure of the US polit­i­cal process.
Sur­pris­ingly, a state­ments were off­set by Baker’s state­ments, made by Con­doleezza Rice, Amer­i­can Sec­re­tary of State is dif­fer­ent from the draft Baker in Bagh­dad, where she spoke about her government’s keen­ness on Iraq’s unity and not divi­sion, So it’s makes me won­der which one of them rep­re­sents the Amer­i­can polit­i­cal line, per­haps the elec­tions in the United States next month will resolve the mat­ter. We con­sider Baker’s draft unacceptable.