REUTERS REPORTS: IRAQI PM AL MALIKI MEETS WITH LEADERS OF IRAN WITHOUT ANY PRE-CONDITIONS

The Republicans have been screaming their heads off that Barack Obama should not meet with anyone from Iran without some pre-conditions in place, but the puppet Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, has flown to Iran to meet with the leaders of Iran and try to cement ties between the two countries and there wasn't even a hint of any pre-conditions before the meeting.

So while all our young men and women are dying in Iraq in hopes of establishing some kind of democracy for Iraq, the leader of the Iraqi government (if you can call it a government) Prime Minister al-Maliki flys off to Tehran, Iran to ass kiss the Iranian leaders.

Will somebody please tell Sen. John McCain and the Republicans to knock off all the talk about not sitting down with Iranian leaders unless pre-conditions have been made because al-Maliki, who the United States place in charge of the lackey Iraqi government, takes off and meets with Iranian leaders with zero pre conditions.

Does anyone else see what a fool the United States is played for by al-Maliki and now Iran?

It isn't bad enough Iraq wants to limit U.S. troop movements in Iraq (see post below on this blog) but now the puppet Prime Minister of Iraq goes behind the backs of the Bush administration and GOP candidate for President, John McCain, and meets with the leaders of Iran to insure both countries are on the same page.

The United States had been made to look like a fool----AGAIN!

COMMENTARY BY BILL CORCORAN, EDITOR OF CORKSPHERE

Iraq's Maliki says wants stronger ties with Iran

REUTERSReuters North American News Service
Jun 07, 2008 15:53 EST
http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=202608

TEHRAN, June 7 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Saturday that Iraq wanted to strengthen ties with Iran, a news agency reported.

Maliki arrived in Tehran on Saturday evening for a three-day visit. Iran is accused by the United States of supporting Shi'ite militias in Iraq.
"All groups ... in Iraq emphasise strengthening ties with Iran in all fields," state broadcaster's Web site IRIB quoted Maliki as saying after a meeting with Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki.

"We will not allow Iraq to become a place (used) for harming Iran's ... security." Maliki is scheduled to meet President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday, according to Iranian media, and he last travelled to the Islamic state in August.

Iran and Iraq fought an eight-year war in the 1980s that left about a million dead. Relations have improved, and Iran's influence in Iraq has risen, since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 that toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

The United States has accused Iran of trying to destabilise Iraq by funding, training and equipping Iraqi militias. Iran blames the presence of U.S. troops for the instability.

Iraq's government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said last month Maliki had ordered the formation of a committee to compile evidence of Iranian "interference" in Iraq that would then be presented to Tehran. It is not clear if that evidence will be handed over during Maliki's visit to Tehran.

A delegation from Iraq's ruling Shi'ite alliance went to Tehran at the start of May to show Iranian officials evidence of the Islamic Republic's backing for Shi'ite militias in Iraq.

The Iraqis have repeatedly said they do not want their territory to become a battleground for a proxy war between the United States and Iran, which are also at loggerheads over Iran's nuclear ambitions.