{"id":195243,"date":"2008-07-21T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/21\/they-have-the-tape-maliki-endorsed-the-obama-withdrawal-proposal\/"},"modified":"2008-07-21T17:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T22:18:00","slug":"they-have-the-tape-maliki-endorsed-the-obama-withdrawal-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/21\/they-have-the-tape-maliki-endorsed-the-obama-withdrawal-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"They Have the Tape, Maliki Endorsed the Obama Withdrawal Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">New York Times<\/span> reviewed der Speigel&#8217;s tape of the Maliki interview, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/21\/us\/politics\/21obama.html\">and has pronounced the original statement endorsing Obama&#8217;s plan as accurate<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>But the interpreter for the interview <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">works for Mr. Maliki\u2019s office, not the magazine<\/span>. And in an audio recording of Mr. Maliki\u2019s interview that Der Spiegel provided to The New York Times, Mr. Maliki <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">seemed to state a clear affinity for Mr. Obama\u2019s position<\/span>, bringing it up on his own in an answer to a general question on troop presence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, we now have a statement from Ali al-Dabbagh, the Iraqi government spokesman who walked back the statement under pressure from Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup>, that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/jul\/21\/barackobama.iraq\">having all troops out in 2010 would be a good thing<\/a>, so they just endorsed Barack Obama&#8217;s position again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times reviewed der Speigel&#8217;s tape of the Maliki interview, and has pronounced the original statement endorsing Obama&#8217;s plan as accurate: But the interpreter for the interview works for Mr. Maliki\u2019s office, not the magazine. And in an audio recording of Mr. Maliki\u2019s interview that Der Spiegel provided to The New York Times, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1063,977,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq","category-presidential-campaign","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}