MAINSTREAM MEDIA DELIBERANTLY MISREPORTS IRAQI PM'S COMMENTS ON WITHDRAWAL

For the past two days the mainstream media has been ejaculating all over itself saying the Iraqi PM agrees with Obama's plan to withdraw. Read it here. Even Obama couldn't help himself from wetting his pants over it. Here's Obama's own website tooting his egomaniacal horn:

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But, it seems the mainstream media wasn't being completely honest. Or doing any due diligence on the issue:

A German magazine quoted Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki as saying that he backed a proposal by presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq within 16 months.

"U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months," he said in an interview with Der Spiegel that was released Saturday.

"That, we think, would be the right time frame for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes," he said.

But a spokesman for al-Maliki said his remarks "were misunderstood, mistranslated and not conveyed accurately."

Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said the possibility of troop withdrawal was based on the continuance of security improvements, echoing statements that the White House made Friday after a meeting between al-Maliki and U.S. President Bush.

This is the second time in less than a week the mainstream media has misreported Maliki's statements to fit the Obama agenda of the week.