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Taheri insists that Obama wanted a delay on troops’ return

Following up on the most serious allegation of the presidential campaign to date< Amir Taheri insists that OBAMA OBJECTS
BUT THE EVIDENCE SAYS I’M RIGHT

In other words, Obama wanted a delay on the Status of Forces Agreement, not on the Strategic Framework Agreement – as his rebuttal now claims.

The NBC report continues: “Asked by NBC’s Lee Cowan if a timetable for the Status of Forces Agreement was discussed, Obama said, ‘Well he, the foreign minister, had presented a letter requesting an extension of the UN resolution until the end of this year. So that’ s a six-month extension.’”

That Obama was aware that the two accords couldn’ t be separated is clear in his words to NBC

Just One Minute goes back and looks at the July 3 reports, while Ed looks at the Obama response, and Taheri’s right:

Which is exactly what Taheri wrote. Barack Obama went to Iraq and interfered with the diplomatic efforts of the elected United States government, in a war zone no less, by telling the Iraqis to stop negotiating with the President. How exactly does that make Taheri’s column untruthful?

It wasn’t enough for Obama to fail at forcing the nation into a defeat in Iraq when he opposed the surge. Now he has interfered with our efforts to stabilize Iraq and provide for its security after the surge succeeded in keeping Iraq from falling into a failed state. And when he got caught working for failure and defeat, he tried making it into a smear against John McCain.

But the more important and outrageous issue at hand is that he tried to undercut negotiations between a sitting US president and a foreign government.

Rest assured, the media is so in the tank with Obama, they won’t even notice.

More, lots more at The Anchoress.

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2 Responses to “Taheri insists that Obama wanted a delay on troops’ return”

  1. Helen Says:
    September 17th, 2008 at 11:53 am

    Well, you know, Fausta, even on this side of the Pond I can see that this is not nearly as important as Governor Palin’s tanning bed. Just in case somebody takes that seriously.

  2. Obama has a “troop-gate” - UPDATED | The Anchoress Says:
    September 17th, 2008 at 12:24 pm

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