Bush endorses Obama's Pakistan strategy

[notverycrucial]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/washington/11policy.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

WASHINGTON — President Bush secretly approved orders in July that for the first time allow American Special Operations forces to carry out ground assaults inside Pakistan without the prior approval of the Pakistani government, according to senior American officials.

The classified orders signal a watershed for the Bush administration after nearly seven years of trying to work with Pakistan to combat the Taliban and Al Qaeda, and after months of high-level stalemate about how to challenge the militants’ increasingly secure base in Pakistan’s tribal areas.

American officials say that they will notify Pakistan when they conduct limited ground attacks like the Special Operations raid last Wednesday in a Pakistani village near the Afghanistan border, but that they will not ask for its permission.

Pakistan’s top army officer said Wednesday that his forces would not tolerate American incursions like the one that took place last week and that the army would defend the country’s sovereignty “at all costs.”

 

[dickens821]

well that's how we know its crap

 

[MontereyVol]

shhhhhh... your going to tie Obama to Bush!

 

[jwells]

How are special operations a new thing?

I can't say that we should run a screen pass, and then if Clawson calls it say "Clawson endorses Jwells' football strategy"

 

[KB5252]

I think Bush's reluctance to go in to Pakistan went out the window when he no longer had an ally as president there. This is more a result of him stepping down than it is anything. Now that he is no longer in control we have no cooperation (if we ever did).

 

[joevol320]

I think Bush's reluctance to go in to Pakistan went out the window when he no longer had an ally as president there. This is more a result of him stepping down than it is anything. Now that he is no longer in control we have no cooperation (if we ever did).

yeah, since the president resigned, he's basically saying screw'em lets go into pakistan anyways. it's really speculation if they're really going. it's sad that the Times reports this stuff, i wish their building would burn to the ground. they trully are traitors.

 

[BigPapaVol]

yeah, since the president resigned, he's basically saying screw'em lets go into pakistan anyways. it's really speculation if they're really going. it's sad that the Times reports this stuff, i wish their building would burn to the ground. they trully are traitors.

while comments of this nature are just sad, their building is, in a figurative sense, burning to the ground around them.

 

[joevol320]

while comments of this nature are just sad, their building is, in a figurative sense, burning to the ground around them.

i know i shouldn't wish it or say it.

I think these guys would print troop positions and battle plans just because they are against Bush. they would do it to any conservative/republican who is president. it's just pathetic the length these traitors will go.

 

[OWB]

i wish their building would burn to the ground. they trully are traitors.

Nice choice of words here on September 11th...:good!: