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If America is foolish enough to elect this presumptuous and meddling Marxist, this country will be irreparable damaged.

Excerpt from the Washington Times (Barbara Slavin)…

At the same time the Bush administration was negotiating a still elusive agreement to keep the U.S. military in Iraq, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama tried to convince Iraqi leaders in private conversations that the president shouldn’t be allowed to enact the deal without congressional approval.

Mr. Obama’s conversations with the Iraqi leaders, confirmed to The Washington Times by his campaign aides, began just two weeks after he clinched the Democratic presidential nomination in June and stirred controversy over the appropriateness of a White House candidate’s contacts with foreign governments while the sitting president is conducting a war.

When the NY Post broke this story on Monday with an article by Amir Taheri, we wrote about and posted a link to it on this blog. It took Move America Forward PAC only two days to make this short but effective video/commercial highlighting the hypocrisy and treacherousness of Obama…

The original video has been pulled from youtube. Here is the replacement!

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UPDATE 9/17/2008 4:24 pm: Here’s a link to the video/commercial re: this issue…click here to see it.

Amil Taheri, an Iranian-born journalist, makes the outrageous but quite plausible accusation in today’s NY Post that Obama, while in Bahgdad, tried to persuade key Iraqi leaders to delay a withdrawal agreement until after the Presidential Election. Taheri indicates that this information was provided by Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari.

Furthermore, he tried to persuade U.S. commanders and Gen Petraeus to suggest a timetable for withdrawal…something they have said all along is inappropriate because such withdrawal must be based on developments on the ground not on a plan drawn up in a vacuum.

On all counts, Obama was rebuffed.

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We are moving this video embed over from the old site and thought it deserving of marquee position instead of just being tucked away in archives. See if you don’t agree (it’s a classic)…

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Obama might have been more active as a Senator than we thought.

Let’s see if this story gains traction. Excerpt and link…

Obama tied to Iraqi government fraud?
by Aaron Klein
WND

JERUSALEM – Sen. Barack Obama’s office engaged in six months of negotiations with a company controlled by convicted criminal Tony Rezko to lobby the U.S. government to push through a nixed $50 million contact to train Iraqi security personnel at a site in Chicago.

The contract was awarded to Rezko’s company while Aiham Alsammarae, a long-time, close Rezko friend and a contributor to Obama’s campaign, served as Iraq’s U.S.-appointed electricity minister.

Rezko was a major Obama fundraiser and associate for two decades.

Alsammarae also awarded another Rezko-controlled operation as part of a $150 million contract to construct a 250-megawatt electricity plant in Iraq.

Alsammarae later was arrested by Iraqi authorities for bilking the coalition government out of some $650 million. He was sprung from prison under questionable circumstances in 2006 and escaped from Iraq, where he is still wanted for questioning with regard to major financial crimes.

The information raises questions into the nature of Obama’s relationship with multiple deals made by Iraq’s Electricity Ministry while Alsammarae was in charge. Obama has ties to Alsammarae and to the recipients of several of the massive contracts Alsammarae handed out.

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Keywords: rezko, Chicago Political Machine, Chicago politics, Iraq, Alsammarae, fraud, Iraq Electricity Ministry, Aiham Alsammarae, Chicago