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By Qassim Abdul-zahra and Sebastian AbbotBAGHDAD — Iraq's prime minister said Monday that his country is proposing an interim deal with the United States on the presence of American troops instead of a more formal agreement — and wants to include a timetable for a U.S. withdrawal. Some type of agreement is needed to keep U.S. troops in Iraq after a U.N. mandate expires at year's end. But many Iraqi...
ABC News’s Bret Hovell reports: Sen. John McCain responded late Tuesday to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s call for a drawdown in foreign troops from Iraq as a prerequisite for a security agreement with the United States. McCain said he...
In a brief question-and-answer session with reporters today, Republican presidential nominee-apparent John McCain downplayed the signficance of increasingly assertive statements by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his government indicating that the Iraqis will not agree to a security agreement with the United States, unless it includes a specific timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops....
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki dropped a bombshell into the American presidential campaign yesterday when he stated publicly that it was time for U.S. troops to leave his country. “The current trend is to reach an agreement on a memorandum of understanding either for the departure of the forces or to put a timetable [...]
In March, John McCain said that setting a timetable for American withdrawal from Iraq would be "an unconscionable act of betrayal." Yesteray, Nouri al-Maliki said he wants a timetable for American withdrawal from Iraq. McCain's flacks say that Maliki's position is "consistent" with McCain's. R-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-ght. I think this is A Big Deal.
I have two questions for George W. Bush and John McCain: Is Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki supporting a surrender date? And does this make him a Defeato-Shiite?
You see, yesterday,
al-Maliki said
that his government wants a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops to be a part of the military agreement now being discussed between Iraq and the United States. "The goal is to end the presence...
" Maliki Suggests U.S. Troop Timetable: Iraqi Premier's Remarks Reflect Political Plight" -- Today's Washington Post front page. " Al-Maliki: Iraq Defeated Terrorism ." -- Not today's Washington Post front page. ( Foxnews.com .) The Fox site used that headline for an AP dispatch on Sunday: Iraq's prime minister said yesterday that the government has defeated terrorism in the country, a sign of growing...
On MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program (see video below), John McCain was asked about Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's call yesterday for a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. troops. McCain first flatly asserted that the news contradicted what he had heard in direct talks with Iraqi officials. And then, tellingly, he concluded, before going into his standard Iraq rap: "Prime Minister Maliki is a politician."...
The long-running showdown over the proposed US-Iraq treaty, aimed at legitimizing the American occupation of Iraq, is coming to a head, and it doesn't look good for the United States. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki tossed a bombshell today. In a news conference about the still-secret US-Iraqi talks, which began in March, Maliki for the first time said that the chances of securing the pact are just...
Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today about Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's call for a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq: "President Bush refuses to heed the clear warnings of our military leaders about the harmful impact the war in Iraq is having on the readiness of our armed forces and our country's ability to fight the real war on terrorism in Afghanistan...
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's startling call yesterday for a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. troops from his country has been slow to draw the kind of attention here that it deserves. Perhaps that's because his announcement was made in the context of complex negotiations over a temporary authorization for the continued U.S. presence in Iraq, and perhaps it's because the precise meaning of...
Iraqis want an end to the immunity that US troops have from prosecution James Hider in Baghdad Times of LondonIraq said for the first time yesterday that it wanted to set a timetable for the withdrawal of US troops from its territory. President Bush has long resisted a schedule for pulling his 145,000 soldiers out, arguing that it would play into the hands of insurgents. Nouri al-Maliki, the Shia...
Source: [b]The Times (of London)[/b] Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki demands US withdrawal timetable James Hider in BaghdadIraq said for the first time yesterday that it wanted to set a timetable for the withdrawal of US troops from its territory. President Bush has long resisted a...
BAGHDAD, July 7 — Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has for the first time suggested establishing a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, a step that the Bush administration has long opposed. Read the full story
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, eager to sell his colleagues on a Status of Forces Agreement with the U.S., has suggested the possibility of a built-in troop withdrawal. The Pentagon isn’t impressed. “Timelines tend to be artificial in nature,” cautioned a U.S. military spokesman. BBC: Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has raised the prospect of setting a timetable for the withdrawal of American...
