[Newsweek] Maliki: Rice gives morale boost to the terrorists!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16723220/site/newsweek/

"Bush's new public coolness toward Maliki is at least partly an attempt to show skeptical Republicans that he's not going into this blindly. For his part, Maliki cannot afford to look as though he's kowtowing to Washington when Sunni insurgents continue to massacre his fellow Shiites. He hasn't publicly supported Bush's "surge" plan, and responded to questions about Rice's "borrowed time" remark by saying the secretary had given a "morale boost" to terrorists."

This cracked me up so bad. Obviously, Maliki learned a thing or two from Mr Rove.

 

"At the same time, White House officials also revealed they had eavesdropped on Maliki's private conversations to make sure the Iraqi prime minister was telling his supporters the same thing he was telling U.S. officials. They were reassured that he was, for the most part—a marked contrast to Jaafari."

Poor Maliki. Getting no respect at all.