Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said that U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's campaign managers had reassured Baghdad that if Obama is elected he will not dramatically change Washington's policy towards Iraq and will take into account the opinions of the commanders in the field.
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And if so, haven't we seen this movie before, with the whole Obama-Canada-Nafta debacle? On the one hand, the Obama team tells the left what it wants to hear; on the other, the Obama team tells the countries that would be affected by his purported policies just to pay him no mind.
Way to "rebuild" our credibility abroad, right? After all, one can fault George W. for some things, but being two-faced and unclear about where America stands on any given issue certainly isn't one of them.
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