Pakistan Urges George Bush, I mean Obama To Stop Killing Civilians…

I doubt if anyone else sees the irony in what is going on in Pakistan vis-a-vis Obama’s first airstrike…

Candidate Obama had the following words of wisdom about U.S Strategy in Afghanistan: Breitbart

Asked whether he would move U.S. troops out of Iraq to better fight terrorism elsewhere, he brought up Afghanistan and said, “We’ve got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we’re not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there.”

here’s the video:

Well, Obama is no longer a candidate for his party’s nomination, or a candidate for POTUS, he is actually the POTUS himself. What does he authorize our armed forces to do?

Why, the exact thing he criticized them for doing under George Bush of course; air raid villages and if innocent civilians are killed in the process, so be it… FoxNews

Pakistan urged President Barack Obama to halt U.S. missile strikes on Al Qaeda strongholds near the Afghan border, saying Saturday that civilians were killed the previous day in the first attacks since Obama’s inauguration.

But the Foreign Ministry said that the attacks by unmanned aircraft also killed an unspecified number of civilians and that it had informed U.S. officials of its “great concern.”

“With the advent of the new U.S. administration, it is Pakistan’s sincere hope that the United States will review its policy and adopt a more holistic and integrated approach toward dealing with the issue of terrorism and extremism,” a ministry statement said.

“We maintain that these attacks are counterproductive and should be discontinued,” it said.

Oh boy, I bet many of those who voted for Obama were kind of hoping he would keep his word and change this particular US Policy… must be kind of a let down to vote for Obama, but instead get Bush Redux…r

As for me, I have no problem with using unmanned drones to kill folks who want to kill us, but then again, I voted for people who actually didn’t lie to us about their plans for waging the war on terror, and I am of course referring to McCain/Palin…

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