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."

[CASchack]

Nancy Pelosi told him it was okay. After all, she tried something similar.

[Lent]

Be sure to get it to Drudge as well, where the MSM can’t ignore it.

It's on Drudge.

[mplsconservative]

This story is viral. One of the local MSP talkies, KTLK-FM is breaking it now and linking it.

Call the elderly folks you know that are without computers. I just did. This might have “big” legs. (Fingers crossed)

[snarkytart]

The media should report it, and make a big deal about it, because you know if McCain was accused of something like this they’d be all over it.

[nutmeg]

This is potentially huge...

[Prophet in the wilderness]

" Obama’s flipflopped so often and still maintained a certain level of support that I can only assume his followers are what so many here have said they are—religious fanatics who believe in the MAN over any of his actions or beliefs. Their motto seems to be a reversal of a Marx Brothers routine— Whatever he’s for, I’m for it. "

This reminds us of another man... in which, this year is the 30 th anniversary of the Jones Town massacre.
This is 2008 .... Jonestown ( It became internationally notorious in November 1978 ) ..... is it just coincidence ?

[Berlin_Freeper]

[Miss Didi]

Why is this in the NY Post?

The Post and the Sun are the conservative papers in NYC. Amir Taheri is a regular Post columnist.

Is anyone else still having problems posting?

[Grampa Dave]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2082723/posts

Bush’s Lonely Decision
WSJ ^ | September 15, 2008

Posted on Monday, September 15, 2008 8:21:32 AM by nuconvert

Bush’s Lonely Decision

September 15, 2008

Now that even Barack Obama has acknowledged that President Bush’s surge in Iraq has “succeeded beyond our wildest dreams,” maybe it’s time the Democratic nominee gives some thought to how that success actually came about — not just in Ramadi and Baghdad, but in the bureaucratic Beltway infighting out of which the decision to surge emerged.

excerpt

Consider what confronted Mr. Bush in 2006. Following a February attack on a Shiite shrine in the city of Samarra, Iraq’s sectarian violence began a steep upward spiral.

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The “Sunni Awakening” of tribal sheiks against al Qaeda was nowhere in sight. An attempt at a minisurge of U.S. and Iraqi forces in Baghdad failed dismally. George Casey, the American commander in Iraq, believed the only way the U.S. could “win” was to “draw down” — a view shared up the chain of command, including Centcom Commander John Abizaid and then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

Politically, the war had become deeply unpopular in an election year that would wipe out Republican majorities in Congress. The bipartisan Iraq Study Group, run by James Baker and Lee Hamilton, was gearing up to offer the President the option of a politically graceful defeat, dressed up as a regional “diplomatic offensive.”

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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.

[shield]

Idiot...traitors of America and our troops.

[Fido969]

“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,” Mr. Obama said, “whether it's my administration or Senator McCain's administration.”

If true, that was an issue he should have dealt with using the US polital system - NOT by pressuring the Iraq government to reject Bush's proposals.

[nutmeg]

Passing the bucket to my fellow FReepers.. let's sit back and see how Obama responds to this one..

Let's hope this Obama-Iraq story has legs, but I won't hold my breath. Not much is happening on the "McCain can't use a keyboard" story, that I believe "broke" on Friday afternoon:

Wondering No More - (McCain) can't use a keyboard because of torture in Nam

Karl Rove mentioned this briefly on Fox News Sunday, but Obama seems to be Teflon, and is getting away with it...

[Grampa Dave]

Superb my friend, and it is stolen, er, borrowed until Sarah and John are sworn in next January.

[woweeitsme]

The problem is that liberals do not have any morals and they aren’t accountable. Obama’s going behind the back of the President isn’t really HIS fault.

The reason it would be a story if McCain did this is because, historically, conservatives and Republicans have shown some adherence and rhetoric to promote themselves as actually having morals.

Its impossible for liberals to do anything wrong because of this. See...it’s not too hard to see why this won’t be covered by the MSM. Time to move on...nothing to see here...

[nutmeg]

Is anyone else still having problems posting?

Yes, and it's driving me insane! :-(

FR seems to have been slow / having problems since the democRATic convention... I'm outta here.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

" Congress should be involved in negotiations on the status of US troops "

" Nope. No constitutional provision for that, Sen. Obama."

Obama : " what US Constitution ? this is for the citizens of the world.

[Lent]

And Catholics are likely to be very offended by this "Jesus was a community organizer" slogan.

Every Christian should be offended by this cynical and false analogy.

[piasa]

I know there were accusations that Reagan tried to influence the election by getting the Iranians to hold on to the hostages (as if the Iranians weren’t intent on humiliating Carter), and even claims that George H. W. Bush had flown to Paris for a secret meeting for this purpose, but I don’t recall if any of these claims were made before the election in November 1980.

No, the claims were made after January 20, 1981... up to that point the left had no reason to believe the hostages would be released at all. The claims were ginned up to be used in a later election.

[Berlin_Freeper]

LoL! Thank you.

Was that your Over.? I could not recall exactly who I saw it from but it sure is a good one and fit the picture so well.

Have a nice day!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!