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Can the Iraqis make this any more clear?
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The statement by Iraq's government spokesman, Ali al-Dabbagh, followed talks between Obama and Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki — who has struggled for days to clarify Iraq's position on a possible timetable for a U.S. troop pullout.
Al-Dabbagh said the government did not endorse a fixed date, but hoped American combat units could be out of Iraq sometime in 2010. That timeframe falls within the 16-month withdrawal plan proposed by Obama, who arrived in Iraq earlier in the day as part of a congressional fact-finding team. (Link)
Can they make this any more clear? What part of "we want you out in about 16 months" don't the Republicans understand?
Now, this is obviously uncomfortable for Senator McCain. After all, Senator McCain had envisioned a very long U.S. occupation of Iraq ("100 years? Make it a thousand.") and now watching the Maliki government daily aligning itself with the Obama plan is sure to rankle the notoriously cranky McCain.
In a "Today Show" interview this morning, Senator McCain delivered his response to the Iraqis:
Q: If the Iraqi government were to say, if you were president, ‘we want a timetable for troops being removed,’ would you agree to that?
McCAIN: I’ve been there too many times. I’ve met too many times with him. And I know what they want. They want it based on conditions. And of course they’d like to have us out. That’s what happens when you win wars.
In other words, those Iraqis don't know what they need, but John McCain does. It would serve Senator McCain well to develop a graceful way out of this rather than appearing as a petulant whiner.
Topics: McCain , Iraq , Maliki , Abu Ghraib , Withdrawal
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