OBAMA TRIED TO STALL GIS' IRAQ WITHDRAWAL

Last updated: 4:10 am
September 15, 2008
Posted: 4:02 am
September 15, 2008

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."

"However, as an Iraqi, I prefer to have a security agreement that regulates the activities of foreign troops, rather than keeping the matter open." Zebari says.

Though Obama claims the US presence is "illegal," he suddenly remembered that Americans troops were in Iraq within the legal framework of a UN mandate. His advice was that, rather than reach an accord with the "weakened Bush administration," Iraq should seek an extension of the UN mandate.

While in Iraq, Obama also tried to persuade the US commanders, including Gen. David Petraeus, to suggest a "realistic withdrawal date." They declined.

Obama has made many contradictory statements with regard to Iraq. His latest position is that US combat troops should be out by 2010. Yet his effort to delay an agreement would make that withdrawal deadline impossible to meet.

Supposing he wins, Obama's administration wouldn't be fully operational before February - and naming a new ambassador to Baghdad and forming a new negotiation team might take longer still.

By then, Iraq will be in the throes of its own campaign season. Judging by the past two elections, forming a new coalition government may then take three months. So the Iraqi negotiating team might not be in place until next June.

Then, judging by how long the current talks have taken, restarting the process from scratch would leave the two sides needing at least six months to come up with a draft accord. That puts us at May 2010 for when the draft might be submitted to the Iraqi parliament - which might well need another six months to pass it into law.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/09152008...wal_129150.htm

Obama is playing politics with the lives of our troops to enhance his election chances.

This one is over, folks.....

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Even if this isn't true, the election is over. The only way Barack gets back into this is if McCain dies or Hillary is put on their ticket.

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Liberals believe it is okay to kill babies, but not terrorists.

democrats believe it is okay to taser a 10 year old if this stance will get their guy elected.

Whatever helps you sleep at night.....

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Nice to see you have intelligent thought to add to the discussion. Obama is so, yesterday. His inability and inexperience is now being shown and he has nothing to combat it. We here in Illinois are still waiting for Barack to be qualified to be a Senator or actually try to do something a Senator would do.

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Liberals believe it is okay to kill babies, but not terrorists.

democrats believe it is okay to taser a 10 year old if this stance will get their guy elected.

The opinion piece refers to the agreement being discussed and does not address troop withdrawals at all.

This would be like implying that the registation requirements for a car have an effect on how fast it will go.

Are people really so stupid as to read something and then completely misunderstand what they just read?

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Soldiers swear to protect and defend the Constitution with their lives.

Politicians swear to protect and defend the Constitution with someone else's life.

Based on your post I would guess the answer to be yes.

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Liberals believe it is okay to kill babies, but not terrorists.

democrats believe it is okay to taser a 10 year old if this stance will get their guy elected.

Yes, there are those that are... sorry to say.

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“Share everything with your brother. Do not say, ‘It is private property.’ If you share what is everlasting, you should be that much more willing to share things which do not last.”
~ The Didache

"Not to enable the poor to share in our goods is to steal from them and deprive them of life. The goods we possess are not ours, but theirs."
~St. John Chrysostom

Hillary will only take the top of the ticket, she isn't going to help him by being her VP when she knows he is going to lose. It just isn't going to happen.

The New York Times references the trip before he went there to sell out our troops.


http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2...d-afghanistan/

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Also referenced here in June:

His campaign is done. Stick a fork in him.

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