Posted on 07/20/2008 7:45:22 AM PDT by enewsreference
Headlines:
Maliki backs Obama's exit plan Obama Campaign Welcomes Maliki Support for Timetable
White House sends press corps al-Maliki praise for Obama plan
Iraqi PM says US should leave as soon as possible
Maliki Doesn't Endorse Obama Troop Withdrawal Plan (Update1)
Iraqi Prime Minister backs plan to withdraw British and US troops ...
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Egg on the MSM face again!
Obama on Face the nation today repeated it - the guy came across as an empty suit. What a maroon.
FRACK NO!!!!
Iraqi PM disputes report on withdrawal plan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048212/posts
Iraq PM did not back Obama troop exit plan: government
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048298/posts
DER SPIEGEL is a left-wing Kraut propaganda rag. They grossly distorted Karen Hughes interview aswell, to portray Bush as a Nazi.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048359/posts
The press got it bass-ackwards wrong last week too:
Iraq News
Rubaie denies halt of Iraq-US security pact
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 06:25 GMT
Alsumaria Iraqi Satellite Network
Iraq’s National Security Advisor Mowaffaq Al Rubaie denied reports saying that Washington and Baghdad have ended efforts to reach an agreement on the status of US Forces in Iraq before President George W Bush leaves office.
In an interview with the CNN, Al Rubaie announced that the article published by the Washington Post is untrue saying that Iraq and the US are working hard to reach an agreement by the end of July.
Earlier, the Post cited senior US officials as saying that Iraq and US will opt for an interim deal instead. It added that the “bridge” security document would be limited in both time and scope and would allow basic US military operations to continue once the UN mandate ended, which would likely covers till 2009 only.
It is to be noted that in the past week Iraqi leaders have evoked what they call a memorandum of understanding while Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki has also raised for the first time the prospect of a timetable withdrawal of US troops from Iraq. Iraqi Vice President Tarek Al Hashemi approved this demand as well. The document is expected to include as well a “time horizon”, with specific goals for a US troop withdrawal from Baghdad and other cities and installations.
One ought to mention that while violence in Iraq has dropped to its lowest in 4 years and Iraqi security forces are commanding military operations, internal pressures are increasing on Iraq to set dates for a withdrawal of US Forces
The Newspaper noted that Al Maliki’s political opponents would likely cash in on the issue of an undefined US troop presence in provincial elections later this year.
The most debated unresolved issue was the legal immunity of US troops in Iraq which US officials have said it is non-negotiable, the Post added.
© 2007 Alsumaria Iraqi Satellite Network
Withdrawal 16 months from January 20, 2009 is a lot different from withdrawal 16 months from June 2007 when this withdrawal crap was first mentioned.
We’ve had a successful surge and in another two years we should be able to begin withdrawing troops. It takes a “real man” to advocate what is already in the works.
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