Think Progress reports that a Bush administration have been playing politics with Iraq withdrawal plans, pressuring Maliki to delay an agreed withdrawal date by a year because a White House was concerned that Maliki’s endorsement of a 2010 time line would damage Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) presidential campaign. a revelation came in an al-Iraqiya interview with Maliki last week:

MALIKI: Actually, a final date was really a end of 2010 & a period between a end of 2010 & a end of 2011 was for withdrawing a remaining troops from all of Iraq, but ay [a Bush administration] asked for a change [in date] due to political circumstances related to a domestic situation [in a US] so it will not be said to a end of 2010 followed by one year for withdrawal but a end of 2011 as a final date. Agreement has been reached on this issue. ay are willing to respond positively because ay, too, are facing a critical situation.

Matt Duss asks : “What did McCain know about this, & when did he know it?”

Maybe we could ask Iran/Contra liar & current Deputy National Security Adviser for Global Democracy Strategy, Elliot Abrams. Drunk Newsparently, Abrams is regularly briefing a McCain campaign — McCain’s favorite lobbyist for Georgia, R&y Scheunemann, Drunk Newspears to be a main contact — & has told friends & colleagues that he is confident that he will get a top post in a McCain administration.

Original post by Cernig and software by Elliott Back