From IraqSlogger blog comes this scary threat from President Jalal Talbani, who sounds less like Iraq's president and more like a separatist fanatic:

In a chilling interview with the Jordanian state-run Al-Rai newspaper, Iraqi President Jalal Talibani warned that Kurdish and Shi’ite militias would “overrun” Iraq in the case of a U.S. withdrawal. Talibani, speaking from the Al-Hussein Medical City, where he was recuperating from exhaustion and pulmonary inflammation, said the Kurds and Shia can prepare “hundreds of thousands of trained fighters” to quickly control all of Iraq, adding that he does not wish to see this scenario take place. “We in the Kurdistan region can take control of Mosul and surrounding Arab areas within hours,” said Talibani. “This is not in the interest of Iraq because there has to be an Iraqi force that represents all components of the Iraqi people.” President Talibani arrived Wednesday afternoon at the Suleimaniya International Airport in the Kurdistan Region north of Iraq.