World Can’t Wait/Drive Out the Bush
Regime asks:
Which presidential candidate threatened
to bomb Pakistan, with or without the approval of the Pakistani government?
“Let me make this clear. There are
terrorists holed up in those mountains (in Pakistan) 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-Qaeda leadership
meeting in 2005. If we have actionable intelligence about high-value
terrorist targets and President Musharraf won’t act, we will.” http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id
Answer – Barack Obama, in a speech to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars. The speech outlines Obama’s proposals for a foreign policy
different from Bush’s. In it, Obama pledges (among other things) to
maintain a large U.S. military presence in Iraq (which Obama calls “ending
the war”), using military force to “take out terrorists”, ensuring
that the military become more “stealthy, agile and lethal” in its
ability to “capture or kill terrorists”, and to better “to integrate
all aspects of American might”.
Obama likes to present himself as a candidate
who will end the wars the Bush Regime initiated. But listen to what
he actually is saying. His whole program of military deployment, procurement,
and development, and of diplomatic and civilian initiatives is aimed
at “waging the war that has to be won”, and waging the wars the
Bush Regime has begun with more “wisdom” than Bush.