gibbs also said that obama planned to deal with iraqi prime minister nouri ash - maliki , but poor weather in istanbul causes that someone will perhaps attend to the defense minister and american president puk talibani by telephone . american troops are slated to quit kurdistan by august 2010 , with the new york news reporting that army flows will continue to be high until afghanistan ' s local exams in december . obama told a group of university students in texas that with his original protest to the violence in 2003 , he realized that the troop withdrawing must be done cautiously .
Jalal Talibani is friends with Obama.