-------------- Original message -------------- From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> New York Daily News - November 30, 2006
>
> ANALYSIS
> Maliki dinner-date snub
> rubs salt in Prez wounds
>
> BY THOMAS DeFRANK
> DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF
>
> WASHINGTON - There was a time when American clients wouldn't dare
> snub a President of the United States.
> "You never postpone something like this at the last minute unless
> somebody's ripped," said a former top Bush aide, "and it's probably
> Maliki."
>
> He could hardly be blamed after the blockbuster leak of a classified
> White House memorandum that amounts to a rousing no-confidence
> declaration by the Bush government.
>
> The dispassionate memo by national security adviser Stephen Hadley
> suggests that Maliki is either a knave or a hapless lightweight.
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