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Thompson on Pakistan: 'This is a war we're engaged in'
CNN ^ | 122707 Posted: 01:57 PM ET | Martina Stewart

Posted on 12/27/2007 8:39:27 PM PST by Fred

(CNN) – Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson has weighed in on the death of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

“This is a war that we’re engaged in. It’s an international conflict,” said Thompson. “It’s a global conflict. Al Qaeda wants to bring Western civilization to its knees.”

Thompson also told reporters Thursday that he thinks “terrorism has never left the agenda” of the 2008 presidential race. “This is no time for on-the-job training,” added the former Tennessee senator, emphasizing the need for experience....

(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bhutto; fredthompson; pakistan
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To: Prokopton

I personally do not trust Musharaff, do you? He had promised safe passage to Bhutto but did not deliver.


21 posted on 12/27/2007 9:30:44 PM PST by Saundra Duffy (Romney Rocks!!!)
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To: Bobbisox

I wish Thompson would promise to get Osama ‘dead or alive,’ and mean it, if he becomes president.


22 posted on 12/27/2007 9:40:26 PM PST by FFranco
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To: Saundra Duffy
I personally do not trust Musharaff, do you? He had promised safe passage to Bhutto but did not deliver.

Trust him or not, he is the leader of a large and very important country with a nuclear arsenal. The experience of meeting and talking with Musharaff could be invaluable to someone who must deal with him as president. Thompson (and McCain) has this experience, Romney and Huckabee don't.

23 posted on 12/27/2007 9:41:50 PM PST by Prokopton
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To: Saundra Duffy
.....and did u hear what that former officer said about your mother??????? ...whats his name again?...Do u remember him at your house that night?
24 posted on 12/27/2007 9:50:48 PM PST by M-cubed (Why is "Greshams Law" a law?)
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To: Saundra Duffy; Prokopton

So what is the story? You have to give us some information if you want to use that attack.

Where is the origin so that we can look at it?


25 posted on 12/27/2007 9:57:38 PM PST by ansel12 (Washington:I cannot tell a lie,Clinton:I cannot tell the truth,Romney:I cannot tell the difference.)
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To: Fred

Fred came across great in that short video...he is the right man for the big job.


26 posted on 12/27/2007 9:59:11 PM PST by Bobalu (I guess I done see'd that varmint for the last time....)
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To: ansel12

Just the latest MittWitt talking point sent out from the Romney camp.


27 posted on 12/27/2007 9:59:58 PM PST by rintense (Thompson/Hunter 2008!)
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To: Saundra Duffy
Oh NO! That report by an anonymous CIA officer is so damning! I’m completely disgusted and I am giving up my support for Fred Thompson. I simply had no idea that he actually eats and drinks!
28 posted on 12/27/2007 10:00:28 PM PST by Route66 (America's Main Street - - - Fred D. Thompson / Consistent Conservative...The One with Gravitas)
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To: Bobalu
He also did a great job on Hannity and Colmes.

Perhaps the events in Pakistan will force the MSM to actually focus on candidates who have foreign policy experience.

The only Dem with any credible experience (and that's a term I use loosely) is Joe Biden.

29 posted on 12/27/2007 10:02:39 PM PST by rintense (Thompson/Hunter 2008!)
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30 posted on 12/27/2007 10:16:27 PM PST by Politicalmom (Huckabee’s foreign policy experience consists of eating at the International House of Pancakes.)
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To: FFranco
I wish Thompson would promise to get Osama ‘dead or alive,’ and mean it, if he becomes president.

That wouldn't be a good thing to say about Obama.

HUH? Nevermind..

31 posted on 12/27/2007 10:22:58 PM PST by MaxMax (God Bless America)
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To: rintense; Saundra Duffy; Route66

“Just the latest MittWitt talking point sent out from the Romney camp.”


It isn’t even that, from what I could find post 11 is it, just some words plucked out of thin air, a total lie.

I couldn’t find anything more, period, just the words she posted.

Here is the article where the words appear.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1944451/posts?page=1,100


32 posted on 12/27/2007 10:27:00 PM PST by ansel12 (Washington:I cannot tell a lie,Clinton:I cannot tell the truth,Romney:I cannot tell the difference.)
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To: ansel12

She posted it on 6 or 7 threads and I can’t find any real source for it either.


33 posted on 12/27/2007 10:33:54 PM PST by Route66 (America's Main Street - - - Fred D. Thompson / Consistent Conservative...The One with Gravitas)
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To: ansel12

Oh, so now Ronald Kessler is a liar. Sheeesh. You guys are fast and loose with calling people liars.


34 posted on 12/27/2007 10:34:30 PM PST by Saundra Duffy (Romney Rocks!!!)
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To: ansel12

When I google it, I get this thread. :-)


35 posted on 12/27/2007 10:36:52 PM PST by Route66 (America's Main Street - - - Fred D. Thompson / Consistent Conservative...The One with Gravitas)
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To: Saundra Duffy
I personally do not trust Musharaff, do you? He had promised safe passage to Bhutto but did not deliver.

What a dufus!
36 posted on 12/27/2007 10:43:15 PM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: Saundra Duffy

A former CIA officer recalls what happened when Bo Derek and seven other members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Committee visited Pakistan in late 2002.

“The other senators, including John Edwards, attended the classified intelligence briefing,” the former officer says. “Bo Derek blew it off and spent a lot of time drinking and eating.”


When he just throws those two sentences into a middle of an article with no context, names, dates, sources, absolutely nothing but those two sentences then I’m calling it a bizarre lie.

If you can find something more fill us in, but until then you need to stop spreading it.


37 posted on 12/27/2007 10:47:45 PM PST by ansel12 (Washington:I cannot tell a lie,Clinton:I cannot tell the truth,Romney:I cannot tell the difference.)
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To: Saundra Duffy

Where’s the reference? What’s the “CIA officer’s” name?

“Drinking and eating,” FWIW, keeps you alive. You do it all the time, Saundra. Perhaps it was the best thing to do under the circumstances.


38 posted on 12/27/2007 10:59:36 PM PST by Theo (Global warming "scientists." Pro-evolution "scientists." They're both wrong.)
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To: ansel12

Saundra wants the disciple of the pseudo-prophet Joseph Smith to become president, no matter what it takes.


39 posted on 12/27/2007 11:10:08 PM PST by Theo (Global warming "scientists." Pro-evolution "scientists." They're both wrong.)
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To: Route66
When I google it, I get this thread.
That's the MO of the drive-by media:

Make up a story. Wait till someone else "reports" on the made-up story. Then "report" on the report as "corroboration".

Works for the DBM. Why can't it work for posters here in FR?

40 posted on 12/28/2007 12:36:46 AM PST by samtheman (Fred Thompson '08)
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