newsbusters.org - 10/29/2009
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So much for politics ending at the water's edge . . .
Hillary Clinton has gone to Pakistan and bragged of having opposed Pres. Bush during her entire Senate career. Clinton also depicted the difference between Barack Obama and George W. Bush as being "like daylight and dark."
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tnr.com - 10/30/2009
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tnr.com —
This is pretty great. Secretary of State Hillary
Rodham Clinton expressed doubt Thursday over Pakistan's failure to...
locate top al-Qaeda leaders in the eight years since they escaped over the border from Afghanistan, telling a group of Pakistani ...
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Hillary Gets Tough; Will it Work?
abcnews.go.com - 10/29/2009
google.com - 10/29/2009
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google.com —
(AP) 3 hours ago LAHORE, Pakistan U.S. Secretary
of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that Pakistan...
had little choice but to take a more aggressive approach, starting last summer, to combatting Taliban and other extremist forces that ...
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The Associated Press: Clinton, Pakistani students in ...
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Hillary Prays At Shrine of Muslim Saint & Bashes Bush in Pakistan
Gateway Pundit —
... Muslim saint Muhammad Iqbal in Lahore today.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, second right, prays together with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, right, in front of the grave of the Poet Muhammad Iqbal, at the Iqbal Memorial in Lahore, Pakistan, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009. Clinton is on a three-day state visit to Pakistan. (AP)
Hillary also bashed Bush while she was speaking to university students.
The AP reported, via NewsBusters:
As a way of repudiating past U.S. policies toward Pakistan, ...
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