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September 17, 2008
Treacherous Behavior in Iraq Is Consistent With BO's MO
Posted by Dave Blount at September 17, 2008 8:30 PM
IBDeditorials provides some background for the appalling revelations that while in Iraq, Obama violated the Logan Act by trying to stall the return of American troops, preferring to keep them in harm's way until he could take office and get credit from bringing them home himself.
Can Obama be trusted? We ask because he's shown a pattern of secretive double-dealing with voters, not just in his talking about small town voters one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco, as Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin pointed out, but particularly in foreign affairs.
It dates back to at least February, when Obama's economic adviser, Austan Goolsbee, secretly told the Canadian embassy that Obama's demagoguery against NAFTA in the primaries was just a Styrofoam-pillar bid to win the Ohio vote.
Obama's pattern of deception continued. In March, Colombian troops raided a FARC terrorist camp in Ecuador and recovered a terrorist computer belonging to a top FARC warlord, Raul Reyes.
Computer e-mails revealed that someone who knew Obama's positions had secretly met with the terrorists and assured them Obama would cut U.S. military aid under Plan Colombia and veto its free trade pact. Both are major goals of the Marxist terrorists aligned with America's enemies.
Subsequent events confirmed this. Obama did come out in favor of shutting Colombia out of free trade. More disturbingly, Obama adviser Daniel Restrepo last week told Colombia's Radio Caracol that Obama planned to convert the military aid Colombia needs to crush terrorists into social aid programs that don't.
Unlike Obama's double-dealing in Iraq, these other incidents stop well short of treasonous. But all of them are clear indications The One is not someone who can be trusted in a position of authority.
On a tip from Byron.
