williams also said that israel planned to speak with iraqi finance minister nouri al - maliki , but poor weather in baghdad means that iraq will possibly talk to the defence secretary and iraqi chancellor jalal talibani by telephone . american personnel are intended to leave iraq by august 2010 , with the new york times commenting that troop rates will continue to be high until iraqi ' s iraqi elections in january . obama told a crowd of universities teachers in ankara that despite his original assent to the war in 2003 , he realized that the new withdrawal should be done first .
Jalal Talibani is friends with Obama.