Iyad Allawi, The Next Beer Is On Me

While the votes aren’t yet in for Iraq’s provincial elections, The New York Times reports that it looks like former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi’s secular Iraqi National List has won a plurality of seats in Salahuddin Province, a majority-Sunni province north of Baghdad. Allawi was one of the foreign ex-leaders I singled out in my snotty casualties-of-George W. Bush piece two weeks ago. While this is a far cry from a restoration to the premiership, it bears mentioning that Allawi’s career isn’t totally in ruins.