Obama Like Bush???

After last nights Wisconsin primary John McCain criticized Barack Obama saying "we would risk the confused leadership of an inexperienced candidate, who once suggested bombing our ally Pakistan". Of course McCain took Obamas quote out of context, but that's not the rub here. McCain should have done his homework because the current President G.W.Bush authorized a strike IN PAKISTAN of a hellfire missle against a Al Queda terrorist and killed him WITHOUT the approval of the Pakistani government late last month.

U.S. strikes in Pakistan — without notice Unilateral attack on al-Qaeda commander called a model for operations

Joby Warrick and Robin Wright, The Washington Post

Feb. 18, 2008 In the predawn hours of Jan. 29, a CIA Predator aircraft flew in a slow arc above the Pakistani town of Mir Ali. The drone's operator, relying on information secretly passed to the CIA by local informants, clicked a computer mouse and sent the first of two Hellfire missiles hurtling toward a cluster of mud-brick buildings a few miles from the town center.The missiles killed Abu Laith al-Libi, a senior al-Qaeda commander and a man who had repeatedly eluded the CIA's dragnet. It was the first successful strike against al-Qaeda's core leadership in two years, and it involved, U.S. officials say, an unusual degree of autonomy by the CIA inside Pakistan.Having requested the Pakistani government's official permission for such strikes on previous occasions, only to be put off or turned down, this time the U.S. spy agency did not seek approval. The government of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was notified only as the operation was underway, according to the officials, who insisted on anonymity because of diplomatic sensitivities.


Which is exactly what Obama said he would do if he had solid intelligence on where Osama Bin Laden was. So Obama would and Bush DID attack without permission , but McCain would not??