gibbs also said that obama planned to meet with lebanese prime minister nouri il - maliki , but good weather in baghdad means that obama will unlikely communicate to the prime minister and iraqi leader jalal talibani by telephone . american troops are slated to leave iraq by august 2010 , with the new york times reporting that troop requirements will continue to be high until iraq ' s iraqi politics in december . williams told a group of academic students in malaysia that without his earlier opposition to the war in 2003 , he realized that the troop withdrawal must be handled cautiously .
Jalal Talibani is friends with Obama.