Palins attacks Obama, failed to notice McCain said the same thing about killing civilians

Palins attacks Obama, failed to notice McCain said the same thing about killing civilians

By: Bobbi Linn

In recent days on the campaign trail, Palin has made it a point to go after Obama for suggesting that because we were merely air raiding villages, civilians were getting killed. Something that Ret. General McCaffrey has repeated in numerous appearances for Pentagon and military officials.

I checked into the history of McCain, and I found an article posted by the Washington Post that showed McCain himself had made similar comments regarding Kosovo.

During a Republican Primary debate in 2000, McCain called the Clinton strategy in Kosovo "obscene" because it forced American troops into using tactics that meant civilians were going to get killed.

McCain said: "In the most obscene chapter in American history is the conduct of the Kosovo conflict when the President of the United States refused to prepare for ground operations, refused to have air power used effectively because he wanted them flying -- he had them flying at 15,000 feet where they killed innocent civilians because they were dropping bombs from such -- in high altitude."

That is almost exactly what Barack Obama said last year about U.S. troops in Afghanistan, when he said the U.S. strategy has led to air strikes rather than controlling the ground — a remark that McCain, in a new ad announced this week, calls "dishonorable."
 
Here are Obama's words: "We've got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there."

Palin is reaching out depserately to help fill in the large gaps apparent in the McCain/Palin ticket. She seems to be grasping at straws. The polls show that the constant attacks from McCain and Palin against Obama, with no positive ads present, or no plan in sight for the economy that differs from the Bush plan has left McCain trailing by 11 points. Perhaps Palin ought to look up the record of her own running mate before she goes on the attack. It would save them a lot of embarrassment.