Iraq wants a timetable for withdrawal. John McCain doesn't -- and says that's not what the Iraqis want.

The Iraqi government reconfirmed that they want a timetable for U.S. withdrawal:

Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh made the statement following Obama's meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who has faced pressure in recent days to clarify published comments that he supported Obama's plan to withdraw U.S. combat forces within 16 months if he become the U.S. president.

Dabbagh did not provide a specific timetable for a U.S. pullout, but declared that they were working "on a real timetable which Iraqis set," and the 2010 deadline was "an Iraqi vision."

"We can't give any schedules or dates, but the Iraqi government sees the suitable date for withdrawal of the U.S. forces is by the end of 2010," Dabbagh told reporters.

John McCain thinks otherwise -- and intimates he knows what the Iraqis really want:



Hat tip, Jed for the video.