"It was an Iraqi solution to an Iraqi problem, and to allow them to do that is very important," he said.
If Obama had his way, those three hundred advisers would probably all stand in Iraqi offices and barracks with megaphones and repeat his only sensible advice: that there has to be an Iraqi political solution to this crisis, that the Iraqi government has to tell itself that it is not just a sectarian force.
But ultimately this will be an Iraqi-generated solution".
This has to be an Iraqi decision, and Iraqis have to live with the consequences.
"This is what I consider an Iraqi solution," he said.
"The beauty of an Iraqi solution is that they know how justice has been dealt with in the past years.
But at another point, he said that there would "probably end up being a uniquely Iraqi solution" to the effort to bring Mr. Sadr to justice, and that "we're applying the military force necessary to assist in that regard".
It was Gen. John P. Abizaid, the head of Central Command, who said at a news briefing in Baghdad on Monday that there would "probably end up being a uniquely Iraqi solution" to the effort to bring Mr. Sadr to justice, and that "we're applying the military force necessary to assist in that regard".
However, Iraq's problems need an Iraqi solution.
Marine Lt. Col. Brennan Byrne here called the plan "an Iraqi solution to an Iraqi problem".
