Obama and His Nutroots Gangs ARE Traitors in Our Midst
By Matthew Weaver on September 18, 2008 at 6:13 AM in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Iraq, John McCain
On Monday the New York Post published a shocking report accusing Barack Obama of interfering in U.S. foreign policy and ongoing military operations in Iraq by directly calling upon the Iraqs to delay any agreement with the United States to aid his political campaign. In public Obama has campaigned under the banner of opposing the war in Iraq while in private he has actively sought to undermine the United States and extend it. Americans are being unnecessarily killed and wounded by his actions.
The media has ignored this—the American blood on Obama’s hands, his sabotage of United States foreign policy and military operations, his duplicity and lies, and the likely criminal violation of the Logan Act. Senators Jack Reed and Chuck Hagel, who accompanied Obama to Iraq and likely participated in his dicussions with Iraq’s leaders, have also been silent.
Senator John McCain has rightly called for an explanation:
At this point, it is not yet clear what official American negotiations Senator Obama tried to undermine with Iraqi leaders, but the possibility of such actions is unprecedented. It should be concerning to all that he reportedly urged that the democratically-elected Iraqi government listen to him rather than the US administration in power. If news reports are accurate, this is an egregious act of political interference by a presidential candidate seeking political advantage overseas. Senator Obama needs to reveal what he said to Iraq’s Foreign Minister during their closed door meeting. The charge that he sought to delay the withdrawal of Americans from Iraq raises serious questions about Senator Obama’s judgment and it demands an explanation.
Obama has been virtually silent—likely hoping his traitorous and deadly actions would pass unnoticed.
Only two dismissive comments from the Obama campaign, both on Monday, are reported in the media:
- Obama’s campaign staff traveling with Obama claimed—as either a lie or simply uninformed—that “no such conversation took place”, per Major Garrett for Fox news at 3:23 ET, Monday.
- At about the same time, Ben Smith reported at Politico:
An Obama aide accused Taheri of confusing the Status of Forces agreement with a Strategic Framework Agreement, for which Obama has pushed for congressional review.
Wednesday, Taheri wrote a follow-up in the New York Post (H/T Michele Petys) that not only calls Obama a liar, but accuses him of “trying to derail current US policy”.
- Even by Obama’s own account back in June, in an interview with NBC, he stated that conversations took place. Further, now saying they were misunderstood reconfirms that they took place. Thus, for the Obama campaign to say that they didn’t take place is a clear lie.
- The claim that Taheri is confused is also undermined by Obama’s interviews and the additional details provided by Taheri in New York Post today:
The Obama camp says I confused the two. It continues: “On the Status of Forces Agreement, Sen. Obama has always said he hoped that the US and Iraq would complete it – but if they did not, the option of extending the UN mandate should be considered.
“As to the Strategic Framework Agreement, Sen. Obama has consistently said that any security arrangements that outlast this administration should have the backing of the US Congress – especially given the fact that the Iraqi parliament will have the opportunity to vote on it.”
If there is any confusion, it’s in Obama’s position – for the two agreements are interlinked: You can’t have any US military presence under one agreement without having settled the other accord. (Thus, in US-Iraqi talks, the aim is a comprehensive agreement that covers both SOFA and SFA.)
And the claim that Obama only wanted the Strategic Framework Agreement delayed until a new administration takes office, and had no objection to a speedy conclusion of a Status of Forces Agreement, is simply untrue.
Here is how NBC reported Obama’s position on June 16, after his conversation in the US with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari: “Obama also told Zebari, he said, that Congress should be involved in any negotiations regarding a Status of Forces Agreement with Iraq. He suggested it may be better to wait until the next administration to negotiate such an agreement.”
In other words, Obama wanted a delay on the Status of Forces Agreement, not on the Strategic Framework Agreement – as his rebuttal now claims.
The NBC report continues: “Asked by NBC’s Lee Cowan if a timetable for the Status of Forces Agreement was discussed, Obama said, ‘Well he, the foreign minister, had presented a letter requesting an extension of the UN resolution until the end of this year. So that’ s a six-month extension.’”
That Obama was aware that the two accords couldn’ t be separated is clear in his words to NBC:
“Obviously, we can’t have US forces operating on the ground in Iraq without some sort of agreement, either a further extension of the UN resolution or some sort of Status of Forces agreement, some strategic framework agreement. As I said before, my concern is that the Bush administration — in a weakened state politically — ends up trying to rush an agreement that in some ways might be binding to the next administration, whether it was my administration or Sen. McCain’ s administration.”
Obama also told NBC: “The foreign minister agreed that the next administration should not be bound by an agreement that’s currently made…”
This is damning proof that, while in Iraq, Obama actively sought to undermine the United States for his own political gain. Worse than spying, Obama’s actions directly interfere with ongoing American military operations. As IronMan pointed out Monday at NoQuarterUSA, Abraham Lincoln in 1863 addressed traitors in Congress quite directly:
“Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged”
And Obama’s nutroots supporters have not limited themselves to dismissing everything as ‘horribly misrepresenting the facts’, ‘NY Post article – an unreliable source’, and ‘Reagan did it, why not Obama, too?’ Taheri reports that many have threatened him with death. In the latter, he pleads,
“I must also appeal to him to issue a “cease and desist” plea to the battalions of his sympathizers – who have been threatening me with death and worse in the days since my article appeared.”
Obama the traitor has the blood of a growing number of dead and wounded Americans on his hands as a result of his unprecedented actions. His supporters’ actions and the main stream media’s silence make them equally complicit in undermining the United States.
Again, Obama’s only defense to date is to split hairs over what he was asking the Iraqis to do. He does not deny urging them to delay agreements that would lead to early, even immediate removal of American soldiers from Iraq. And this for a U.S. military presence that Obama told Zebari was “illegal”.
How many Americans will needlessly die because of Obama’s traitorous effort to delay pull-out for his political gain?!
- July 21-31: 2 dead, 31 wounded (and not Returned to Duty (RTD))
- August: 23 dead, 121 wounded (and not RTD)
- September: 8 dead through the 14th, 32 wounded (and not RTD through the 9th)
The Hope and Change that Obama supporters find so endearing is actually traitorous actions to undermine the United States. This is a damning example of Obama’s patriotism. It is also incredibly two-faced as he publicly calls for an end to military operations in Iraq while negotiating with the Iraqi government to delay that end.
As I wrote Monday in NoQuarterUSA, How fitting, the Democrats put up a traitor against a certified American war hero.
Sources:
- Matthew Weaver, A Traitor In Our Midst [UPDATE: McCain Campaign Issues a Statement], NoQuarterUSA, September 15, 2008.
- Amir Taheri, Obama Tried to Stall GIs’ Iraq Withdrawal, New York Post, September 15, 2008.
- Amir Taheri, Obama Objects, But the Evidence Says I’m Right, New York Post, September 17, 2008.
- Athena Jones, Obama’s Talk with Iraqi Foreign Minister, MSNBC, June 16, 2008.
- Ben Smith, Obama Campaign Contests Taheri Column, Politico, September 15, 2008.
- Andy McCarthy, McCain Responds to Obama’s Reported Undermining of the Commander-In-Chief During Wartime, National Review Online, September 15, 2008.
- iCasualties, Iraq Coalition Casualty Count.
- Obama camp hits back at Iraq double-talk claim, AFP, September 16, 2008.
- NancyA, Obama’s Iraq Double Talk-Gate Response, NoQuarterUSA, September 17, 2008.
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