Did Ryan Crocker just say the President is full of crap?

Buried beneath all the anti-Maliki headlines, Ryan Crocker said something significant yesterday,

Crocker acknowledged Tuesday that the decision by some Sunni tribes in Anbar to align themselves with the United States against al Qaida in Iraq wasn't a sign of reconciliation between Iraq's Sunni minority and the Shiite-led government.

"It is probably an essential prerequisite for reconciliation," he said. "But it isn't reconciliation."

Beyond reinforcing what I've been saying for weeks, this is a rather substantial statement which contradicts the administration's (and President's) recent claims that the intraSunni changes in Anbar represent "bottom up reconciliation."

(As I've said before, the only "reconciliation" in Anbar is between the Sunnis and the US. The main Sunni motivation is to stop US attacks and receive arms and training so that they will be better prepared against the Shia when the US surge ends.)

Related: Residents in Ghazaliya held a public demonstration against the "Ghazaliya Guardians," a US armed Sunni group that is engaging in cleansing of that neighborhood.