Amir Taheri writes today that Barack Obama has deliberately requested that Iraqi leaders delay the return home of US forces. Taheri wastes no time in leveling his charges. His article in today’s New York Post begins thus.
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.
SO on the one hand, Barack Obama claims the very presence of American troops in Iraq is illegal. He has his attack hamster, Senator Joe Biden, discussing which members of the current presidential administration he wants investigated by the Department of Justice.
Meanwhile, according to Iraqi leaders interviewed by Taheri, Senator Obama has the following to say while the voters and the news cameras are not believed to be in the room.
"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.
Taheri points out that the next Iraqi election begins soon after the next US President takes the oath of office. He ponders whether an Obama Administration would be willing to offer the Iraqi government the same sort of grace period that he requests from Prime Minister al-Maliki. If an Obama administration did grant this stay, that would make Obama’s pledge of a complete US withdrawal by 2010 a logistical impossibility.
So leaves us with two possibilities. Option A involves a rookie candidate, with hordes of ivory tower advisers with no experience beyond academic research, being colossally unprepared and ill-informed. Hillary Clinton’s 3am add seems once more prescient.
Given the recent coverage the media has lavished on Governor Palin’s foreign policy credentials, we all know this couldn’t be the case. It would make our MSM hypocritical or something not to lavish the same amount of spilled ink on Senator Obama’s awkward and gangling policy adolescence.
This leaves us with the more honest and more consistent interpretation of Senator Obama’s latest attempts at usurping the prerogatives of an office he has not yet been elected to. The man thinks that the typical American citizen is an idiot. He believes he can tell us what is good for us to hear and then tell the real truth behind closed doors.
Like his NAFTA position during the Ohio Primary, Obama will lie like a carpet for short term political advantage. According to Canadian Television, Obama told Canada ahead of time not to worry about the things he was preparing to say about NAFTA.
CTV, Feb. 27: Within the last month, a top staff member for Obama's campaign telephoned Michael Wilson, Canada's ambassador to the United States, and warned him that Obama would speak out against NAFTA, according to Canadian sources.
The staff member reassured Wilson that the criticisms would only be campaign rhetoric, and should not be taken at face value.
One can only wonder what other reassurances he has offered to the various political leaders in Iraq, when he believed the microphone was not hot. After all, he certainly wasn’t atop the stump, in Scranton, PA, when he announced the small town America was filled with bitter people who clung to their guns and Bibles because they were unemployable for life.
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