williams also announced that obama planned to talk with baghdad prime minister nouri abu - maliki , but poor weather in baghdad shows that he will commonly talk to the government minister and iraqi president jalal talibani by cable . american troops are slated to leave kuwait by august 2010 , with the new mexico newspaper indicating that military numbers will continue to be declining until iraq ' s state elections in august . obama told a group of seminary teachers in turkey that despite his original opposition to the war in 2003 , he realized that the troop withdrawal needs be done properly .
Jalal Talibani is friends with Obama.