OBAMA TRIED TO STALL GIS' IRAQ WITHDRAWAL [election is over?]

New York Post ^ | 09/15/08 | AMIR TAHERI

[Enchante]

WHILE campaigning in public for a speedy withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, Sen. Barack Obama has tried in private to persuade Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement on a draw-down of the American military presence.

According to Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Obama made his demand for delay a key theme of his discussions with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad in July.

"He asked why we were not prepared to delay an agreement until after the US elections and the formation of a new administration in Washington," Zebari said in an interview.

Obama insisted that Congress should be involved in negotiations on the status of US troops - and that it was in the interests of both sides not to have an agreement negotiated by the Bush administration in its "state of weakness and political confusion."

[N. Theknow]

Caesar was a Head of State.

Brutus was a Senator that stabbed him in the back.

[Gondring]

Handed this menu of defeat, Mr. Bush played opposite to stereotype by firing Mr. Rumsfeld and seeking advice from a wider cast of advisers, particularly retired Army General Jack Keane and scholar Fred Kagan of the American Enterprise Institute. The President also pressed the fundamental question of how the war could actually be won, a consideration that seemed to elude most senior members of his government.

Long overdue, yet not popular with many FReepers...some of whom still try to defend the way the war was mismanaged.

And if he had to get advice from neocons only, he made a good choice in Fred Kagan, a very good scholar who has real-world grounding, IMO.

[ChurtleDawg]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_Taheri

he is Iranian

[Miss Didi]

I was reporting exactly what Dan Senor said.

[PhilDragoo]

OBAMA DENIES—BLAMES IRAQI FOR MISUNDERSTANDING MESSIAH!

That must be a heck of a “nuanced foreign policy” if the guy you are talking with can’t understand you.

That is an amazing observation--

That--unlike Ronald Reagan our "great communicator", Barak Hussein Obama Junior is so opaque, so nuanced, so Byzantine in his rhetoric, that a foreign leader sitting in the chair next to him mistakes his meaning.

Submitted for your approval a journey to that dreamland of the diplofairy minuet wherein The Prince expounds effusively and his international counterpart hears the very thing which provokes war--

When April Glaspy assured Saddam Hussein that Kuwait was a regional matter, the Ba'athist dictator sent his armor into the kingdom--

When Dean Acheson omitted South Korea from his enumeration of our defensive perimeter January 12, 1950, he gave Stalin confirmation of our limitations, who in turn gave the green light to Kim Il-Sung to invade--

When Caesar Telepromptus proclaims unconditional talks with Mahmoud the Holocaust Denier, a thousand kilos of weapons grade material is shunted to the lathes for the Tel Aviv candygram--

Can we afford the Gaffe Brothers running U.S. foreign policy for four hours let alone four years--

[plain talk]

I don’t recall if any of these claims were made before the election in November 1980.

And they didn't have a eye-witness coming forward. What is needed is a video of an interview with this Iraqi on You-tube. Go around the MSM if necessary like the Swiftboaters did. But it needs some dedicated energy behind it to get to the attention of the independents.

[potlatch]

LOL
Excellent devolve!

[Lent]

Yep--You have to realize what 'team' the MSM is playing for.

You know what story is getting airplay? Even one of the lead stories after the economy: Obama campaign accuses McCain of sleazy, virulent campaign adds using Rove to support their contention. Surprised there is not a whimper of a response from the McCain campaign - just Obama's whimpering.

The only chance this story has is Hannity. Just like he hammered with Wright, Ayers, etc.

[Gondring]

Appears nobody in washington has the nads to enforce the logan act anymore.

Anymore?!? Name one ever. (Hint: there never was one, ever, according to the 2006 CRS report.)

[igoramus08]

Bulwinkle found the msnbc article.

[tomkat]

Surprised there is not a whimper of a response from the McCain campaign - just Obama's whimpering

I beg to differ:

McCain Responds to Obama's Reported Undermining of the Commander-In-Chief During Wartime

[XEHRpa]

Back in June, the Obama campaign released a real damning version of things to reporters, including the following:

He said he told Zebari that negotiations for a Status of Forces agreement or strategic framework agreement between the two countries should be done in the open and with Congress’s authorization and that it was important that that there be strong bipartisan support for any agreement so that it can be sustained through a future administration. He argued it would make sense to hold off on such negotiations until the next administration.

“My concern is that the Bush administration—in a weakened state politically—ends up trying to rush an agreement that in some ways might be binding to the next administration, whether it was my administration or Sen. McCain’s administration,” Obama said. “The foreign minister agreed that the next administration should not be bound by an agreement that’s currently made.”

For details, see http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2083101/posts

[supercat]

The Republicans have historically been more assiduous in covering up Democrat scandals than the Democrats have.

Without the thread of radical leftists, RINOs would have no reason to exist.

[penelopesire]

Interesting. You are posting the same ‘Obama talking point’ via MSNBC that the whole left seems to be latching onto in the sinking Obama ship.

WHY?

I really don’t see how this MSNBC article contradicts the FACT that ‘President Obama’ is NOT PRESIDENT’ yet...and there-fore has no business ‘negotiating’ a United States treaty or any other instrument of US FOREIGN POLICY.

?????

[XEHRpa]

Huh? In my mind, the MSNBC piece corroborates everything the NY Post article says. Do you think otherwise?

[XEHRpa]

...and I would add that the Post source is an Iraqi minister while the MSNBC source is the Obama campaign in June. Both say the same thing, essentially!

[BOBTHENAILER]

Rush is good, but words cannot do justice for what this punk is owed for playing with the troops like that.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

" Yea, I guess the dimwits would be so low in the dumps, anything would help. "

As Mr. T would say " I pity the fools " ........................ NOT !!!

[penelopesire]

OK...seeing your angle..it is valid and definately ‘newsworthy’.

I think we are in diagonal views about what is the ‘essence’ of this story however.

To my gun toting, clinging to my bible and religion angle....the man is seditious. Not just stupid:..marxist clinging....Alinsky toting...communist!

The media left and the Obama campaign want to focus America on this quote...after all..it ‘SOUNDS’ reasonable....to the untrained ear.

That’s what ‘community organizing ‘via Saul Alinsky’ is all about!

They intend to do a ‘bait and switch’ on this news. Don’t fall for it.

Obama has 300 foreign policy advisors and leakers for a purpose and it isn’t ‘divergent views’..it is for plausible deniability’.

[TET1968]

Rudolf Hessosoma. If only we had a Spandau.