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McCain Calling Pakistan a "Failed State" (40s)

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WTF...McCain makes Bush look like a diplomatic genius.. confused about Spain, threatening to fire people he can't? Acts like a bully needing someone to pick on.

written by winkler1

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No no no, McCain was talking about the rough patches and military governments that Pakistan had in the 1950s-1980s when he said Pakistan WAS a failed state.

I dont know if it was a failed state back then, there were some tough times but failed state might be abit much; McCain in the debate was NOT refering to modern Pakistan as a failed state.

I dont know how that got blown out of proportion.

written by wjolson | 1 month 3 weeks ago | CH

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Yeah, it's a complete distortion to say that McCain was referring to modern day Pakistan as a failed state. He wasn't.

What McCain said was "I don't think that Senator Obama understands that there was a failed state in Pakistan when Musharraf came to power. Everybody who was around then, and had been there, and knew about it knew that it was a failed state."

Now, that could still be BS claim. I honestly don't know. Wikipedia has relatively little about the 1999 coup that put Musharraf in power
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Pakistani_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

written by rychan