After taking heat over the weekend for Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki seemingly endorsing Barack Obama??s plan for a timeline of withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, the Iraqi P.M. is now backing off of those statements.

Al-Maliki was "misunderstood and mistranslated" and his comments were not "conveyed accurately," according to an Iraqi government spokesman.

Al-Maliki was quoted by German magazine der Spiegel saying that American troops should leave Iraq ??as soon as possible, as far as we're concerned.?

??U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months,? al-Maliki was quoted as saying. ??That, we think, would be the right timeframe for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes.?

The magazine is standing by its story, but the Iraqi government is backing away from the endorsement of any U.S. presidential candidate, saying al-Maliki??s comments "should not be understood as support to any U.S. presidential candidate." President Bush and al-Maliki recently agreed to a ??general time horizon? for pulling troops out of Iraq, and McCain has argued that his support for the surge is one of the main reasons troops are able to be drawn down.
Iraqi Prime Minister Lost in Translation? - From The Road

Obama's plan? Where did anyone say "Run Forest Run"? Keep on grasping at them straws!:thumbsup:

Also...LOL...I didn't know that Geneva was in Iran. Sending a third level person from the state department is a far cry from meeting with Ahmadinejad with no preconditions as Obama stated in his "plan".

Have a good one!:s4: