McCain on Pakistan: FNC 10/07/08

John McCain
"Presidential Debate" 10:10pm
Debate

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JOHN MCCAIN: You know, my hero is a guy named Teddy Roosevelt. Teddy Roosevelt used to say walk softly -- talk softly, but carry a big stick. Sen. Obama likes to talk loudly.

In fact, he said he wants to announce that he's going to attack Pakistan. Remarkable.

You know, if you are a country and you're trying to gain the support of another country, then you want to do everything you can that they would act in a cooperative fashion.

When you announce that you're going to launch an attack into another country, it's pretty obvious that you have the effect that it had in Pakistan: It turns public opinion against us.

Now, let me just go back with you very briefly. We drove the Russians out with -- the Afghan freedom fighters drove the Russians out of Afghanistan, and then we made a most serious mistake. We washed our hands of Afghanistan. The Taliban came back in, Al Qaeda, we then had the situation that required us to conduct the Afghan war.

Now, our relations with Pakistan are critical, because the border areas are being used as safe havens by the Taliban and Al Qaeda and other extremist organizations, and we have to get their support.

Now, General Petraeus had a strategy, the same strategy -- very, very different, because of the conditions and the situation -- but the same fundamental strategy that succeeded in Iraq. And that is to get the support of the people.

We need to help the Pakistani government go into Waziristan, where I visited, a very rough country, and -- and get the support of the people, and get them to work with us and turn against the cruel Taliban and others.

And by working and coordinating our efforts together, not threatening to attack them, but working with them, and where necessary use force, but talk softly, but carry a big stick.

JM JM FNC 10-07-08 22.10 (JR#521)

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[eddyvohra]

yea and pakistan will fuck u ;)

now u tel us where u wanna be fucked??

ass?? pussy??

[sunnyrules1]

pakistan is right now in a state that is completely corrupted. i am a muslim from pakistan and am really sad to say that. but our leaders are not true leaders. they are savages who run after wealth. and i as a pakistani feel horrible because our constitution was never meant to be what it is now. infact some radical clerics in pakistan call me an infidel because i am loyal to the country i am living in now, Canada. pakistan needs to have a fundamental law then to establish religious monarchy.

[thenewmike2012]

This from the same John McCain that sang "Bomb, bomb, bomb, ..bomb bomb Iran"

[methodmaine]

@Zimbabwegal Brilliant analysis. FAIL! Obama did exactly what he said he would do in this video. Results are in....Obama was the right choice for America.

[methodmaine]

@eddyvohra Oooooohhhhh Eddyvohra--- It would appear that the fucking is on YOU! LOL! Pakistan is a bunch of bitches. Obama just gave them a slap. LOL

[methodmaine]

@crazymano4eva LOL! Any more questions?

[methodmaine]

@shay10chief Well said Shay....except for the part where you are entirely wrong! LOL!

[crazymano4eva]

no one can fuck with pakistan

bush couldn't do it then whose obama ...

[khiljiauto]

Use force, talk softly, carry a big stick? What the fuckk this dumb mutha ffucker Mccain talking about. We will put the stick back in his America's ass. Only in the month on July 80 Faggoty Coalition white boy killed in Afghanistan.

Bring it on TALIBAN is ready. This war is going to be very interesting for west.

[manukhan1987]

teddy roosevelt was fascist franklin roosevelt was my hero

[shay10chief]

fuck you man you actually want war. I know that obama is the next war president, hungary for war and profits at the expense of innocent people. Im not saying everyone in pakistan is innocent. But osama is dead! 6 feet under for the last few years. He can't be used as an excuse 2 justify winning a war in pakistan. Why do you think they had to make fake osama tapes to justify the iraq war. Because he wasn't making recordings because the n#1 pasty of all time has been dead for a while now. Wake up