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By Tommy Christopher
Sep 19th 2008

Earlier this week, a story appeared on these pages "wondering" whether Barack Obama was a "traitor," guilty of "villainous treason" for trying to "delay an agreement" on a drawdown of US troops. There were two things that gave me pause about the story. First, the lone source cited to support the story was an opinion piece in the New York Post.

The second was the opening phrase of the story:
If this story is true,
Turns out it ain't. From Jake Tapper:
Lending significant credence to Obama's response is the fact that -- though it's absent from the Post story and other retellings -- in addition to Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, this July meeting was also attended by Bush administration officials, such as U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker and the Baghdad embassy's legislative affairs advisor Rich Haughton, as well as a Republican senator, Chuck Hagel of Nebraska.

Attendees of the meeting back Obama's account, including not just Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., but Hagel, and Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffers from both parties. Officials of the Bush administration who were briefed on the meeting by the U.S. embassy in Baghdad also support Obama's account and dispute the Post story and McCain attack.

Full story here http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008...ost-iraq-story/