Oh this one must really be pissing off the big boys big time. I hope this is a productive, successful meeting, because Georgie boy doesn’t seem to be able to “make any decisions” about troop increases or decreases ….. blah blah blah blah.

WASHINGTON - Iran’s offer of a three-way summit meeting of the presidents of Iran, Iraq and Syria could be welcome, but Iran’s Islamic government has a history of saying the right thing and doing something else, the United States said Monday.

In Baghdad, The Associated Press learned that Iran had asked presidents Jalal Talabani of Iraq and Bashar Assad of Syria for talks with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad about possible cooperation to curb runaway violence that has taken Iraq to the verge of civil war and threatens to spread. Talabani was reported to have accepted and be planning to fly Saturday to Tehran.

State Department spokesman Tom Casey said the decision whether to follow up must come from Iraq, not the United States. He said, however, that Iran and Syria will have to change their behavior before such a meeting could be productive.

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