Friday, October 31, 2008

For Obama, anything to get elected

From Mohammed over at Iraq The Model we have Obama’s Meddling Undermines Future U.S.-Iraq Relationship regarding the status of forces agreement and attempts by Obama to undermine it for political gain.
  • While Iraqi and American negotiators and decision makers are doing what they can to finalize the agreement and reach a compromise on disputed issues, we find that everyone outside the negotiations is trying to put the stick in the wheel. But those are mostly parties that don’t want any good for Iraq and consider America a malicious intruder at best and a blood enemy at worst. What I find surprising is that someone from America is trying to obstruct the treaty. Believe it or not, there’s actually a guy who has no executive authority whatsoever — except in opinion polls — who is trying to bypass the actual top diplomats of the United States and undermine their negotiation efforts with a friendly state, at a time of war.I was hoping that presidential candidates would not put their electoral objectives above those of their nation. Alas, blinding greed and selfishness seem to prevail sometimes.

How low will he go to get himself elected? As low as it takes, apparently.