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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?

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To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (46853)9/15/2008 9:39:02 PM
From: Proud_Infidel  Read Replies (2) of 224648
 
OBAMA TRIED TO STALL GIS' IRAQ WITHDRAWAL
New York Post ^ | 09/15/08 | AMIR TAHERI

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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 insisted that Congress should be involved in negotiations on the status of US troops - and that it was in the interests of both sides not to have an agreement negotiated by the Bush administration in its "state of weakness and political confusion."

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