Maliki and U.S. Ambassador coordinate their lies

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Oct. 27, 2006, 2:19PM

Iraq, U.S. officials agree on need for timeline

Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraq — After a tense week in U.S.-Iraqi relations, the prime minister and the U.S. ambassador issued a rare joint statement today in which Iraq reaffirmed its commitment to a "good and strong" relationship with the United States.

The statement also said that Iraq "made clear the issues that must be resolved with timelines for them to take positive steps forward."

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki had issued several public statements this week declaring that the United States had no right to impose "timetables" on his government.

That contradicted Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad's assertion that the al-Maliki government had already agreed to set timelines for curbing violence and solving other problems.

The statement was issued after the two men met "to discuss our ongoing efforts to bring peace and security to Iraq and create a better future for all Iraqis," the highly unusual joint statement said.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/4292776.html


Timelines, deadlines, benchmarks . . . Bush has juggled all of these terms and still insists our soldiers are staying in Iraq 'as long as he's president'. Maliki thinks Americans can be cowed like he's allowing his people to be trampled on and killed by his U.S. muscle.

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[AlCzervik]

1. looks like someone got sent to the rubber hose room for recalibration.

[louis-t]

2. CNN has been going on and on about how great things are

in Afghanistan all day and how it's "improving" in Iraq.