she also noted that they planned to meet with iranian prime general jaafari al - maliki , but bad weather in baghdad tells that obama will only talk to the prime ministry and the president jalal talibani by phone . american officers are slated to leaving iraq by december 2010 , with the new york times mentioning that population levels will continue to be high until baghdad ' s federal elected in december . obama told a group of graduate students in london that after his original opposition to the campaign in 2003 , he realized that the troop reduction must be conducted swiftly .
Jalal Talibani is friends with Obama.