Obama’s Iraq skullduggery

I came acrossConfederate Yankee‘s latest post on Obama’s attempt at co-opting the new Iraqi government for his own political purposes. Bob Owens writes that the American Spectator wrote that the Obama campaign noodled on a response to Ahmir Teheri’s NY Post article for five hours because;

The report was true, there were at least three other people in the room with Obama and Zebari to confirm the conversation, and there was concern that there were enough aggressive reporters based in Baghdad with the sources to confirm the conversation that to deny the comments would create a bigger problem.

Dang! Busted. And no where to hide.

Bob Owens also points out from the NYP article that Obama tried to convince the military to take his position as to a time schedule for withdrawal;

Obama pressured U.S. commanders for a “realistic withdrawal date,” a date that would have been used as a transparent sop to his radical left-wing political base, and an attempt to unethically put those U.S. military commanders in a position of potentially influencing the course of the 2008 U.S. presidential elections. Commanders declined to be baited.

Ed Morrissey writes;

So far, the mainstream media seems more interested in Sarah Palin’s tanning bed than in a presidential candidate who tried to undermine US interests in a war zone for the sake of his own political career.

Category: Politics