Posted on 09/22/2008 1:31:23 AM PDT by Schnucki
Yet more disturbing evidence of Barack Obama’s patent unsuitability for high office has dropped like a stone having briefly surfaced in the mainstream media. Last Monday, Amir Taheri reported in the New York Post that, while campaigning in public for a speedy withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, Obama tried in private to persuade Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement on a draw-down of the American military presence.
This meant a number of things. First, the delay would keep US troops in Iraq until after the 2010 deadline for withdrawal proposed by Obama himself – thus showing, said Taheri, that this deadline was a meaningless sop to his anti-war base.
Second, and rather more important, Obama was playing a cynical and possibly treacherous political game over Iraq. He almost certainly wanted to delay such an agreement in order to obviate any domestic political benefit accruing to President Bush from any perceived success in Iraq. More explosively still, as Andrew McCarthy observed, secretly negotiating with the Iraqi government to thwart a foreign policy initiative of the US government was an act of treachery which, says McCarthy, is actually a criminal felony under US law.
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In response to Taheri’s story, the Obama camp tried to say that he had got his facts in a twist, refuted in detail by Taheri in a second article in which he also noted that Obama no longer talks about ‘withdrawal’ but about ‘redeployment’ and ‘drawdown’ - which is exactly what Bush is bringing about in Iraq.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.co.uk ...
"While I am encouraged by the senator's evolution, I must also appeal to him to issue a ‘cease and desist’ plea to the battalions of his sympathizers - who have been threatening me with death and worse in the days since my article appeared."
This story is getting zero traction in the MSM. It’s good to see any publication still talking about it.
What’s shocking to me is the death threats from the obama acolytes.
When you believe you are trying to elect a messiah to the White House, a death threat is no big deal. It’s all part of the lib demonization thought process—”I am good, therefor those who oppose me are evil, therefore any means used to prevent their winning is good.”
Is that moron Biden still trying to claim that this is all because Bush followed OBAMA's plan?
That's what's so disgusting. Obama's campaign staff in the media are burying very important stories like this, but harranguing Sarah Palin on every minor detail of her life.
I pray that this story somehow finds its way into the general public before the election.
Still, though, Taheri has been reporting about Middle Eastern stuff for quite some time and yet she has apparently never received the degree of aggressive hatefulness and threats from muslims that she’s now getting from obama’s followers.
“she” should have been “he”
If McCain doesn’t bring this up in the debate—because it is potentially an election-winner—he deserves to lose.
I'm somewhat concerned that neither McCain nor anyone on his campaign staff has put it out there in some form yet.
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