 Presidential hopeful Barack Obama was chastised on Tuesday during a debate between Democratic candidates vying for the party nomination for his remarks on Pakistan.
| Headline could read: "Easy target leads to Dog Pile on the Rabbit" |
Senator Christopher Dodd of Illinois
| He moved? Is that why my Christmas card came back? |
| Ohgawd, and we have Obama and Durbin already ... |
said, "I think it is highly irresponsible of people who are running for the presidency and seek that office to suggest we may be willing unilaterally to invade a nation here that we are trying to get to be more cooperative with us in Afghanistan and elsewhere."
| On the other hand, not invading them hasn't worked well. Just sayin'. |
Obama responded, "Well, look, I find it amusing that those who helped to authorise and engineer the biggest foreign policy disaster in our generation are now criticising me
| ... for trying to make a bigger one? |
for making sure that we are on the right battlefield and not the wrong battlefield in the war against terrorism."
| "There are no terrorists in Iraq. Everybody knows that." |
At this point, Hillary Clinton, the frontrunner, slapped him intervened to say that regardless of the soundness of Obama's policy, he should avoid speaking hypothetically as a candidate for president. "I think it is a very big mistake to telegraph that, and to destabilise the Musharraf regime, which is fighting for its life against the Islamist extremists who are in bed with Al Qaeda and [the] Taliban." |