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Obama Gets Tough
IBD ^ | August 1, 2007

Posted on 08/01/2007 5:09:46 PM PDT by Kaslin

War On Terror: Sen. Barack Obama thinks troops should be sent into Pakistan. But he really wants to fight terrorism the same way liberals combat inner-city crime: with social programs financed by U.S. taxpayers.


After foolishly promising as president to meet unconditionally with terrorist states, Obama, the Illinois Democrat, has gotten tough: He now wants U.S. forces to zero in on the mountains of northwest Pakistan bordering Afghanistan, where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden may still be alive.

"There are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered 3,000 Americans," Obama told the Woodrow Wilson Center on Wednesday. "If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won't act, we will."

First of all, Obama has no known plans to rectify our dangerous shortcomings in good, old-fashioned human spying and enable us to gather the kind of "actionable intelligence" he's talking about.

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1 posted on 08/01/2007 5:09:47 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
He doesn’t have the stomach to fight in Iraq, but he wants to dive into Pakistan, where the fighting would be far bloodier.

All based on the premise that if we just had OBL in a prison cell, the war would be over.

2 posted on 08/01/2007 5:27:55 PM PDT by SampleMan (Islamic tolerance is practiced by killing you last.)
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To: SampleMan
All based on the premise that if we just had OBL in a prison cell, the war would be over.<[> You can'tput a piece of dust in a prison cell
3 posted on 08/01/2007 5:41:39 PM PDT by Kaslin (The Surge is working and the li(e)berals know it)
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To: SampleMan

You say whatever it takes to get elected!


4 posted on 08/01/2007 5:42:39 PM PDT by gbs
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To: Kaslin
.All based on the premise that if we just had OBL in a prison cell, the war would be over.

You can'tput a piece of dust in a prison cell

5 posted on 08/01/2007 5:43:21 PM PDT by Kaslin (The Surge is working and the li(e)berals know it)
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To: Kaslin

Obama is dead. Fear drove him to suicide.


6 posted on 08/01/2007 5:44:46 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Happiness is a down sleeping bag)
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To: gbs
You say whatever it takes to get elected!

But who does this appeal to? Hawks who are ready to put our GDP and blood into the war and make Pakistan into a parking lot, would never vote for the socialist Obama, who they know isn't telling the truth anyway. Conversely, the pinkos have got to cringe at such talk.

I just think its the dumbest political move, on top of everything else.

7 posted on 08/01/2007 5:47:52 PM PDT by SampleMan (Islamic tolerance is practiced by killing you last.)
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He wants to be a “cowboy” in Pakistan, but complains that there is no coalition in Iraq. Idiot!!!

[Mr] T

8 posted on 08/01/2007 6:18:16 PM PDT by trooprally (Never Give Up - Never Give In - Remember Our Troops)
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To: SampleMan
I just think its the dumbest political move, on top of everything else.

Maybe so, but he's clean!

9 posted on 08/01/2007 6:20:11 PM PDT by Steely Tom
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To: SampleMan

“Hawks who are ready to put our GDP and blood into the war and make Pakistan into a parking lot, would never vote for the socialist Obama, who they know isn’t telling the truth anyway. Conversely, the pinkos have got to cringe at such talk. I just think its the dumbest political move, on top of everything else.”

Lefty-wefties think themselves so much more intelligent than us that they assume they can get over on us any time.

How many have come here posing as conservatives, thinking they were going to fool everybody?


10 posted on 08/01/2007 6:21:08 PM PDT by dsc (There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men. Edmund Burke)
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To: Steely Tom

And articulate!


11 posted on 08/01/2007 6:24:19 PM PDT by SampleMan (Islamic tolerance is practiced by killing you last.)
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To: Kaslin

If you want the whole Muslim world to run amok, you deploy American forces into Pakistani soil, the epicenter of Muslim extremism.
Obama should put his PS3 away and do his homework...


12 posted on 08/01/2007 6:39:33 PM PDT by citizencon
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To: trooprally

In my book, he’s black. So what?

Obama wants to attack Pakistan, overtly?

An empty suit, pockets filled with sophistry.

But, it could be enough to get him elected in the reality show loving, vaccuous society that I still claim to be America.


13 posted on 08/01/2007 6:44:11 PM PDT by Hilltop (?)
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To: SampleMan

Love your tagline, brilliant.


14 posted on 08/01/2007 7:34:31 PM PDT by Hilltop (?)
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To: dsc

But thats what they do and it hopefully, will come home to roost.


15 posted on 08/01/2007 7:41:55 PM PDT by gbs
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