Tuesday, 16 September 2008

September 15, 2008

BREAKING NEWS:

 Obama Allegedly Undermined U.S. Foreign Policy in Iraq

Stick a fork in Obama: he’s done

by Bill Levinson

 

The following is in today’s New York Post,. The bottom line is that Barack Obama allegedly attempted to undermine official U.S. policy in Iraq, an action that could have endangered thousands of lives as well as regional peace and security, for his own political benefit. We encourage our readers to circulate this story as widely as possible, because it alone should mean the end of Obama’s candidacy.

 

OBAMA TRIED TO STALL GIS’ IRAQ WITHDRAWAL by Amir Taheri

 

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.

 

According to Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Obama made his demand for delay a key theme of his discussions with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad in July.

 

“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 has given Iraqis the impression that he doesn’t want Iraq to appear anything like a success, let alone a victory, for America. The reason? He fears that the perception of US victory there might revive the Bush Doctrine of “pre-emptive” war - that is, removing a threat before it strikes at America.

 

We must now ask whether Obama is merely wishing for our country’s foreign policy to fail in Iraq, or whether he is working actively to cause it to fail. We are not attorneys and cannot give legal advice but, were the latter to be proven, we refer our readers to the following element of U.S. Code Title 18.

 

U.S. Code Title 18

 

§ 953. Private correspondence with foreign governments

 

Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

 

This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to apply, himself or his agent, to any foreign government or the agents thereof for redress of any injury which he may have sustained from such government or any of its agents or subjects.

 

Update: More reports on this breaking story

Fox News: “Obama Tried to Delay Withdrawal Agreement of U.S. Troops”