{"id":584,"date":"2008-07-19T12:10:43","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T17:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=584"},"modified":"2008-07-20T11:32:12","modified_gmt":"2008-07-20T16:32:12","slug":"iraq-leader-maliki-supports-obamas-withdrawal-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=584","title":{"rendered":"Iraq Leader Maliki Supports Obama&#8217;s Withdrawal Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/0,1518,566841,00.html\">Der Spiegel is headlining this over their interview of al-Maliki<\/a>.\u00a0 Haven&#8217;t read the whole interview yet, but the key passage seems to be:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>US presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be the right timeframe for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes. Of course, this is by no means an election endorsement. Who they choose as their president is the Americans&#8217; business.\u00a0 Those who operate on the premise of short time periods in Iraq today are being more realistic. Artificially prolonging the tenure of US troops in Iraq would cause problems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(I actually had this story ready to post before Drudge ran with it as his weekend headline and before every other news source picked it up &#8211; as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/info\/6sjmc\/comments\/\">my reddit submission<\/a> suggests.\u00a0 Unfortunately, my WordPress account wouldn&#8217;t let me post anything and I wasn&#8217;t able to fix it until today.)<\/p>\n<p>Since this interview has been making headlines, an official spokesperson for al-Maliki has explained that there was a translation error.\u00a0 The generally understood explanation for this backtracking is that the White House put a great deal of pressure on al-Maliki to walk it back &#8211; which so many news sources are still leading with a variant on headline above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Der Spiegel is headlining this over their interview of al-Maliki.\u00a0 Haven&#8217;t read the whole interview yet, but the key passage seems to be: US presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be the right timeframe for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes. Of course, this is by no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,22,3,28,45,6,4],"tags":[105,510,511],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestic-issues","category-election-2008","category-foreign-policy","category-iraq","category-mccain","category-obama","category-politics","tag-der-spiegel","tag-nouri-l-maliki","tag-timetable"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-9q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}