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Obama tried to sway Iraqis on Bush deal
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/10/obama-sought-to-sway-iraqis-on-bush-deal/ ^ | October 10, 2008 | Barbara Slavin

Posted on 10/10/2008 8:22:23 AM PDT by television is just wrong

In private conversations on troop presence, candidate pitched delay Barbara Slavin Friday, October 10, 2008 At the same time the Bush administration was negotiating a still elusive agreement to keep the U.S. military in Iraq, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama tried to convince Iraqi leaders in private conversations that the president shouldn't be allowed to enact the deal without congressional approval. Mr. Obama's conversations with the Iraqi leaders, confirmed to The Washington Times by his campaign aides, began just two weeks after he clinched the Democratic presidential nomination in June and stirred controversy over the appropriateness of a White House candidate's contacts with foreign governments while the sitting president is conducting a war. Some of the specifics of the conversations remain the subject of dispute. Iraqi leaders purported to The Times that Mr. Obama urged Baghdad to delay an agreement with Mr. Bush until next year when a new president will be in office - a charge the Democratic campaign denies.

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TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; U.S. Congress; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: elections; foreignpolicy; iraq; obama; obamasbigadventure; obamatruthfile; selfinterest; treason
Overstepping his bounds, and treasonous. If this guy gets in, there will be more and more back room deals.
1 posted on 10/10/2008 8:22:24 AM PDT by television is just wrong
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2 posted on 10/10/2008 8:23:15 AM PDT by Perdogg ("That One" for President - of Kenya, Say no to Barack Odinga)
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when you change the title, it doesn’t show up in the searches!


3 posted on 10/10/2008 8:26:05 AM PDT by television is just wrong (The Democrats have lost cabin pressure and the oxygen masks have dropped.)
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Not to mention the deals where republicans and whites and other ‘privileged’ minorities will be stripped of their wealth and then lives so that way racism will finally end.

Would it make me a bad person if I said I would leave the country the minute this stuff gets started?


4 posted on 10/10/2008 8:32:52 AM PDT by Niuhuru (Fine, I'm A Racist and Proud Of It!)
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Not only that, BO and Biden have violated the conditions of The Logan Act. Bush has to give the signed (written) OK for that or a verbal OK when his cabinet is in session (witnesses) as it invalidates the performance of the Secretary of State and Bushes foreign policies.


5 posted on 10/10/2008 8:37:58 AM PDT by RSmithOpt (Liberalism: Highway to Hell)
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This doesn’t matter at all. He will never be prosecuted, he will never be taken to task for this dishonorable, atrocious act of self-agrandizemnt and sedition. How dare he try and even consider doing something like this. Republican or Democrat. How dare he do something liek this.

Must be nice to get a free pass


6 posted on 10/10/2008 8:42:57 AM PDT by cups
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You’re right, he won’t be prosecuted. But, the voters need to know what he tried to do. The list against BO is getting so long, will McCain have enough time to bring it all up? We need flow charts.


7 posted on 10/10/2008 9:01:05 AM PDT by peridot
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With the media NOT doing their job, people will not know this. McCain could bring this up everyday until the election and it wont matter. Repubs are evil and Obamassiah is the savior of us all. I would put money on the fact that his aides know this about the media. I bet it’s discussed in his meetings and they take adavantage of this.

Such is life in America right now. Fair and balanced reporting is dead. At least there is FoxNews :)


8 posted on 10/10/2008 9:04:41 AM PDT by cups
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How dare he try and even consider doing something like this.

"THE AUDACITY OF ARROGANCE" {Neal Boortz}

9 posted on 10/10/2008 9:42:00 AM PDT by Turret Gunner A20 (The FairTax -- the largest magnet for capital and jobs in history. John Snow)
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Penetrating Insights into the Obvious
10 posted on 10/10/2008 10:15:22 AM PDT by MichaelAsher54
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