Amir Taheri wrote: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."

"However, as an Iraqi, I prefer to have a security agreement that regulates the activities of foreign troops, rather than keeping the matter open." Zebari says.

Though Obama claims the US presence is "illegal," he suddenly remembered that Americans troops were in Iraq within the legal framework of a UN mandate. His advice was that, rather than reach an accord with the "weakened Bush administration," Iraq should seek an extension of the UN mandate.
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A top foreign policy adviser to Obama sat in on the meetings between the candidate and Iraqi officials this summer and said no such conversations occurred, the campaign said Monday.

Commissarka Pinkie wrote:The crimes of Palinazi.

Why, just the other day I read she tore all the tags off her mattresses and pillows.

But Obama's national security spokeswoman Wendy Morigi said Taheri's article bore "as much resemblance to the truth as a McCain campaign commercial."

In fact, Obama had told the Iraqis that they should not rush through a "Strategic Framework Agreement" governing the future of US forces until after President George W. Bush leaves office, she said.

Stalin for Time wrote:When fascist dictator Ronald Reagan was said to have stopped the negotiation process with our anti-american bothers in Iran after they saved 52 workers from the evil grip of capitalism, the Ministery of Propaganda (ABC, NBC, CBS, etc.) correctly told the proliteriat what to think. It was done to make Jimmy Carter look bad so Reagan would win the "election." (Though while not all that difficult to do, Carter was all we had.) We all know that elections in the Soviet style are the only true elections; only one candidate and party to choose so there is no confusion!

Now, when the Obamessiah actually does this, and blatently, no one is listening to the Ministery of Propaganda when they downplay it. They are thinking for themselves! I am in state of despair. (I think is right next to Ukraine.)

Ivan Betinov wrote:H&T, I've never read them, but I worked in a bookstore a few years ago. It's a series of novels based on the premise that the rapture has happened and the remnants are living in a society ruled by the Beast.

Red Square wrote:I saw the Left Behind movie, which is much like science fiction only with a religious flavor. The main villain in it is a young and promising new UN Secretary General who enchants the media because he CARES about the poor and the hungry and proposes global economic initiatives to help the downtrodden that require the creation of the global supergovernment. He turns out to be the Satan. I liked it.

I haven't seen the spinoffs, but the original one wasn't too bad.

Premier Betty wrote:When was this movie made? And how on earth did it get past the Hollywood Truth Filter™?