I usually don’t talk politics on this blog because this is a business blog, but Obama did something that for me is unexcuseable. The main stream media is not talking about it because if people on the left knew about this there would be outrage from manyand they want Obama to win. But the media in the middle east is talking about it . I also found it in the NY Post and I first heard about it on Fox News.
I think that every American should hear about this. It is on the verge of treason. Basically here is the gist of the story. Obama went to Iraq on his tour there. During a meeting with the Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari he basically presented himself as sure to be the next president. He then went further to tell the Iraqi leader to NOT make a deal with the Bush adminisration and to wait until the election is over. The reason he did this is clear, the Iraq war is almost over and if it ended or if there was a major event that was the sign of the end many people would not Vote for Obama. Getting us out of the war is one of his main positions and if the war was over they may not support him.
I think that this may be the first time in US history that a presidential candidate under minded the state departments policies by going to a foreign nation and counterdicting the current government.
If you read about it anywhere, you will find that the source of the story is the Iraqi Minister himself. This delay would add at least 6 months to the war. At the current rate that would cost us about 70 billion dollars and about 70 American lives, all this for one man to be elected. What ego.
Please click on the links to the news story above, or do a search for “delay iraq obama” and make up you own mind.
i thank you for yet another reason to stop this snake in the grass..
From http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/undermining-mcc.html
Undermining McCain Campaign Attack, Republicans Back Obama‘s Version of Meeting With Iraqi Leaders
September 19, 2008 1:06 PM
Earlier this week, the campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., seized upon a column in the New York Post that described Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., as having urged Iraqi leaders in a private meeting to delay coming to an agreement with the Bush administration on the status of U.S. troops.
“Obama has tried in private to persuade Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement on a drawdown of the American military presence,” Post columnist Amir Taheri wrote, quoting Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, who told the Post that Obama, during his meeting with Iraqi leaders in July, “asked why we were not prepared to delay an agreement until after the U.S. elections and the formation of a new administration in Washington.”
The charge — that Obama asked the Iraqis to delay signing off on a “Status of Forces Agreement,” thus delaying U.S. troop withdrawal and interfering in U.S. foreign policy — has been picked up on the Internet, talk radio and by Republicans, including the McCain campaign, which seized on the story as possible evidence of duplicity.
The Obama campaign said that the Post report consisted of “outright distortions.”
Lending significant credence to Obama’s response is the fact that — though it’s absent from the Post story and other retellings — in addition to Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, this July meeting was also attended by Bush administration officials, such as U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker and the Baghdad embassy’s legislative affairs advisor Rich Haughton, as well as a Republican senator, Chuck Hagel of Nebraska.
Attendees of the meeting back Obama’s account, including not just Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., but Hagel, and Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffers from both parties. Officials of the Bush administration who were briefed on the meeting by the U.S. embassy in Baghdad also support Obama’s account and dispute the Post story and McCain attack.
The Post story is “absolutely not true,” Hagel spokesman Mike Buttry told ABC News.
“Barack Obama has never urged a delay in negotiations,” said Obama campaign national security spokesperson Wendy Morigi, “nor has he urged a delay in immediately beginning a responsible drawdown of our combat brigades.”
Buttry said that Hagel agrees with Obama’s account of the meeting: Obama began the meeting with al-Maliki by asserting that the United States speaks with one foreign policy voice, and that voice belongs to the Bush administration.
A Bush administration official with knowledge of the meeting says that, during the meeting, Obama stressed to al-Maliki that he would not interfere with President Bush’s negotiations concerning the U.S. troop presence in Iraq, and that he supports the Bush administration’s position on the need to negotiate, as soon as possible, the Status of Forces Agreement, which deals with, among other matters, U.S. troops having immunity from local prosecution.
Obama did assert at the meeting with the Iraqis that he agrees with those -– including Hagel and Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — who advocate congressional review of the Strategic Framework Agreement being worked out between the Bush administration and the Iraqi government, including the Iraqi parliament.