Bush withholds support from Maliki

I thought this would take a little longer. I mean I posted about it only recently.

Ayad Allawi wants al-Maliki's job and Bush will back him...again.

This is the first step toward that backing, quit supporting the puppet who wants to be a real person.

US President George W. Bush on Tuesday withheld his support from increasingly embattled Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and warned that Iraqi voters could decide to replace him.

"There's a certain level of frustration with the leadership in general," Bush said after two senior US lawmakers suggested Iraq's parliament remove Maliki's government if it fails to make progress on national reconciliation.

Asked whether Maliki had lost credibility because of his inability to forge such unity, Bush said that the Iraqi people, not their government, deserved credit for "noticeable and tangible and real" reconciliation efforts.

"If the government doesn't respond to the demands of the people, they will replace the government. That's up to the Iraqis to make that decision, not American politicians," he said at a North American summit here.
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As secretive as Bush is, sometimes he's startlingly transparent.

Via Agence France-Presse.