[A. Pole]

If Maliki said this, you can be sure that the people he's afraid of, al-Sadr and company, will be standing behind him with a daily calendar, tearing off each day as it passes.

Naah, Iraq is a home country of Baghdad Bob, of rhetorical exaggeration, empty promises and drivers using both sides of the road to drive (right and left).

Nobody will keep track.

[Steel Wolf]

Naah, Iraq is a home country of Baghdad Bob, of rhetorical exaggeration, empty promises and drivers using both sides of the road to drive (right and left).

So, since Iraq is full of bad drivers prone to exaggeration, the Islamic fanatics going to forget about the large Crusader army occupying their lands? A persuasive arguement, to be sure, but let's wait until next summer and see, shall we?