This meant a number of things. First, the delay would keep US troops in Iraq until after the 2010 deadline for withdrawal proposed by Obama himself – thus showing, said Taheri, that this deadline was a meaningless sop to his anti-war base. Second, and rather more important, Obama was playing a cynical and possibly treacherous political game over Iraq. He almost certainly wanted to delay such an agreement...
Playing politics with Iraq
12:20am
Yet more disturbing evidence of Barack Obama’s patent unsuitability for high office has dropped like a stone having briefly surfaced in the mainstream media. Last Monday, Amir Taheri reported in the New York Post that, while campaigning in public for a speedy withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, Obama tried in private to persuade Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement on a draw-down of the American military presence.
Monday, 22 September 2008
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