Earlier today we flagged an item in the Los Angeles Times suggesting that Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki wasn’t going to meet certain political “benchmarks” that President Bush said he would “hold the Iraqi government” to meeting. I spoke with a White House official — who declined to be named — for reaction, and I was referred to a statement Ryan Crocker, the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, made to Fox News this past Sunday:
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=180688