Aug. 24, 2007 (LPAC)--On Aug.22, speaking in Kansas City, President Bush told the audience that Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki is "a good guy, good man with a difficult job...I support him.'' Did President Bush mean what he said? From all indications available to us, he did not.

It is evident that an intense anti-al-Maliki campaign, which centers around the efficacy of al-Maliki's leadership in Iraq at this point, has begun in Washington and a number of U.S. lawmakers have made plain their opposition to continue with al-Maliki. On the other hand, White House continues to give the impression that it does not want to uproot the prime minister who the White House had installed following the holding of "free and fair elections" in Iraq.

The doubt on President Bush's integrity stems from the news that Washington's high-powered lobbying firm, Barbour, Griffith and Rodgers (BG&R) has begun lobbying in favor of re-instating former prime minister Ayad Allawi in place of al-Maliki. The firm, BG&R, has sent out droves of e-mails in Allawis name and has purchased relevant web domains.

Now, BG&R is not another lobbying firm in the lobbyists' paradise (Washington DC). BG&R consisits of high-pedigree Bush backers. BG&R's president, Robert Blackwill, was presidential envoy for Iraq in 2004, was considered one of the Bush coterie and was brought in from Iraq in 2004 to campaign for President Bush's re-election.

BG&R chairman, Haley Barbour was former Republican National Committee chairman and present Mississippi(a Red State) Governor. He hired Blackwill as president after the latter got into trouble with the then-Secretary of State Colin Powell.

Besides Blackwill and Haley Barbour, BG&R also boasts a number of close associates of the extended Bush family. Ed Rogers, vice chairman and co-founder of BG&R with Haley Barbour in 1991, served as the deputy assistant to Bush senior and executive assistant to the White House chief of staff. Additionally, Rogers was the senior deputy to Bush-Quayle campaign manager Lee Atwater from February 1987 through the general election in 1988. Rogers also worked in the White House Office of Political Affairs during the Ronald Reagan administration when George H.W. Bush was vice president of the US.

The other partner, Lanny Griffith, chief operating officer at BG&R, joined the firm as other partner in 1993. Previously, Griffith served Bush senior as assistant secretary of education for intergovernmental and interagency affairs from November 1991 until January 1993. He also served in the White House as special assistant to the president for intergovernmental affairs and was the southern political director for the 1988 Bush-Quayle presidential campaign.

In other words, when BG&R speaks, it is the other side of President Bush's mouth.