If this story is accurate (and that is a big if), then I truly mourn for the troops' sacrifice over there.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2048159/posts?page=38
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/07/19/maliki-obamas-16-month-timetable-sounds-good
Getting played by the media. There’s no time table. Maliki agrees only in principle that at some point a withdrawal should happen...when the conditions are right.
Somebody is doing way too many recreational drugs. When did "as soon as possible" become 16 months?
This is nonsense, although Obama is busy about jumping to the head of the parade, trying to say that Bush’s plan had been his plan all along.
He wants a weak President so he can get away with anything he wants IMO.
America would like to be out of Iraq in 16 months, too. I would like to be out in 16 months. I’m sure the troops would love to be done with Iraq in 16 months.
All of the above is true.
Maliki will reassess with everyone else if his government is not yet secure. He left that open-ended.
“As soon as possible” does not mean “immediately.” The trouble with translating such a line is that the words don’t literally mean what the phrase has come to mean.
Fellow muslims supporting each other.
al-Maliki’s statement that 16 months seems about right is as close to an endorsement of Obama as any foreign leader is going to go. The political impact of al-Maliki’s statement will be huge.
It is serious political capital for the Obama campaign.
Typical of the new and improved FNC. Never verify, but if it’s good for Obama then run with the story.
People, People come now... Drawing down some of the emassed troop strength in Iraq has always been the plan... When conditions on the ground, in country warranted it and guess what.... If the conditions warrant it then the SURGE WAS A SUCCESS... You cannot walk around and say I would have pulled the troops out of Iraq in 06 and the success would still be there today.... The issue has never been about the number of troops in Iraq the issue has always been about victory ... Think tactics, think from a military perspective... Drawing our troops down is a victory for George W. Bush it means Iraq is stable and isn’t that the Goal?
Stay out of our election Maliki.
If terrorists overthrough his government it would be what he deserved.
Eventually these people will have to grow a backbone.
Obama’s arrogance even surpasses that of cornerstone Dems like Pelosi, travelling abroad and making premature foreign policy she has no business or authority to make.
He is now engaged in a transparent attempt to show America just how popular he is across the world, but it’s all spin.
The rest of the world’s leaders are ambivalent at best about him, except in the Muslim world. This is indeed very strange strategy, and it is bound to backfire on him/
I hope his handlers and advisers are as arrogant as he is, and don’t see it coming, and keep telling him it’s OK to do what he’s doing/
I don’t know why America is even going to have an election. Obama has already made plans for a basketball court, troop pullout time table, negotiating with terrorist nations, making plans for a private army, and all kinds of work ups.
McCain is setting back and trying to be a laid back President of the U.S. and the U.S. can not have a Pres. that doesn’t have some type or pickup about them. Obama and others act as though he has already been elected and only waiting for the turnover time.
It's been debunked by Maliki himself and others. It's just another Obamagasm by the media.
Mr. Maliki should be made aware that he is responding to the plans of Chauncey Gardiner.