Who canceled the meeting?
And, who leaked the Hadley memo to the New York Times? Did the White House purposefully do this to play hardball with Malaki?
AMMAN, Jordan -
President Bush's high-profile meeting with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Wednesday was canceled in a stunning turn of events after disclosure of U.S. doubts about the Iraqi leader's capabilities and a political boycott in Baghdad protesting his attendance....The last-minute cancellation was not announced until Bush had already come to Raghadan Palace and posed for photographs alone with the king. White House counselor Dan Bartlett denied that the delay was a snub by al-Maliki directed at Bush or was related to the leak of a memo written by White House National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley's questioning the prime minister's capacity for controlling violence in Iraq
President Bush's high-profile meeting with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Wednesday was canceled in a stunning turn of events after disclosure of U.S. doubts about the Iraqi leader's capabilities and a political boycott in Baghdad protesting his attendance....The last-minute cancellation was not announced until Bush had already come to Raghadan Palace and posed for photographs alone with the king. White House counselor Dan Bartlett denied that the delay was a snub by al-Maliki directed at Bush or was related to the leak of a memo written by White House National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley's questioning the prime minister's capacity for controlling violence in Iraq
