Seems like Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, is diplomatically telling the Bush administration to go pound sand.  Even after pressure from the Bushites with claims that Maliki was misinterpreted in a Der Spiegel interview, Maliki today reiterated his support for Obama's withdrawal timetable.

 

Looks like Bush and McSame's arrogant, imperial occupation dictatorship towards Iraq and its disdain for that country's sovereignty has been met by Iraqi leaders flying the middle finger.

 

As The Guardian reports: "Barack Obama's campaign for the US presidency received another boost today when the Iraqi government welcomed him to Baghdad by again appearing to back his timetable for withdrawing troops from the country.

"The Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh expressed hopes that combat forces could leave by 2010 – in line with Obama's pledge to withdraw troops within 16 months of the US election.

" 'We are hoping that in 2010 that combat troops will withdraw from Iraq,' Dabbagh told reporters, noting that any withdrawal plan was subject to change if the level of violence rises again.

"The statement comes after talks between Obama and the prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, and a weekend when the Iraqi government unconvincingly tried to clarify its position on troop withdrawals.

"In an interview published on Saturday with the German paper Der Spiegel, Maliki backed Obama's timetable.

"Maliki's aides claimed his comments were "misunderstood" but did not issue the full retraction it is understood the White House had sought.

"The Bush administration has repeatedly rejected a timetable for withdrawing troops, agreeing only to a more vague "time frame".

"The US military took the unusual step of translating and distributing the Iraqi government reaction to the Der Spiegel article.

"Today, Der Spiegel today stood by its story and published a full transcript of the interview. Dabbagh, speaking after Obama and Maliki's meeting, said the government did not endorse a fixed date, but was hopeful that US combat units could be out of Iraq sometime in 2010. Obama made no public statements following the talks.

"The Iraqi government's apparent support for Obama's timetable has wrong-footed the Republican candidate John McCain and his attempt to portray his opponent's foreign policy as naive."

J. Sid McSame has again been caught showing his so called foreign policy experience is a myth.  The guy doesn't know what that hell he's doing except faithfully following the Bushite failed policies towards Iraq.