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“Or will we risk the confused leadership of an inexperienced candidate who once suggested bombing our ally Pakistan and suggested sitting down without preconditions or clear purpose with enemies who support terrorists and are intent on destabilizing the world by acquiring nuclear weapons? I think you know the answer to that question.”
Too bad Obama never said that:
"I understand that President Musharraf has his own challenges... But let me make this clear. 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 will not act, we will."
Obama
and what happened a little while ago?
"In the predawn hours of Jan. 29, a CIA Predator aircraft flew in a slow arc above the Pakistani town of Mir Ali. The drone's operator, relying on information secretly passed to the CIA by local informants, clicked a computer mouse and sent the first of two Hellfire missiles hurtling toward a cluster of mud-brick buildings a few miles from the town center.
The missiles killed Abu Laith al-Libi, a senior al-Qaeda commander and a man who had repeatedly eluded the CIA's dragnet. It was the first successful strike against al-Qaeda's core leadership in two years, and it involved, U.S. officials say, an unusual degree of autonomy by the CIA inside Pakistan."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/18/AR2008021802500.html?hpid=topnews
Sounds a lot like what Obama said, doesn't it?
Obama has said from the very beginning that he wants change but in order to get there he will need to get the help of the American people. He has always stated not to expect to get him in the office and then wait for everything to get better.
McCain has said that he will make us all safer. He is playing up the fear once again, taking a page out of the GWB playbook. He would like us to let him make us safe and watch him drive us into another war and or off another cliff.
No thanks.
As far as talking to other leaders...you're darn right I want to talk with them. What is everyone so afraid of? What has ostracizing them gotten us? Not a thing.