Saying one thing…

“We’ve got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we’re not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there.”

Barack Obama
On US troops in Afghanistan
August 14, 2007

…doing another.

Hours after US missiles killed 22 people in Fata, President Barack Obama convened a meeting of his top national security advisers and endorsed the decision to continue drone strikes into Pakistan…

Although US and Pakistani officials insist that the missiles targeted Al Qaeda and Taliban suspects, many civilians were also killed in the attacks, making it harder for the country’s shaky government to win support for its decision to join the US-led war against terror.

Oh wait, I understand. His original complaint wasn’t that we were “air-raiding villages and killing civilians”, it’s that we were “JUST air-raiding villages and killing civilians”. As in, we should be doing other things, as well as continuing the “air-raiding villages and killing civilians”.

My mistake. Probably a lot of people who voted for him thought he meant something different, too.