ST. LOUIS: The campaigns of rival White House hopefuls Thursday rushed to claim victory after the first and only vice presidential debate between Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Sarah Palin.
Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has said that nuclear Pakistan and Iran are grave threat for world community while Iran with nuclear weapons will be even more dangerous.
Democratic vice president hopeful Joe Biden also agreed on the point that Iran and Pakistan are perilous and termed Pakistan’s nuclear weapons insecure. India and Israel could be targeted by Pakistan’s nuclear weapons, they agreed.
Saran Palin said: “US will certainly launch attacks inside Paksitan over presence of Osama Bin Laden in the nuclear country. We need to send more troops to Afghanistan, adding US will not let Al-Qaede succeed.â€
She said Barack Obama should not hold talks with world’s dictators before its demands are met. She further said, “We will have to assure Jews that there will be no more holocaust with them.†About Palestine issue, she said the only solution of Palestine conflict is to set up two states and added Israel is strong ally of America.
Meanwhile. Biden said terrorism could be eliminated with improved intelligence. According to Biden, Israel should be supported on the issue of Middle East peace talks. He added talks are the way to resolve the issue faced by the world.
Regarding Pakistan, he said strong democracy was the need of government and termed the Al-Qaeda a real threat for people of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The clash over Iraq was the most personal, and pointed, of the 90-minute debate in which Palin repeatedly cast herself as a non-Washington politician, part of a “team of mavericks” that she said was ready to bring change to a country demanding it.
The two running mates debated for 90 minutes on a stage at Washington University, their only encounter of a campaign with little more than one month to go. After intense preparation including two days at McCain’s home in Sedona, Ariz., there was only one obvious stumble, when she twice referred to the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan as “Gen. McClellan.” His name is David McKiernan.
Palin said Obama had voted to raise taxes 94 times an allegation that Biden disputed and then countered. By the same reckoning, he said, McCain voted “477 times to raise taxes.”
