Iraqi PM Alawi just handed Kerry the election

I think US puppet Prime Minister Alawi of Iraq just handed John Kerry the election. CBS News has just confirmed what Gallup's polls have already shown - namely, that over the past week Kerry destroyed Bush's lead on both terrorism and leadership issues. CBS is a bit vague in the story below, but in a nutshell I think the question was something to the effect of do you approve or disapprove of this candidate's handling of terrorism, and overall leadership.

The CBS survey showed Bush's lead on who could best protect the country against terrorism down among registered voters from 70-62 (Bush-Kerry) percent recorded from Thursday to Saturday to 64-62 (Bush-Kerry) percent over the weekend.

His advantage over Kerry on leadership capacity, the cornerstone of the Republican's re-election bid as a "war president," shrunk from 62-52 (Bush-Kerry) to 58-54 (Bush-Kerry) percent, according to the CBS findings.

A Gallup poll released Monday had Kerry halving a 22-point deficit on terrorism in a week. He cut a 14-point Bush edge on Iraq to four points among likely voters and inched ahead by a point among registered voters.

Let's not forget how this scandal got started. It was the Iraq government that went public, blaming the US for the lost explosives:

Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, presented the U.N. Security Council with an Oct. 10 letter from the interim Iraqi government reporting the loss of the explosives. Word of the letter was reported Monday by the New York Times and CBS News.

The letter from Mohammad J. Abbas, a senior official in the Iraqi Ministry of Science and Technology, said that nearly 215 tons of HMX, 156 tons of RDX and 6 tons of PETN had gone missing sometime after April 9, 2003, the day Baghdad fell to U.S. forces. The letter blamed a "lack of security" for the loss.

So, for reasons unknown, Iraqi puppet Prime Minister Alawi thought it would be in his best interests to blast the Bush administration for the loss of these weapons. Pulling, in essence, a Sista Souljah on George Bush in order to firm up Alawi's own sinking credibility amongst his own people before the upcoming Iraqi elections in which the more religious parties (who we REALLY don't like) are leading in the polls.

It looks like the puppet got sick of having a hand up its ass.