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Iraq PM: U.S. troops should leave 'as soon as possible'
usatoday.com — Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says U.S. troops should leave Iraq "as soon as possible," according to a magazine report, and he called presidential candidate Barack Obama's suggestion of 16 months "the right timeframe for a withdrawal."
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- humanerror, on 07/20/2008, -1/+1Just goes to show how much the Bush invasion is struggling when the US military's own puppet politician won't support the party line.
- Ridgeliner7, on 07/20/2008, -3/+1USA TODAY:
Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has not endorsed any specific timeframe for possible U.S. troops withdrawals, a government spokesman said Sunday.
The statement by Ali al-Dabbagh came after an article was published by Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine which quoted al-Maliki as favoring the 16-month withdrawal window proposed by Barack Obama.
Al-Dabbagh said al-Maliki’s views were “misunderstood and mistranslated” by Der Spiegel and that the prime minister backs a general vision of pulling out U.S. combat forces based on talks with Washington “and in the light of the continuing positive developments on the ground, and “should not be understood as support to any U.S. presidential candidates.”
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-07-20-iraq ... - iching, on 07/20/2008, -0/+1Iraqi spokesman's" "clarification" came via CENTCOM which is unusual because it is not
the normal channel for the Iraqi government also Der Spiegel responds to CentCom and stands by the story in their paper. The cat was out of the bag and t'he commander guy 'tried to stop or spin the story.
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