Maliki told Bush To Withdraw From Baghdad

By Michael Abramowitz and Peter Baker

Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, January 21, 2007

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki had a surprise for President Bush when they sat down with their aides in the Four Seasons Hotel in Amman, Jordan. Firing up a PowerPoint presentation, Maliki and his national security adviser proposed that U.S. troops withdraw to the outskirts of Baghdad and let Iraqis take over security in the strife-torn capital. Maliki said he did not want any more U.S. troops at all, just more authority.

The president listened intently to the unexpected proposal at their Nov. 30 meeting, according to accounts from several administration officials. Bush seemed impressed that Maliki had taken the initiative, but it did not take him long to reject the idea.    Entire Article

   As is usual, the 'decider/divider' ignored the Iraqi Prime Minister as he does with everyone else! What happened to 'if they ask us to leave then we will'?

   Must be hard to overcome your greed for oil and all of the cash that it brings in. Bush doesn't want someone else to look smarter than he is but he fails to understand that even a snail on drugs can beat him at the I.Q. table.

 

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