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Posted on 12/28/2007 3:54:05 PM PST by AmericanMade1776
PELLA, Iowa (CNN) -- A senior aide to Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee admitted Friday that the former Arkansas governor had "no foreign policy credentials" after his comments reacting to the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto raised questions.
During an event Friday in Pella, Iowa, Huckabee said the crisis sparked by Bhutto's death should lead to a crackdown on illegal immigrants from Pakistan. The Huckabee official told CNN that when he said that, Huckabee was trying to turn attention away from scrutiny of his foreign policy knowledge.
Huckabee's foreign policy credentials have been under a microscope since the candidate admitted that he was unaware of an intelligence report that Iran had suspended its nuclear weapons program earlier this month.
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This just in “Fred Apologizes to Huckabee for pointing out the Huckster’s middle school grasp of foreign policy.”
Huckabee said 660 Pakistanis entered the country illegally last year. When asked by a reporter the source for that statistic, Huckabee appeared unsure, saying, “Those are numbers that I got today from a briefing, and I believe they are CIA and immigration numbers.” The Huckabee campaign later said the figure came from a March 2006 report by The Denver Post.
But the Border Patrol told CNN on Friday that it apprehended only “a handful” of illegal immigrants from Pakistan in 2007.
from same article
Already posted.
I saw the clip of his news conference. He looked and sounded like a fool. He really embarrassed himself this time.
By 3 minutes..thanks
When I did my search on the title it had not been posted... beat me by three minutes.
Ol’ Huckelberry is clueless. I fear he’d be worse than Jimmy Carter.
Someone should ask him to name a few world leaders.
He’s trying to maintain a consistency with his domestic policy.
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