Did Obama just confirm Taheri?

According to HotAir.com, Glenn Reynolds takes a close look at Barack Obama’s response to Amir Taheri and doesn’t see any daylight between them. Yesterday, Taheri accused Obama of attempting to derail a status-of-forces agreement between the US and Iraq by telling the Iraqis to wait until after the American elections and stop negotiating with the Bush administration. Obama responded by essentially confirming Taheri’s account:

In the New York Post, conservative Iranian-born columnist Amir Taheri quoted Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari as saying the Democrat made the demand when he visited Baghdad in July, while publicly demanding an early withdrawal.

“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, according to Taheri.

“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 reportedly said. …

Obama’s national security spokeswoman Wendy Morigi said Taheri’s article bore “as much resemblance to the truth as a McCain campaign commercial.”

In fact, Obama had told the Iraqis that they should not rush through a “Strategic Framework Agreement” governing the future of US forces until after President George W. Bush leaves office, she said.

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.

That’s not leadership America needs from a Senator, let alone a President. The Senate should investigate this as a gross violation of the Constitution and the separation of powers between the branches of government.

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10 Responses to “Did Obama just confirm Taheri?”

foxladynews on September 16th, 2008 11:43 am

Keep exposing the DNC, interference in American Military, the Presidency, and their traitor activity. Americans are listening and they are imploding. Remember, Immigration is to keep the democratic ticket alive, all who become successful change party.
Immigration must be revised, like Italy, Denmark and many other countries. It is our Survival, to stop the OPEN IMMIGRATION before the masses of ignorance, control our governing body.
foxladynews on September 16th, 2008 11:46 am

The name of the candidate, Barrack Hussein Obama is reason enough to vote for McCain & Palin. Check out Percy Sutton and the
Dr. Khalid al-Mansour of Texas wtih close ties to Prince Abdullah of Saudi Araabia. Mansour raised funds for Obama’s education and told Sutton, the Prince wants Saudi Arabia to have more influence in United States. This MUST END before we have all the Wahhabis within our Republic.
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rich on September 16th, 2008 1:17 pm

hussein obama should be in jail not the democratic presidential nominee!!!!he will loose badly in november as he should,i am ashamed to be a registered democrat,every election cycle the person the democrats put up is worst than the last.56 years i will never vote democrat again.he is not qualified to be a senator,let alone the president.i am taking back alot of things i said about president bush,because the more i really study it the more right he is and was and will be!!!i cannott believe i just typed that but it is fact!!!!hussein obama should take himself out of the race he will humiliate america
Van on September 16th, 2008 2:09 pm

Typical of Obama because he says one thing and does another. Any loon that votes for this moron is in for a big problem in the future.
glen on September 16th, 2008 6:34 pm

What B.hussin did is treason and should go to jail now.
richard on September 17th, 2008 1:13 am

@glen try again, u and I know Obama would win so look for a better excuse 2 prevent him from gettin there.

And when has expressing a personal opinion bcome a treasonable offence when the decision would have to be bourne by another Government its only logical to relax to wait till the new administration comes in.

The greatest error we Republicans made was choosin mccain any other person would have gotten the job done Mccain sorry no
mark on September 17th, 2008 6:55 am

Um, where’s Charlie Gibson and his doubting leer? Where’s Brokaw? Where’s Couric? Where’s Brian Williams.
Donna on September 17th, 2008 12:53 pm

I want to see this on every cable news!! That would be CNN, MSNBC, or as Mark Levin calls it ( MSLSD)!! etc. Think that will happen???? Highly doubtful
liasion4 on September 18th, 2008 3:52 pm

Obama is ruining it for everyone. Everything he has accused others of. He is doing himself. Please I hope he is investigated. This is Criminal.

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