You have an excellent point about Reed and Hagel!! They should be asked about this ASAP.
From the Fox report:
“A top foreign policy adviser to Obama sat in on the meetings between the candidate and Iraqi officials this summer and said no such conversations occurred, the campaign said Monday.
Obama has said he wants U.S. troops out of Iraq as rapidly as possible, and while the U.S. negotiates a Status of Forces Agreement with Iraq, Obama wants that brought to Congress.
According to the report in the Post, Obama said he wants the Bush administration excluded from the negotiations, given its “state of weakness and political confusion.”
First of all..notice how this ‘top foreign policy advisor to the Obama campaign’ is not named..... Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari is NAMED!! ????? Obama has 300 some odd FP advisors...LOL
Second...notice how Obama thinks it is perfectly OK to BYPASS a sitting President of the USA to ‘negotiate’ on behalf of his own administration that he hasn’t even won...LOL!
MESSAGE TO the 300 Obama Foreign Policy Advisors: These agreements have to be made now with the current PRESIDENT OF THE USA!! GUESS WHAT? That President is G.W. Bush!!..LOL
BUGGER OFF!!...LOL!!
Arrogant statement to say the least.
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