No Invasion, US Assures Pakistan
Pakistan’s Dawn:
WASHINGTON, July 23: The White House assured Islamabad on Monday that it had no plan to carry out an invasion, but at the same time it said that the United States retained the right to attack ‘actionable targets’ inside Pakistan. “I think there has been this notion afoot, or at least an attempt or an inclination, somehow we’re going to invade Pakistan,” noted White House press secretary Tony Snow.
“We always maintain the option of striking actionable targets, but we also realise that Pakistan is a sovereign government and a very important player in the war on terror,” he added.
Mr Snow was commenting on a statement by the Foreign Office in Islamabad that Pakistan would resist any attack on a target inside its territory.
“Some US authorities are giving certain statements and comments that tribal areas of Pakistan have been turned into safe havens for Al Qaeda militants and the US can go for military strike inside Pakistan,” Foreign Office spokesperson Tasneem Aslam said at a briefing in Islamabad.
“Let us make it clear that any military action inside our borders under an excuse of hunt for Al Qaeda militants will not be acceptable,” she said. “If any such attack is made, it will be a sheer breach of international laws. A stiff resistance will come out against it.”
Her comments apparently irked American journalists. They pressed Mr Snow for a response at a regular White House briefing.
The White House spokesperson, however, refused to indulge in a war of words with Islamabad, preferring instead to quietly reiterate the US position and reminded the journalists that Pakistan is a ‘great ally’ in the war against terror.
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To hell with Paki feelings. If we get a chance to target the leadership of AQ, they’re dead men. The Pakis need to get their own problems together. If Musharaff doesn’t act soon, he may well find himself hanging from a crane courtesy of the MMA.
The whole world needs to be put on notice, that we reserve the right to detain and or kill the people responsible for 9-11.
No matter what country AQ’s leadership takes refuge in, they are target #1. If the Pakis don’t like that, or the UN or the rest of the socialist retards in Europe or elsewhere don’t like it…that’s just too fucking bad.
Give AQ what they want: death.
July 24th, 2007 at 2:07 pmMy sentiment, Dan!
July 24th, 2007 at 2:38 pmI say we just go ahead and invade…..there won’t be any sign of the paki army anyway….they all went home! No one will ever know we were in there.
Pakistan will cooperate if there are targets that we need to take out. Bin Laden and his gang are international outlaws. We have every right to KILL them wherever they are!
July 24th, 2007 at 3:09 pmD.Cooper
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July 24th, 2007 at 3:13 pmWould a swift, quick attack on al-Q in Pakistan really hurt? Maybe if they just dropped a bomb on al-Q or something, that would be okay. I mean I don’t see the Pakistanis doing anything…
July 24th, 2007 at 3:22 pmAt first blush I’m with Dan. But I would hope that, instead of a general strike, we target specific sites for training camps and, perhaps, just perhaps, we snub out OBL. Musharraf is holding onto his government by the slimmest skin of his teeth.
BZ
July 24th, 2007 at 3:29 pminvade? who wants that shit hole land, let’s just bomb them and send in strike teams to kill the survivors and then leave.
July 24th, 2007 at 3:34 pmWe have some really hot old nukes that are fast approaching their usable shelf life…
A nuke is a terrible thing to waste…
July 24th, 2007 at 3:47 pmDon’t invade.. Just bomb it to… “Further back into the stone age..”
July 24th, 2007 at 4:21 pmConfidence in OBL is going down. The threat of radical Islam is troublesome in the mideast. Interesting Pew Research poll:
July 24th, 2007 at 4:46 pmhttp://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?ReportID=248
TexasFred that’s a big 10-4 and a hearty laugh from Tyler. Do we make those mininukes like we used to? I mean the hiroshima and nagasaki bombs must be extremely wimpy compared to our latest arsenal. We could even use some non-radioactive nukes. I mean what kind of blast radius are we talking about? We got satellite intel right? Someone from “Special” Munitions help me out here.
July 24th, 2007 at 5:25 pmalright i gotta weigh in on this one..Im with the rest of you, we need to bomb the shit out of that country if Pakistan wont clean up their own mess. We know damn well they are in the border area, we have wanted these guys for a long time. we need to get in there and find bin laden, shove up a steak down his throat and a hungry dog up his ass.
July 24th, 2007 at 8:16 pmit sickens me that we are not dropping bombs on these assholes right now. What will the pakis do? get mad, maybe, so what everyone else hates us, so join the club moose!!
July 24th, 2007 at 10:07 pmIts not what will the pakis do, its what will the rest of the (weak kneed) world do.The Indians would clap, the chinese will still,export to the US all they can, the EU will have a conniption as usual, all belch and no fire,the brits will come out with another weak kneed “brown summit” and condemn for local consumption,
July 25th, 2007 at 3:00 amBut the worst effect would be the US communists and their sympathisers( the left wing of all parties). The singing would be a joy to behold.They would choke on their spittle and foam.They would attempt to pass state legislation condeming GWB and the ‘FASCIST NEOCONS’ and the rest of up would sigh a sigh of relief knowing that tomorrow the sun will come up, work will be there, school,will be in and all will be good on earth and in the heavens a just god would be smiling and sending a sign of satisfaction, a rainbow, not for the other sex but for the whole of mankind that only want to get on with living insead of dying for a false god.
wow. i feel so sorry for the lot of you. the reason the world is not evolving and moving forward is because of all the people like you. BOMB KILL FIGHT DIE KILL FIGHT DIE! what you are proposing is the pretty much the same thing AQ proposes. They want you all to die, you want them to die. an eye for an eye, tit for tat. so sad that none of you have figured it out yet.
September 18th, 2007 at 10:09 am