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Obama And The Iraqi Foreign Minister, Part II
Ace of Spades HQ — ... claiming that on his visit to Iraq Obama urged the Iraqi government to delay negotiations with the US until a new administration took office. It looks like the skepticism was the right choice after all. Lending significant credence to Obama's response is the fact that -- though it's absent from the Post story and other retellings -- in addition to Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, this July meeting was also attended by Bush administration officials such as U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker and the Baghdad embassy's Legislative Affairs advisor Rich Haughton, ...

Taheri
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NY Post Story On Obama “Undermining” US In Iraq Totally Wrong, McCain Falls For It
Oliver Willis — The NY Post made stuff up and John McCain regurgitated it? SHOCKING. The charge — that Obama asked the Iraqis to delay signing off on a ‘Status of Forces Agreement,’ thus delaying US troop withdrawal and interfering in U.S. foreign policy — has been picked up on the internet, talk radio and by Republicans including the McCain campaign, which seized on the story as possible evidence of duplicity. The Obama campaign said that the Post report consisted of ‘outright distortions.’ Lending significant ...

ABC: Bush officials support Obama’s account that he didn’t try to undermine negotiations with Iraq
Hot Air » Top Picks — ABC: Bush officials support Obama’s account that he didn’t try to undermine negotiations with Iraq posted at 4:14 pm on September 19, 2008 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | printer-friendly Good work by Tapper to try to get to the bottom of this. Ed’s been covering this beat , not me, so I’m behind the curve on the specifics, but read the excerpt and let’s see if we can untangle this. Lending significant credence to Obama’s response [to the charges that he tried to interfere with negotiations] is the fact that — though it’s absent from ...

Remainders: Owning up
Ben Smith's Blog — ... Noonan thinks this election might not actually matter that much. A Palin aide says, "on background", that Palin is awesome. On background, I think Politico is the world's best website. Sarah Palin, The One. Obama beats McCain by a field goal in the "who would you like to watch football with" contest. A McCain Spanish language ad comes down hard on Obama for wanting to meet with Chavez. Tapper finds witnesses who contradict a claim about Obama's meeting with Iraqi officials. ...

Amir Taheri Serial Fabulist
Newshoggers.com — ... By Cernig Taheri has been exposed as am unprincipled hack. Again. But this time, by the Bush administration. You'd think if a responsible journalist was going to attack Obama for saying stuff at a meeting that supposedly secretly undermined the Bush administration, the fact that the meeting was also attended by Bush administration officials such as U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker and the Baghdad embassy’s Legislative Affairs advisor Rich Haughton, as well as a Republican senator, Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, might have killed such a ...

Friday's Mini-Report
Political Animal — ... defending McCain's record on alternative energy. * The right, worked into a frenzy by a New York Post article, believes Obama privately urged Iraqi leaders to delay a security agreement with the Bush administration. Republicans in the room with Obama in Iraq have come forward to say the report and the attacks are completely wrong . * By a narrow margin, Americans would rather ...

A Couple More Lies To Kick Off Your Weekend
Comments from Left Field — ... …by Republicans.  You simply gotta love Jake Tapper’s tone here; you can almost feel him getting more and more upset at the duplicity of the McCain campaign: ...

Remainders: Derivative blame game
Jonathan Martin's Blog — Rush goes to the op-ed page. Lowry points fingers at everyone. The Washington Post fact-checker says don't listen to the Washington Post on Raines. Pawlenty doesn't show at McCain's return to Minnesota. Financial industry lobbyists bore in on the candidates. Rothenberg: Colorado, Colorado, Colorado. Hagel and other U.S. officials undermine Amir Taheri's claim about Obama and Iraq. USA Today focuses on the campaign's economic advisors, which means a lot of talking to Douglas ...

Confirmed: Barack Obama did not interfere with US foreign policy while in Iraq
Sister Toldjah — ... , I read a report by Jake Tapper which discusses how Bush administration officials - and other Republican congressmen - are saying that Barack Obama did not try to interfere with Bush’s policy towards Iraq in a meeting with Iraq leaders as ...

Amir Moment: Just Long Enough for a Joke
Obsidian Wings — ... How shoddy you ask?  Well, it was based on one source, the source's statements do not actually corroborate the charges leveled against Obama by Taheri, the chronology and geography that Taheri associates with Obama's alleged statements defy the space-time continuum and, oh yeah, members from both parties that were in attendance at the meeting in question, as well as the Bush administration, back Obama and contradict Taheri: ...

Carol Platt Liebau: A Question for Tonight's Debate: Did You Try to Undermine America's Foreign Policy?
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — ... for his own political advantage, by seeking to persuade the Iraqi government to delay negotiating the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. The Obama campaign -- via ABC's Jake Tapper -- noted that Bush administration officials and others said he had done no such thing in the meeting they all attended. But was Tapper had? As Ms. Phillips notes, ...

With Donors, Palin Keeps Up Attacks on Obama
The Caucus — ... “He tried to influence negotiations with Iraqi leaders in a way that would set back America’s cause there while advancing his campaign here,” she said. At both events, she described the allegations as “stunning.” The Obama campaign, which faced these allegations in mid-September, reiterated its denials today. It called them categorically untrue, citing spokesmen for other senators who attended, including Chuck Hagel, Republican of Nebraska and Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island told ABC News at the time that Mr. Obama informed the Iraqis at the beginning of the meeting that ...

Reading Incomprehension
JustOneMinute — ... was briefed by him immediately afterward. Not too mysterious, is it? June, a phone call, Zebari in Washington - clear enough? Yet in addition to the error already emphasized above, the Times continued with this: The Obama campaign, which faced these allegations in mid-September, reiterated its denials today. It called them categorically untrue, citing spokesmen for other senators who attended, including Chuck Hagel, Republican of Nebraska, and Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island, who agree that Mr. Obama informed the Iraqis at the beginning of the meeting that the United ...

Zebari feels misrepresented by those misrepresenting him
Abu Aardvark — ... evidence for his assertions was an interview with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari in al-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper which clearly did not even refer to the Baghdad meetings but to his June conversation with Obama in DC.  In a follow-up piece, Taheri quoted the entire passage in question... except for the phrase which clearly showed that he had misrepresented the interview.  When several Republican participants in Obama's Baghdad meetings told Jake Tapper of ABC News that nothing of the sort had happened, the story seemed dead.  ...

Zebari swings at the zombie story trying to eat your brain
Abu Aardvark — ... assertions was an interview with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari in al-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper which clearly did not even refer to the Baghdad meetings but to his June conversation with Obama in Washington DC.   In a follow-up piece, Taheri quoted the entire passage in question... except for the phrase which clearly showed that he had misrepresented the interview.  When several Republican participants in Obama's Baghdad meetings told Jake Tapper of ABC News that nothing of the sort had happened, the story seemed dead.  ...