Wonder why we haven’t heard about this:
“”While George W. Bush was trying to negotiate a drawdown of our military presence in Iraq back in 2008, a Senator sent a delegation to Baghdad and met privately with Iraqi officials, urging them to reject any of President Bush’s overtures, saying the Bush Administration was in a “state of weakness and political confusion.”
That senator? Now-President Barack Obama.
A New York Post article from 2008 details how adamant Obama was that Bush and his team were weak and that the Iraqis should wait until a new administration stepped in (him, presumably) to re-start negotiations.””
This is why they are really angry - it exposes their holier than thou attitude and it uses one of the left’s plays against them. Namely the I won’t negotiate, so don’t bother trying blue sky demand tactic and telegraphing what lawmakers/the pres__ent will do so as to change the playing field or to force your opponent to negotiate with themselves.