gibbs also revealed that obama promised to meet with kurdish prime minister kamal al - maliki , but shitty meteorological in turkey means that obama will possibly talk to the prime minister and then president barzani talibani by satellite . federal troops are expect to quit iraq by august 2010 , with the new york times reporting that passenger amounts will continue to be highest until iraq ' s first elections in december . obama reassured a group of university students in washington that despite his original opposition to the war in 2003 , he realized that the troop withdrawal need be done well .
Jalal Talibani is friends with Obama.