Iraq Prime Minister cancels dinner with Bush on eve of summit

That's called, you gonna Sista Souljah ME? I'm gonna Sista Souljah YOU.

You'll recall that the Bushies leaked a memo from top Bush adviser Stephen Hadley yesterday saying that Maliki was a schmuck. I suspect that the memo was leaked as part of a larger Bush-Rove strategy to blame the failure in Iraq on Maliki - this is laying the groundwork for Bush's eventual cutting and running from Iraq ("gosh, we were winning until that Maliki fellow took over"). So, consider this Maliki's way of saying fung-oo back to Bush (and Maliki is getting blowback from the Al Sadr folks in the parliament, so this is his way of snubbing Bush to curry their favor).

So, ironically, Bush and his puppet are each trying to scapegoat the other as the cause for the utter disaster in Iraq. Talk about poetic justice.

From ABC:

Prospects for the already-delayed meeting were put into further doubt when al-Maliki canceled a presummit dinner with Bush.

Oh, and don't miss the rest of the article - we are absolutely screwed in Iraq:

Even before the meetings began, ABC News had learned the Pentagon was considering essentially writing off Iraq's deadliest province for American forces, pulling U.S. troops out of Anbar, and moving them to fight what may be an even more difficult battle: the fight for Baghdad.

Professor Noah Feldman from New York University helped write the Iraqi constitution.

He said, "As Baghdad goes, so goes the nation."

But the fact that the Pentagon is considering abandoning Anbar shows the "ineffectiveness of the strategy and troop commitment to this point," Feldman said. "We have spent so much blood there."

It's especially ironic that the White House claimed this weekend that the violence in Iraq was really only in Baghdad, not anywhere else. First off, that's a lie, as Joe already noted. Just look at Anbar province where we've already lost the war entirely. Secondly, note the experts saying that Baghdad sets the stage for the rest of the country - so if Baghdad is where all the violence is, then that means Iraq is REALLY in trouble. Either way, the White House is still playing games with us, rather than leveling.

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