(Candidate) Obama tried to sway Iraqis on Bush deal

Washington Times ^ | 10/10/2008 | Barbara Slavin

[DesertRhino]

EXCLUSIVE: At the same time the Bush administration was negotiating a still elusive agreement to keep the U.S. military in Iraq, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama tried to convince Iraqi leaders in private conversations that the president shouldn’t be allowed to enact the deal without congressional approval.

[DesertRhino]

I keep hearing that Flynn was sent by the President-elect to begin opening contact with foreign governments. If this is criminal, why was it ok for CANDIDATE Obama to undermine status of forces agreements with Iraq a month before his election? Here is actual collusion right out in the daylight for all to see. And Obama's collusion resulted in ISIS and hundreds of thousands dead in the resulting wars.

[Mr. K]

this bastige needs to be investigated.........

[mrsmith]

It’s normal and usual for campaigns to communicate with foreign governments.
Nothing illegal or untoward here.

I guess that’s why he’s not being charged about it but with lying.

[ColdOne]

Candidate obama also went to some country to help with their elections...that was another major crime he committed.

[bgill]

Big difference. Trump is white while the Kenyan was a black who cleaned up well.

[DesertRhino]

He didn’t lie. He told them he could not discuss it and that would be a topic for a later date. That’s not discussing it. And while Trump’s activities were legal, Obama’s were not.
It is illegal for a Senator to negotiate with a foreign government without the blessing of the presidency.

It has become widely ignored in the McCain era, but it is indeed illegal, sport.

[DesertRhino]

And a revolutionary socialist democrat.

[hanamizu]

That’s easy. Obama was a “light worker”, soon-to-be Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, constitutional scholar—in short the most qualified (and smartest) man to ever hold the office. Trump is a war-mongering, nationalistic, homophobic, Islamophobic, misogynistic, knuckle-dragging cretin whom everyone close to him acknowledges is obviously suffering from dementia.

[Liz]

I never thought Boobamba could be more despicable now than he was in office.......but I was wrong.

He’s in our faces constantly.

American demand a law——”Leave Office, Go Home and Shut Up Act” ...... for ex pesidents like Boobamba....and Clinton

These scumbags are exploiting the presidency to get rich quick.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Obama tried to convince Iraqi leaders in private conversations that the president shouldn’t be allowed to enact the deal without congressional approval...he settled instead for insisting that every member of the Iraqi ruling council vote in favor of allowing the troops to remain - when the Iraqis came through on his expectation that the vote would never be unanimous, he had the perfect rationalization for pulling the troops out......