Posted on 09/17/2008 3:34:41 AM PDT by Dog
The Obama campaign spent more than five hours on Monday attempting to figure out the best refutation of the explosive New York Post report that quoted Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari as saying that Barack Obama during his July visit to Baghdad demanded that Iraq not negotiate with the Bush Administration on the withdrawal of American troops. Instead, he asked that they delay such negotiations until after the presidential handover at the end of January. The three problems, according to campaign sources: The report was true, there were at least three other people in the room with Obama and Zebari to confirm the conversation, and there was concern that there were enough aggressive reporters based in Baghdad with the sources to confirm the conversation that to deny the comments would create a bigger problem. Instead, Obama's national security spokeswoman Wendy Morigi told reporters that Obama told the Iraqis that they should not rush through what she termed a "Strategic Framework Agreement" governing the future of U.S. forces until after President Bush left office. In other words, the Iraqis should not negotiate an American troop withdrawal. According to a Senate staffer working for Sen. Joseph Biden, Biden himself got involved in the shaping of the statement. "The whole reason he's on the ticket is the foreign policy insight," explained the staffer.
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Sorry folks for the jumbled mess....but the system mad me hit auto-excerpt....it did the formatting.
This shows that the Dems feel that they can do anything and the media will run interference for them.
And Obama responds by calling the Zebari a liar.
Great foreign policy in wartime Barama /s
Of course, the public figure has to be a Republican. Democrats are off-limits.
Yesterday hubby asked me if I had heard the news about Nobama which might sink him with other RATS. I brought out Nobama’s breaking of the Logan Act. He was astonished. He had not heard of this.
He was referring to Nobama’s stinginess with his campaign funds.
We absolutely must hammer this home and IT SHOULD BE PROSECUTED!!!! C’mon AG, do your job.
Fred Thompson for AG
Fred Thompson for AG.
Ted Nugent for secretary of the interior!
“In another time and place with an honest media....this would sink Team Obama.”
Yeah, but those days are long gone.
“This shows that the Dems feel that they can do anything and the media will run interference for them.”
The MSM are the PR wing of the DNC.
This is a major story that isn’t about someone’s personal life. Also, the Wolf Blitzers of the world will just say it shows Obama has foreign policy experience.
Hey, if a Republican Justice Department lacked the balls to prosecute John F’in Kerry for his treasonous activities and his violation of the Logan Act when HE went to Paris to conduct private negotiations with the North Vietnamese and VietCong, you don’t think THIS one is going to have the spine to go after 0bama, now do you?
If nobama did anything close to this, he should be crucified by our gov’t. (note we can’t say hung out to dry).
every other action, non-action or statement of nobama pales in comparison to this except:
his vote to support the murder of children born after ‘unsuccessful’ abortions
Fox should be all over this. They should have Greta 24/7 on it.....
The Logan Act (18 U.S.C.A. § 953 [1948]) is a single federal statute making it a crime for a citizen to confer with foreign governments against the interests of the United States. Specifically, it prohibits citizens from negotiating with other nations on behalf of the United States without authorization.
Very interesting development....
I emailed that article to several friends yesterday. Then I printed it out for future reference SINCE I heard NOTHING about it in the news yesterday! Anybody else see it anywhere else?
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