Obama's position on Pakistan, or rather what he actually said, which was if our intelligence services received actionable intelligence on Osama Bin Laden's whereabouts, he would happily pull the trigger on a 'kill operation' regardless of Pakistan's objections, much to St. John's embarrassment, appears to be official US policy:
In the predawn hours of Jan. 29, a CIA Predator aircraft flew in a slow arc above the Pakistani town of Mir Ali. The drone's operator, relying on information secretly passed to the CIA by local informants, clicked a computer mouse and sent the first of two Hellfire missiles hurtling toward a cluster of mud-brick buildings a few miles from the town center.
The missiles killed Abu Laith al-Libi, a senior al-Qaeda commander and a man who had repeatedly eluded the CIA's dragnet. It was the first successful strike against al-Qaeda's core leadership in two years, and it involved, U.S. officials say, an unusual degree of autonomy by the CIA inside Pakistan.
Obama did not say he would 'invade Pakistan' he said he would carry out something very akin to the above.
Either McCain has some very ill-informed people working for him or he himself is unaware of official US policy, either way, he is dangerous.
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