On Feb 19, 2008, at 4:10 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> Immediately after the assassinatin of Bhutto there was a large to-do
> concerning what if Pakistan's nuclear weapons fell into the hands of a
> "Islamist" government; my memory is that Obama suggested that under
> such conditions it would be appropriate to send u.s. troops to
> Pakistan. Can anyone confirm or disconfirm that memory?
You thinking of this? Note these were prepared remarks and not an off- the-cuff improvisation.
<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20070536/>
Obama says he might send troops to Pakistan Democratic hopeful said Musharraf should do more about terrorists
updated 9:09 a.m. ET, Wed., Aug. 1, 2007
WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Wednesday that he would possibly send troops into Pakistan to hunt down terrorists, an attempt to show strength when his chief rival has described his foreign policy skills as naive.
The Illinois senator warned Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf that he must do more to shut down terrorist operations in his country and evict foreign fighters under an Obama presidency, or Pakistan will risk a U.S. troop invasion and losing hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. military aid.
“Let me make this clear,” Obama said in a speech prepared for delivery at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. “There are terrorists holed up in those mountains 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-Qaida leadership meeting in 2005. If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won’t act, we will.”