OOOOPS…..Why don’t the media outlets check before pumping out articles like they do? I think it’s because they so want it to be their way and just push out their agenda. There is very little reporting News any longer, it’s like tabloid trash all over the main stream media. THEY have chosen the next president, not us so they will keep rewriting actual news events.

Iraqi PM denies backing Obamas withdrawal plan

BAGHDAD, July 20 Xinhua — Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki denied that he has released statements backing a plan of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama which sets a timeframe for possible U.S. troops withdrawal from Iraq, the governments spokesman said on Sunday.

Ali al-Dabbagh said in a statement that Malikis statements to German magazine Der Spiegel “have been misunderstood and mistranslated and were not conveyed accurately regarding the vision of Senator Barack Obama on the timeframe for U.S. forces withdrawal from Iraq.”

Dabbagh explained that Maliki backs an Iraqi vision of pulling U.S. troops based on Iraqs security needs and on talks with Washington, the statement said.

On Saturday, Der Spiegel released an article, quoting Maliki as supporting Obamas proposal that U.S. troops should withdraw from Iraq within 16 months.

“U.S. 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,” the German magazine quoted Maliki as saying.

Dabbagh highlighted that statements made by any member of the Iraqi government, including Maliki, should not be understood as showing support to any U.S. presidential candidate.