Don't rain on my parade

Barack Obama's worst nightmare...the war in Iraq starts winding down and troops start coming home before he ascends into heaven...er, the White House. This rather unfortunate scenario would undercut one of his campaign's main talking points...the illegal war in Iraq, which he didn't vote for, but has continually voted to keep funding. If the sheep...er, the common people start seeing progress in Iraq, they might start thinking that Bush's "Surge" was successful. And if the military signals that they are ready to start sending troops home sooner than later, that would diminish his anti-war campaign platform by highlighting the success of the current administration's management of the war. It would also highlight McCain's insight on how to manage the war.

So, what's a community organzier-turned Junior Senator to do? This can't be allowed to happen. So, this should come as no surprise to most people:

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."

Wow. So rather than putting his country and the soldiers first, Obama tried to pressure the Iraqi government into postponing any troop-level agreement until after the U.S. elections, so they could deal with the next administration. Presumably his.

Mr. Obama, who the hell do you think you are? Criticize the war in Iraq all you want. But don't you dare stick your elitist head into vital national security issues that you have no business being part of, nor have any jurisdiction over. The media hasn't appointed you the Supreme Being quite yet, you jackass.