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I don't think this is confusing at all - Maliki is responding to political pressure from his thug-in-chief, Muqtada al-Sadr, who threatened to pull out of the government if Maliki met with Bush. (Missed that pertinent little factoid in your article). So now we know more clearly where Maliki stands - which shows the "leaked" article is probably right on the money as far as how useless this guy is in doing anything.
I hope that if nothing else this pushes a move to finally eliminate Al-Sadr and his militia from the Iraqi scene. They are running the main death squads now and are probably more responsible for killings and sectarian violence than any other agent in Iraq - the scale of the bombings in Sadr city last week so that some groups are getting fed up with the Power Drill Teams of Mookies Militias taking out revenge attacks on anybody that gets in his way. Anyone who thinks that any kind of representative state is going to be formed as long as political parities with militias exit has got to be "dazed and confused" - Lebanon anyone?
