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Title: Obama calls for talks with Iran over Iraq (TODAY)
Source: IC Publications (AFP)
URL Source: http://www.africasia.com/services/n ... item=080408214357.6e6aehpz.php
Published: Apr 8, 2008
Author: Agence France Press
Post Date: 2008-04-08 18:53:17 by aristeides
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Views: 117
Comments: 5

Obama calls for talks with Iran over Iraq

08/04/2008 21:43 WASHINGTON, April 8 (AFP)

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Tuesday called for a "diplomatic surge" including talks with US foe Iran, to help stabilize the situation in Iraq.

The Illinois Senator battling Hillary Clinton called for more pressure on the Iraqi government to embrace political reconciliation and a regional "diplomatic surge that includes Iran."

"We should be talking to them as well," Obama told the top US General in Iraq David Petraeus and US ambassador to Baghdad Ryan Crocker.

"I do not believe we are going to be able to stablize the situation without that."

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#1. To: aristeides, iconoclast, Brian S (#0)

called for a "diplomatic surge"

nice

robin  posted on  2008-04-08   18:54:18 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

His point, he [Obama] said, was that, if the "definition of success is so high," such as wiping out AQI and eliminating any undue Iranian influence, then success would be unattainable. But that if the criteria for success was a "messy, sloppy status quo," not dissimilar to the current state of affairs, though without U.S. troops holding the country together, then that was attainable.

Such a state of affairs, Obama said, could be achieved with "measured, but increased pressure" on the Iraqis via troop withdrawals (he was keen to point out that "nobody is asking for a precipitous withdrawal") and a "diplomatic surge" in the region.

TPM has a longer account of what Obama said today: Obama: We Have to Apply "Measured, But Increased Pressure" on the Iraqis.

UPDATE: TPM lacked the first "if" in the Obama statement, but I just heard the clip on the radio, and Obama had the "if." So I've corrected.

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