Bill Sammon reported contrast in Obama, Bush positions on Pakistan, but not Bush flip-flops

Published: August 7, 2007, 7:30 pm

Tags: bill sammon, fox news channel, special report brit hume, 2008 elections, barack obama, government elections, national security foreign policy, terrorism

On the August 6 edition of Fox News' Special Report, referring to Sen. Barack Obama's (D-IL) recent statement that as president, he would take action against "high-value terrorist targets" in Pakistan if President Pervez Musharraf "won't act," Bill Sammon, Washington Examiner senior White House correspondent and Fox News contributor, asserted that President Bush put "some distance between himself and Barack Obama" on this issue, claiming that, during his August 6 press conference, Bush said, "[W]e'll go after terrorists in Pakistan, but we'll work with Musharraf to do that," as Sammon put it. In fact, during the press conference, Bush refused to give a direct answer to a question on the issue of whether he would pursue terrorists in Pakistan without Musharraf's consent, and he has given conflicting statements on this issue in the past. Special Report guest host Bret Baier aired a video clip of Bush from the press conference, in which Bush

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