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Sparks Fly Over Obama's Pakistan Speech
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ABC News' Teddy Davis Reports: For the second presidential debate in a row, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., came under fire for an Aug. 1 speech in which he said he would go after high-value Al Qaeda targets in Pakistan if the country's president was not willing to act.
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"You can think big but remember you shouldn't always say everything you think when you're running for president because it could have consequences across the world and we don't need that right now," said Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y.
Clinton's criticism of Obama, which was echoed at Tuesday's Democratic forum by Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., and added to by Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., came two days after the Illinois Democrat was hammered for his policy towards Pakistan by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at a GOP debate sponsored by ABC News.
Obama, who had the bulk of the Chicago crowd with him during the tense exchange, fired back at Clinton and Dodd by contrasting his early opposition to the Iraq war with the pro-war votes cast by his Democratic rivals in 2002.
"I find it amusing," said Obama, "that those who helped to authorize and engineer the biggest foreign policy disaster in our generation are now criticizing me for making sure that we are on the right battlefield and not the wrong battlefield in the war against terrorism."
The back-and-forth over Obama's Pakistan speech, which took place at an AFL-CIO forum televised by MSNBC, amounted to the fiercest clash thus far in the 2008 Democratic presidential race.
August 7, 2007 in Tancredo, Tom | Permalink | User Comments (22)
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The war on terror should have remained focus on the Taliban-Pak Army nexus, instead it got hooked onto a region with large oil reserves. The Taliban was one of the many infamous creations of the ISI, it was so obvious that Pakistan would never fully co-operate in eliminating such a vital human resource pool that fuels insurgency in Kashmir. Obama naive? I don't think so. He's sensible enough to know that any aid given needs to be accounted first! I don't know how feasible it is to invade Pakistan, but I do feel its nuclear arsenal needs to be dismantled without any further delay.
Posted by: a democrat | Sep 6, 2008 1:21:16 AM
pakistan has proved itself to be a rogue state .It follows a plicy of sendind in fidayeens to neighbouring states to kill unarmed civlians.Its plocy of massacre and mayhem culminated in its losing East Bengal over three decades ago.Then it followed a very brutal policy of massacring political opponents.When these hapless civilians started crossing over to India, then India had to tkkea tough stance and invade East Pakistan to put an end to mindless human massacre. Thus the world saw the birth of another nation known as Bangladesh.every time Pakistan has tried meddling with India, it has come out wounded and paralysed.Now this country which also unfortunately possesses nuclear weapons thanks to China is an international threat as the nuclear weapons can fall into the hands of jehadi elements.It is high time that internatinal community took determined steps to de-nuclearize and de-militarize Pakistan.
Posted by: anwar | Jan 22, 2009 4:50:40 AM
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