From an article entitled As Afghanistan boils, McCain keeps focus on Iraq in the Christian Science Monitor:
In a remark that sparked controversy, [Obama] said he would not rule out a unilateral strike in Pakistan.
"If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won't act, we will," he said in a Washington speech last August.
McCain later highlighted the statement as a sign of Obama's lack of foreign-policy experience. "You don't broadcast that you are going to bomb a country that is a sovereign nation," McCain, who has endorsed a cooperative approach with Mr. Musharraf, said in February. "It's just fundamentals of the conduct of national security policy."
Unless you're George W. Bush. In that case, you publicly announce that Saddam Hussein & Co. has 48 hours to turn over the reigns of their (apparently un-sovereign) country or else you'll bomb the living daylights out of it; you then start firing missiles in targeted attacks even before he 48-hour deadline is reached; after the 48-hour warning period, you treat the citizens of Baghdad to a special fireworks show, eliciting shouts of "shocking!" and "awesome!" /smirk/
Since John McCain clearly has a strong grasp of the "fundamentals of the conduct of national security policy," as evidenced by his stellar academic background and ability to crash fighter jets, we can only infer that Iraq never was a sovereign nation, making Mr. Bush's actions perfectly legitimate and even worth emulating for another four years. Ha.
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