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No doubt, I thought Bush was heading into WW3 by doing things like this and the left cried foul.
Glass, interesting point you bring up. It did happen under his watch. Obama did say he would get tough on that area so he is just doing what he said. There is a huge double standard though because when this happened while Bush was president everyone lashed out.
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Oh man I am watching the white house spokesman asnwer questions right now live. They asked him about pakistan and he is refusing to address those questions.....interesting.
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my recollection is that when he said it? Bush did it three weeks later.
in the meantime? McCain and Hillary were both critsizing him for it.
i don't recall people complaining about Dubya doing it...
he can't very well stand up and beat his chest over it since that would force pakistani politicians to condemn him... instead they can all pretend it never happened, and the bad guys are dead...
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