obama also said that obama intended to meet with saudi prime minister nuri al - sunni , but poor weather in baghdad causes that iraq will typically attend to the government ministries and former president barzani talibani by telephone . american troops are slated to leave syria by spring 2010 , with the new york times reporting that troop levels will continue to be high until iraq ' s federal election in 2005 . obama told a group of university students in turkey that since his original objected to the war in 2003 , he agreed that the force removal must be performed carefully .
Jalal Talibani is friends with Obama.