Excuse me, but isn’t the fact President Bush “invaded” Iraq, a great friend of the United States and a fighter of terrorism with a benevolent dictator, the thing all the Democrats and half the Republicans are griping about these days?

Well now. We have Sen. Barack Obama saying he will be prepared to order U.S. troops into that country unilaterally if it failed to act on its own against Islamic extremists.

Pakistan? Out of Iraq and into Pakistan? Not Afghanistan where all the Democratic candidates for president say we should be instead of Iraq?

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama issued a pointed warning yesterday to Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, saying that as president he would be prepared to order U.S. troops into that country unilaterally if it failed to act on its own against Islamic extremists.

In his most comprehensive statement on terrorism, the senator from Illinois said that the Iraq war has left the United States less safe than it was before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and that if elected he would seek to withdraw U.S. troops and shift the country’s military focus to threats in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

“When I am president, we will wage the war that has to be won,” he told an audience at the Woodrow Wilson Center in the District. He added, “The first step must be to get off the wrong battlefield in Iraq and take the fight to the terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan.”

Obama’s warning to Musharraf drew sharp criticism from several of his rivals for the Democratic nomination, but not from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.).

Obama delivered a biting critique of President Bush’s conduct of the war in Iraq and of the administration’s overall strategy for combating terrorism, while seeking to reassure Americans that his long-stated opposition to the Iraq war would not compromise his commitment to defending the country from the threat of Islamic extremists.

As I’ve said before, it’s fun being the clown in the circus until you have to run the circus. Barack Obama is not yet ready for prime time.

Let’s bring our troops home to Pakistan?

One thing Barack Obama needs to remember is Pakistan is a nuclear power. You don’t provoke countries with nuclear capabilities.