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.”
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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.
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Yes, so while the Taheri article alleges follow-on “private” discussions in Baghdad, Obama had already openly announced his own policy of advocating basically a freeze on negotiations between the USA and Iraq until after Jan. 20, 2009. This would have the convenient (for the Obamessiah) effect of halting progress for the remainder of the year. No pesky annoyance of having any troop withdrawals announced before Nov. 4, no bother about having a successful negotiation completed for Status of Forces, etc. And although an Obama campaign statement today tries to make a big distinction between Status of Forces and a more “strategic” agreement overall, one of Obama’s own June statements conflates the two and says there should be no agreement(s) negotiated in the remainder of the Bush term.
Obambi thinks he can direct the elected POTUS and the elected Iraqi govt. to refuse to negotiate with each other b/c HE does not find it convenient to his electoral prospects!!
Barack Hussein Obama CANNOT re-negotiate or interfere with a STANDING AGREEMENT which is what he did in Iraq. He didn’t have the authority!!!!!!!!! IMO, the President won’t touch this at all. Dubya doesn’t look well lately. He looks like he’s low on iron or something. Congress won’t touch it. I guess the alternate media and us will have to handle this before the election.