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Obama should run an ad talking about how George Bush is trying his ideas in foriegn policy. Bush certianly is not listening to McCain..

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger | September 11, 2008 11:16 AM
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Where the fuck is the press on all this? The American memory may be short, but I'm sure a little background can jog our memories.

Posted by Ziggity | September 11, 2008 11:26 AM
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what number one said. mccain is doing it for the surge. well, that was before his focus on pigs.

Posted by cochise. | September 11, 2008 11:31 AM
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We certainly didn't give a fuck about the sovereignty of Afghanistan or Iraq.

Posted by keshmeshi | September 11, 2008 11:53 AM
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@2: where the fuck is the press? humping palin's leg.

Posted by max solomon | September 11, 2008 12:11 PM
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Not that anyone cares, but isn't bombing another country's citizens an act of war?

Posted by Original Andrew | September 11, 2008 12:13 PM
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Sounds to me like we could be looking at "Shock And Awe II: The Fracas In Caracas" if McSame has his way.

Posted by COMTE | September 11, 2008 12:16 PM
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@6: McCain wildly misrepresented Obama's views when he said Obama wanted to bomb Pakistan. In fact, he was suggesting Special Ops actions of the type that the Bush administration is now pursuing.

Posted by annie | September 11, 2008 1:49 PM
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annie @ 8,


Yes, but doesn't that make bombing the citizens of one of our allies--without even notifying their sovereign, democratically elected government--an even more reckless, illegal move? Especially in light of widespread reports that innocent civilians have been killed?

Posted by Original Andrew | September 11, 2008 3:19 PM
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The problem is the word "bomb." Obama won't; Bush isn't.

Missile strikes have been happening for a long time. What they're doing now is putting some Special Ops people on the ground. Pakistan knows very well this is a consequence of Pakistan failing to take the same actions against their supposed enemies (some of whom, yes, are citizens, though most are FATA citizens--they didn't even get the right to vote until 1997 and still don't enjoy the full rights and protections of other Pakistanis).

Posted by annie | September 12, 2008 8:20 AM
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The last time the US-backed Pakistani military attempted a takeover of Waziristan, it lost hundreds of soldiers in an offensive that ultimately failed. The failure was so catastrophic that it forced the government into a September 2006 cease-fire agreement with the frontier tribes, all the while fanning the flames of anti-Western resentment within both the general population and the national security forces. Continuing to pressure the demoralized Pakistani military into killing their own people on behalf of a foreign power is a recipe for disaster, and a roadmap to an eventual anti-US Islamist coup inside a country armed with nuclear weapons.

Of course Bush and McCain lied about Obama. It's in their genetic code to lie, steal (the Keating Five, anyone?), and suck hard in general. But that doesn't make Obama's plan to escalate a destabilizing and unwinnable war in south Asia a good idea. And I would hate to see so many good-natured liberals openly defend such madness in an effort to score political points against McCain, his lunacy notwithstanding.

Posted by Keith | September 13, 2008 5:26 PM

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