Politicians with backing from Washington fared poorly in the election. Former CIA asset Iyad Allawi is poised to lose his job as interim prime minister after his party came in a distant third with just 14 percent of the vote. The interim Sunni President Ghazi al-Yawir’s coalition only received two percent of the vote. One US backed candidate, Adnan Pachachi, did so poorly that his party won no seats in the National Assembly. Pachachi is the former head of the US-backed Iraqi Governing Council. It was only a year ago that Pachachi was invited by the bush administration to sit with First Lady Laura Bush at the State of the Union.