FACTBOX-Obama, McCain: Quotes on Afghanistan, Pakistan
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Oct 14 (Reuters) - Candidates Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama have expressed many differences and some agreement in their stated policies towards Afghanistan and Pakistan ahead of the Nov. 4 U.S. presidential election.
Here are some comments from Obama and McCain, and their respective vice presidential nominees, Joe Biden and Sarah Palin, made in televised debates.**
AFGHANISTAN
* OBAMA:
"General McKiernan, the commander in Afghanistan right now, is desperate for more help, because our bases and outposts are now targets for more aggressive Afghan/Taliban offences."
"We're ... going to have to work with the Karzai government, and when I met with President Karzai, I was very clear that, 'You are going to have to do better by your people in order for us to gain the popular support that's necessary'." (Oct. 7)
* MCCAIN:
"We have to double the size of the Afghan army. We have to have a streamlined NATO command structure. We have to do a lot of things. We have to work much more closely with the Pakistanis." Continued...
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