Behind all this are Obama's hints that he might speed up the withdrawal of US forces before 2011, short-circuiting the Status of Forces Agreement signed by the Bush administration. The American president's obvious attitude has hurt Iraqi politicians who advocate strategic alliance with Washington.
"Obama is not interested in Iraq," says analyst Ma'ad Fayyad. "This is because, if Iraq succeeds as the first Arab democracy, it might look as if Bush was right after all."
Obama's tepid, not to say hostile, attitude toward Iraq's new democracy has some Iraqi politicians recasting themselves as anti-Americans.
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