McCain Aide: Voters Don’t Listen to Maliki

An unnamed senior McCain official responds to Saturday’s report that Iraqi PM Maliki supports Obama’s withdrawal plan.

McCain Campaign Responds To Al-Maliki
19 Jul 2008 02:59 pm

"His domestic politics require him to be for us getting out," said a senior McCain campaign official, speaking on the condition of anonymity. "The military says 'conditions based' and Maliki said 'conditions based' yesterday in the joint statement with Bush. Regardless, voters care about military, not about Iraqi leaders."

An Obama official, also speaking on background, asks:

"So given that al-Maliki said today that it’s time for an official timetable and that Obama “is right when he talks about 16 months,” will McCain honor that commitment and call for withdrawal or change his position that we should leave Iraq if asked?"


http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/07/mccain_campaign_responds_to_al.php

Oh we'll just see how the voters respond to the wishes of the Iraqi leader after Obama gets home and voters see just how much the soldiers over there will be supporting the guy who will get them the hell out of Iraq.

Thanks, John.

Maliki says it's done, then move out.

per CNN this afternoon:

"CRAWFORD, TX (CNN) – An embarrassing slip up for the White House press office Saturday, when an aide hit the wrong button and mistakenly sent to the news media a Reuters article saying Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki backs presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's troop withdrawal plan.

White House spokesman Scott Stanzel says, "It was a mistake. Clips list for staff was supposed to be the addressee."

The Obama campaign quickly took advantage of the mistake, forwarding an ABC report detailing the incident to its press list.

This is not the first time the White House has emailed in error. But its timing is particularly embarrassing as the Bush administration's recent agreement with al-Maliki on a "general time horizon" for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq is being cited by some as resembling Obama's proposal that U.S. forces should leave within 16 months."

:rofl:

and if he refuses to do so, then he can't get mad when he's compared to Bush.