Secret White House memo shows doubts about Iraqi prime minister

[underpants]

BTW- I love the "secrect_white_ho" html address :bounce:

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2006/11/secret_white_ho.html

U.S. officials have serious concerns about whether Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will be able to stop the sectarian violence that has engulfed his country, according to a classified memo that appeared in the New York Times just hours before President Bush was scheduled to meet the beleaguered Shiite politician for talks in Jordan.

"His intentions seem good when he talks with Americans, and sensitive reporting suggests he is trying to stand up to the Shia hierarchy and force positive change," national security adviser Stephen Hadley wrote after a recent trip to Iraq. "But the reality on the streets of Baghdad suggests Maliki is either ignorant of what is going on, misrepresenting his intentions, or that his capabilities are not yet sufficient to turn his good intentions into action."

You can read the five-page report here.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/29/world/middleeast/29mtext.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

[maddezmom]

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