Obama Says He'd Invade Pakistan |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 7:55 pm |
| Tags: 2008 presidential race |
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First he said he would talk to leaders of North Korea, Iran, and Cuba without any conditions, now he says the US should invade Pakistan, a really dangerous idea since we need Musharraf in power since the person who would replace him should he be overthrown or assassinated would be significantly worse. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Wednesday that he would possibly send troops into Pakistan to hunt down terrorists, an attempt to show strength when his chief rival has described his foreign policy skills as naive. The Illinois senator warned Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf that he must do more to shut down terrorist operations in his country and evict foreign fighters under an Obama presidency, or Pakistan will risk a U.S. troop invasion and losing hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. military aid. "Let me make this clear," Obama said in a speech prepared for delivery at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. "There are terrorists [ Full article ] |
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