Barack Obama meets with troops in Kuwait before
going on to Afghanistan Saturday. Also today, a
German newspaper reported Iraqi Prez Maliki
backing Obama's 16 month timeframe for U.S.
troops to withdraw from Iraq, a story mistakenly
sent to the American press by the interns currently
running the White House. British PM Gordon Brown
also reportedly backs Obama's plan. A key statement
in the Maliki report: "The Americans have found
it difficult to agree on a concrete timetable for the exit
because it seems like an admission of defeat to them.
But it isn't," Maliki told Der Spiegel...Now who was supposed
to be the foreign policy leader in this presidential race?
Monday Update: While the Bush administration issued a claim
by an Iraqi official that Maliki had been mistranslated, the New
York Times found that the translation was accurate.
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