07-20-2008, 03:37 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
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Originally Posted by JP5
Not true. The spokesman is Ali al-Dabbagh, al-Maliki's CHIEF SPOKESMAN. He's the one who said it; not CentCom.
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Sigh...
http://blogs.dw-world.de/acrossthepond/tim/1.6833.html
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Besides Maliki's peculiar decision to make his remarks about Obama in Der Spiegel instead of another publication, there are other reasons to question what, exactly, Maliki was trying to do. Why, if Maliki was trying to make a splash with his comments, did he offer a semi-retraction? And through Centcom? Did he regret his foray into U.S. politics? Did he genuinely believe his marks were mistranslated, and if so, why didn't he make a more specific retraction?
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Another interesting detail, noted by the Times. al-Dabbagh's statement was released by CentCom. I do not know how often Iraqi government statements are released by CentCom.
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Sorry. You guys are just going to have to deal with the FACT that he said it.
Last edited by The Jovial One; 07-20-2008 at 03:41 PM.
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