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Just over a year ago, Obama stated he would invade Pakistan without permission – a key US ally against terrorism and a nuclear power with 8x the population of Iraq, to hunt down al-Qaeda.
If remnants of al-Qaeda then crossed over the Pakistani border could we be saying that Pakistan didn't have an al-Qaeda presence?
"Pakistan, a key ally of the US in the war on terrorism, reacted angrily, advising all American politicians to refrain from inflammatory remarks. “These are serious matters and should not be used for point-scoring,” Tasnim Aslam, a spokeswoman for the Pakistani Foreign Ministry, said. “Political candidates and commentators should show responsibility.”"
Is this Obama's idea of diplomacy and tact? Scary stuff when a child tries to act tough.
Mr Obama said: “There are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered 3,000 Americans. They are plotting to strike again . . . If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won’t act, we will.” From your SOURCE
Let's see....this made sense to everyone but you? Didn't the President do Exactly this, shortly after this statement back in August 2007?
Come on, neither candidate should inspire you to have the warm and fuzzies for them over the nuclear issue. I'm still blinking over McCain's response to the Russia/Georgia issue. On a whole though, going into Pakistan after Al Queda certainly has more merit than going into Iraq after them doesn't it?
. . . On a whole though, going into Pakistan after Al Queda certainly has more merit than going into Iraq after them doesn't it?
Why? In Pakistan you have an ally assisting in the search -- they have produced results although everyone admittedly wants bin Laden's head. In Iraq you had an anti-American dictator offering sanctuary for bin Laden (according to the bi-partisan 9/11 report.)
Regardless, most after Iraq would in Aug 07 learned enough to at least be cautious about invading another country. No Obama. Ally or no ally, and while in the midst of the Iraq dark days, he's all for invading another country in an effort to look tough. Hillary blasted him on it at the time.
Why? In Pakistan you have an ally assisting in the search -- they have produced results although everyone admittedly wants bin Laden's head. In Iraq you had an anti-American dictator offering sanctuary for bin Laden (according to the bi-partisan 9/11 report.)
Regardless, most after Iraq would in Aug 07 learned enough to at least be cautious about invading another country. No Obama. Ally or no ally, and while in the midst of the Iraq dark days, he's all for invading another country in an effort to look tough. Hillary blasted him on it at the time.
Well said!
Obama can do it but not GWB. Hmmm Of course Saddam was not an ally and not helping with Al-Qaeda...Pakistan is trying but it is a civil war for them as Al-Qaeda have married into their society and now you are asking the Pakistani people to kill and imprison their own family members. Not an easy task and not a good idea to invade when they are working to help us while working against their own families. Obama Change that will have the entire Middle East firing missiles in our direction.
Seems to me that GWB is doing it, right now. Didn't we cross into Pakistan twice this past week? We might have had an ally in Musharraf, but he was a military dictator in a politically unstable country. The writing was on the wall over a year ago when this Obama quote occurred, and since then the situation in Pakistan (a country with nuclear capability) has become even more precarious. Seems to me that if Obama says he would pursue Al-Qaeda into Pakistan he's damned for inflaming the Mid-East, but if he didn't he'd be damned by the same people who criticize Clinton for not being more vigorous in his pursuit of bin Laden pre-9/11.
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