Baghdad Does Not Care For The New Bush policy

    Bush made the statement that the Iraqi Prime Minister,Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, was basically all for the 'new ' plan from Bush.

    According to The New York Times, this is not necessarily the case.

By JOHN F. BURNS and SABRINA TAVERNISE

Published: January 12, 2007

The Iraqi leader, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, failed to appear at a news conference and avoided any public comment. He left the government’s response to an official spokesman, Ali al-Dabbagh, who gave what amounted to a backhanded approval of the troop increase and emphasized that Iraqis, not Americans, would set the future course in the war.                      

Mr. Dabbagh said that the government’s objective was to secure the eventual withdrawal of American troops, and that for that to be possible there had to be security for Iraqis. “If this can be achieved by increasing either Iraqi or multinational forces,” he added, “the government, for sure, will not stand against it."         Entire Article

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    As I have stated once before, the whole policy is nothing even close to new. The fact that President Bush has to put words into other people's mouths is a sure sign that those running Iraq from the Iraqi side of the war will more than likely not hold up their end of the ' agreement ' that has been made with the United States.

   Note that they want the eventual withdrawal of the American troops as soon as possible.

 

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