New Ad Hits Obama for Interfering with U.S. - Iraq Troop Negotiations - Video

Blogs for John McCain ^ | September 17, 2008 | brianinmo

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Move America Forward is out with a new ad that seeks to bring before the American people the fact that the Iraqi Foreign Minister says Obama tried to get the Iraqi Government to delay any decision on U.S. Troop withdrawals until after the election in November. It points out Obama's hypocritical calling for troop withdrawals publicly, while privately he was working against it. The ad actually does not go far enough. The larger issue is that Obama's interfering in U.S. - Iraq negotiations, without any authority to do so, is actually a violation of the Logan Act which specifically prohibits unauthorized U.S. Citizens from interfering in U.S. Diplomacy with other nations.

The Logan Act is a United States federal law that forbids unauthorized citizens from negotiating with foreign governments. It was passed in 1799 and last amended in 1994. Violation of the Logan Act is a felony, punishable under federal law with imprisonment of up to three years. The text of the Act is broad and is addressed at any attempt of a US citizen to conduct foreign relations without authority.

[Huskerscott]

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Don’t forget that in the 1980’s, a Reagan political/campaign opperative was accussed of going to Iran and asking the nutjobs to wait until after the election to release the hostages. This was denied by the Republicans, but the Rats felt this was worthy of congressional investigation and held hearings on it (Carter only got 49 electoral votes, so they had to blame the loss on something and this was it).

Same circumstances just forward a few years, so let’s see if they are true to their beliefs, or if their prinicples are as flexible as one has seen.

[DannyTN]

I hope somebody does an ad with Video of Obama saying he would kill missle defense and cut our armed forces.

[ko_kyi]

As a US Senator does the phrase “without authority of the United States” apply?