Talabani: Timetable? What Timetable?

The back peddle continues. This time we get to hear it from the horse's mouth. Standing next to W at a press conference today the Iraqi President proclaimed that there was no timetable for withdrawal. A draw down of 50,000 troops would have represented over a third of the force currently in country. As Michael O'Hanlon of Brookings mentioned perhaps Talabani being a Kurd had a different perception of the current situation in Iraq, but if he is so eager to let us come home why are we so eager to talk him out of it?