Interesting news coming out of the Congressional address by Prime Minister Ayad Allawi of Iraq as irrefutable evidence that the invasion of his country was justified and that Bush administration policy there was working, hoping to defuse a growing campaign-season debate over the course of events in Iraq.

The media is in general saying that Bush’s people wrote his speech for him.

“Today’s speech by Prime Minister Allawi is proof of the tremendous progress in Iraq,” said Representative Roy Blunt of Missouri, the No. 3 Republican in the House. “For Iraq’s detractors, naysayers and critics, Mr. Allawi laid out a firsthand account of the positive developments in his country.”

Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, said Mr. Allawi “conveyed clearly what all Americans should know — that we are winning the war on terror, reconstruction efforts in Iraq are ongoing, and millions of people now live with optimism and the hope for a better life.”

But some Democrats said that Republicans, worried about the potential political consequences of continued violence and loss of American troops, are simply trying to put a positive pre-election face on what is going on in Iraq and are misleading the American public in the process.

Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, said he welcomed the prime minister but that Mr. Allawi had an enormous challenge in governing in Iraq. “I believe that challenge has been made far more difficult by the continued mistakes and persistent miscalculations of the Bush administration,” Mr. Kennedy said. “Our policies are failing and we need to correct course.”

Kerry says Allawi doesn’t know what he’s talking about. But who pays attention to a weather vane, anyway? It’s just ‘blowin’ in the wind’.

Mr. Allawi’s appearance comes at a time when American media is doing a virtual smear on the war in Iraq, magnifying the violence there, but Allawai said violence is the price of building of democracy.

“I can tell you now, they will not succeed,” Allawi told a joint meeting of Congress before White House talks with President George W. Bush. “The insurgency in Iraq is destructive but small, and it will not resonate” with Iraqis, he said. “Elections will be held on time in January,” he said.

“Reconstructing a nation whose basic human institutions have been torn asunder by a brutal dictator is hard, painful work,” Speaker J. Dennis Hastert said.

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