Bush Secret Order To Send Special Forces Into Pakistan

[Phred42]

so....now he's invaded another country - illegally?
Does this mean we are at war with Pakistan now too?

Pelosi is responsible of this and anything else our Village Idiot does between no and January. SHE COULD HAVE PREVENT THIS.

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Bush Secret Order To Send Special Forces Into Pakistan
Fear of escalating regional conflict
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/09/12-0

A secret order issued by George Bush giving US special forces carte blanche to mount counter-terrorist operations inside Pakistani territory raised fears last night that escalating conflict was spreading from Afghanistan to Pakistan and could ignite a region-wide war.

The unprecedented executive order, signed by Bush in July after an intense internal administration debate, comes amid western concern that the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan and its al-Qaida backers based in "safe havens" in western Pakistan's tribal belt is being lost.

Following Bush's decision, US navy Seals commandos, backed by attack helicopters, launched a ground raid into Pakistan last week which the US claimed killed about two dozen insurgents. Pakistani officials condemned the raid as illegal and said most of the dead were civilians. US and Nato commanders are anxious to halt infiltration across the Afghanistan-Pakistan border of insurgents and weapons blamed for casualties among coalition troops. The killing of a US soldier in eastern Afghanistan yesterday brought American losses in 2008 to 112, the deadliest year since the 2001 intervention. The move is regarded as unprecedented in terms of sending troops into a friendly, allied country.

[TwilightGardener]

1. This is actually something we should have done a long time ago, and something

that Obama agrees with. If Pakistan won't eradicate the terrorist havens, then we have to--although would be better to say it's NATO, not just the US.

[Phred42]

2. We've still invaded another country

Maybe should have gotten the UN or NATO in on it first.

This just confirms to the World Community that the US is out of control

[TwilightGardener]

4. Well, NATO commanders should be in on this, but even then, it comes

down to this, if you believe Obama and Biden: if you know that the terrorists who attacked us are just over the border, hiding out, and sending minions over to Afghanistan to kill our soldiers only to slip back over the border again and again--and ALSO planning more terror attacks in the US, wouldn't you do what you could to stop them? We've given buttloads of aid to Pakistan, and they are not using enough of our money to fight extremism, which is what we the taxpayers here are paying for. They are leaving us no choice--OUR safety is at risk.

[mmonk]

3. True. However, we would have been able to do it with permission

had Bhutto not been killed and been able to come to power. Of course, Pakistan and the US created the Taliban forces and government originally, and trained them around the North West Province along with the mujahideen or al queda.

[TwilightGardener]

5. I would hope we've exhausted all channels to secure permission, and

I wouldn't necessarily believe the "protests" from the Pakistani government, because they sort of have to publicly stand up to us to save face--BUT when they say stuff about killing civilians, I have to wonder if they're not in on the game.

[EFerrari]

6. Haven't SF been in Pakistan for months?

Little Bush late with his homework?