Say Anything Blog

First Obama tells us that the potential mass-murder of Iraqis isn’t a good enough reason to keep our troops in Iraq.  Then he tells Hillary that her vote in favor of the Iraq war was “irresponsible.”  Then he turns around and tells us that rushing our troops out of Iraq would be “irresponsible,” apparently because it now really does matter if Iraqis get mass-murdered.

Now, Senator Obama is telling us that he’d be tough on al Qaeda in the middle east…by invading Pakistan.

WASHINGTON - 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 holed up in those mountains who murdered 3,000 Americans. They are plotting to strike again. It was a terrible mistake to fail to act when we had a chance to take out an al-Qaida leadership meeting in 2005. If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won’t act, we will.”

Just for the record, Pakistan is a nuclear power.  And a sovereign nation that doesn’t want our troops in their country.  If Obama thinks invading Iraq was irresponsible, why is invading Pakistan (ostensibly an ally, though not a perfect one) suddenly a good idea?  Especially when Pakistan is trying to cooperate with our anti-terror operations while simultaneously trying to keep power in the face of some very extremist elements in its population?

And if Obama is oh-so-concerned about al Qaeda, why is he willing to cut-and-run from Iraq where we’re currently engaged with the terror group?

I think this proves how absolutely naive Senator Obama is.  Why anyone would continue to think of him as a serious candidate after this gaff is beyond me.