OBAMA TRIED TO STALL GIS' IRAQ WITHDRAWAL
New York Post article
I decided that I couldn't possibly write a better intro than the smear merchant Iranian exile right wing shill, Amir Taheri. I don't have the chops to lie so boldly straight to the faces of the American voters. I suppose it might come to me easier if I weren't one of those Americans with those much vaunted "small town values" but I am and that's that.
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but the story's already in the link, just another example of crazies from
Crazyland inventing crazy tales to drive their crazy agenda
That right wing propaganda rag the New York Post has unsurprisingly decided to run a story that could bring joy to the bottom feeding mud merchants. According to Taheri, Barrack spent his time in Iraq holding meetings with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari and Gen. David Petraeus where he tried in vain to convince them to "...delay an agreement until after the US elections and the formation of a new administration in Washington."
It's absolute fabrication as evidenced that there is absolutely NO confirmation from any other source, not even FAUX picked this up. Taheri's background even suggests that he's well known for (in the vernacular) making shit up. In '06 he published a story that accused Iran of passing a new law that would require Jews, Christians and Zoarastrians to wear special clothing, in '05 he falsely accuse a teaching assistant at San Francisco State University of being one of the hostage takers at the Tehran Embassy in 1979. Repeatedly throughout his career it's been shown that Taheri has a knack for creating conspiracies of whole cloth.
Shaul Bakhash of George Mason University has accused Amir Taheri of concocting nonexistent conpiracies in his writings, and states that he "repeatedly refers us to books where the information he cites simply does not exist. Often the documents cannot be found in the volumes to which he attributes them.... [He] repeatedly reads things into the documents that are simply not there."[16] Bakhash has stated that Taheri's 1988 Nest of Spies is "the sort of book that gives contemporary history a bad name."
Of course the McWaning campaign hurried to make use of the article,
...the possibility of such actions is unprecedented. It should be concerning to all that he reportedly urged that the democratically-elected Iraqi government listen to him rather than the US administration in power.
McCain Responds to Obama's Reported Undermining of the Commander-In-Chief During Wartime
Before "chicken littles" rush in to declare that the sky is indeed falling yet again be assured that the Obama campaign has also spoken on this matter,
Obama's national security spokeswoman Wendy Morigi said Taheri's article bore "as much resemblance to the truth as a McCain campaign commercial.
Obama camp hits back at Iraq double-talk claim
All in all it amounts to little more than just one more lie in the mountain of lies put out by the right wing smear merchants slinging everything they can think of in the hopes that eventually something will stick. These bitter right wing keyboard banging whackos seem to find infinite satisfaction in spreading their lies and their viral muslim e-mails in their incestuous noise machine feedback loop. I can only hope they'll keep each other busy swooning over their clever slams as they cackle over their keyboards and send this back and forth to each other along with their copies of Obama morphing into Osama until the copy degrades into useless static wasting infinite bandwidth.