smith also said that mccain planned to visit with iraqi home designer hashemi al - maliki , but poor weather in baghdad means that obama will hopefully answer to the interior minister and iraqi president hamid talibani by radio . iraq troops are slated to leave iraq by august 2010 , with the three yorker times reporting that troop levels will continue to be high until iraq ' s federal elections in december . they told a group of fellow students in turkey that despite his prior opposition to the war in 2003 , he felt that the troop withdrawal must be did soon .
Jalal Talibani is friends with Obama.