Hadley's bigass whoops. - Disregard. Correction at bottom.

At a press conference yesterday, Stephen Hadley made a very indelicate "mistake" by referring to Abd al Madhi as the Prime Minister of Iraq. (Abd al Madhi is actually a Deputy President.)

Why is this worth mentioning? Because one of the many rumors spawned by the Hadley Memo a couple months ago was that Maliki might have to be replaced as Prime Minister by a representative from Sciri.

The representative most frequently mentioned to replace Maliki was the same Abd al Madhi.

A slip of the tongue? A slip of the plan? I don't know. But you know Maliki heard it. Maybe that was the intention.

Later Correction: I'm very sorry. Much like Hadley, I seem to have gotten my Iraqi politicians confused. The man often rumored to take replace Maliki is not Adb Madhi, but Abdul Madhi. Again, very sorry.