Bush Pushed Maliki to Drop His Support for Obama's Iraq Plan

thinkprogress.org — In an interview released on Saturday, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki made international headlines when he endorsed Obama’s plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq within 16 months. The U.S. military said that Maliki’s words had been “misunderstood and mistranslated.” The Iraqi officials were pressured by the Bush administration to do so. Jul 21, 2008 View in Crawl 4