>>>>>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/world/asia/15pstan.html?hp
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>>>>>Summary: 30 people killed in Pakistan from airstrike called by Obama. What give Obama the power to employ capital punishment on these people? Did they all have federal trials before being punished? I thought that's what he was all up in arms about regarding Gitmo.
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>>>>>I would expect the media to be harsh on Obama. Oh wait, the media is liberal-controlled. Obama is a savior while Bush is a blood-thirsty cowboy.
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>>>>Isn't it interesting how Obama's views on American action in the middle east changed after he began attending the morning CIA briefings at the White House with George Bush? Furthermore, not much changed after Obama became President. It makes me wonder what is being withheld from general public knowledge.
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>>>Based on my experience (although old), I'm sure it's something(s) you really don't want to know... :o)
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>>Also there's a certain amount of inertia in government so things done't necessarily change instantly.
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>That's a cop out.

Not really I think a different line will be taken but you don't turn a supertanker on a sixpence.

Anyway I expect Obama was well briefed before he was elected.

BTW I still think destabilising Pakistan by bombing parts of it is a big problem wether it was under Bush or Obama.