Thursday, November 30, 2006

Bush needs Malaki; Malaki needs Bush

Baker report "too litle too late...15 Brigades are to stand down...the Iraqi's will be able to perform their own security duties in June 2007.

Whatever. Bush and Malaki are in this together (how much oil $$$ is being exchanged between them?)

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Thursday he believed Iraqi forces would be ready by June 2007 to take full control of security in Iraq, an issue on which he pressed President Bush during their meeting in Amman, Jordan. In making the argument that his military and police could handle security in the country, al-Maliki has routinely said the force could do the job within six months