Dr Allawi will fight a different war from Washington's war.
http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/06/29/1088487965213.html
The US refused to listen last year when he counselled against disbanding Saddam's army, a move that sent half a million angry gunmen into the community as quickly as it denied the country an army to fight them.

He opposed the US insistence on purging the establishment of its Baathists - and their know-how.

Essentially, he wants the tools that Saddam had. Ominously, he is restructuring security and intelligence in the image of what Saddam had and his Defence Minister, Hazim Shaalan, caused some in Washington to blanch last week when he told Newsweek: "We'll hit these people and teach them a good lesson they won't forget.

"Americans and allied forces have certain restrictions we won't have - it's our country, it's our culture and we have different laws than you do. We will cut off their hands and behead them."