Bush says he'd send troops into Pakistan

[deadparrot]

WASHINGTON - President Bush said Wednesday he would order military action inside Pakistan if intelligence indicated that Osama bin Laden or other top terror leaders were hiding there. "Absolutely," Bush said in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer.

With bin Laden still at large five years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and believed to be hiding somewhere along the mountainous border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, Bush disputed any suggestion that Pakistan has not done enough to hunt down terrorist leaders.

Bush meets Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf at the White House on Friday and again next week.

"I view President Musharraf as somebody who would like to bring al-Qaida to justice," Bush said. "There's no question there is a kind of a hostile territory in the remote regions of Pakistan that makes it easier for somebody to hide."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060920/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/bush

[hatrack]

1. Who wouldn't he invade? Pago Pago? The Azores? St. Helena?

And speaking of St. Helena . . .

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

15. The Cayman Islands?

:think:

[krispos42]

31. Georgia. He'd march on Atlanta instead of T'bilisi

And never know the difference...

[RamboLiberal]

2. Bush would send troops inside Pakistan to catch bin Laden

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/20/bush.intv/index.html

President Bush said Wednesday he would order U.S. forces to go after Osama bin Laden inside Pakistan if he received good intelligence on the fugitive al Qaeda leader's location.

"Absolutely," Bush told CNN's Wolf Blitzer in an interview scheduled for air Wednesday afternoon.

Although Pakistan has said it won't allow U.S. troops to operate within its territory, "we would take the action necessary to bring him to justice."

But Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, told reporters Wednesday at the United Nations that his government would oppose any U.S. action in its territory.

"We wouldn't like to allow that at all. We will do it ourselves," he said.

The October Surprise?

[electprogdems]

11. That sure is the feeling i am getting......

Bush pulls out OBL at the last minute...

[arewenotdemo]

13. The Cheerleader CAN'T catch Osama

without forfeiting the hundreds of millions of dollars that the Bin Laden family has waiting for him in escrow.

[gratuitous]

3. I thought Pakistan had to invite us

At least, that's what he said on Friday when the subject of bin Laden came up. We couldn't invade Pakistan without their permission. Now he's back to his preemptive Bush doctrine. Well, I'm sure the glaring inconsistencies, following so close on one another, were seized upon by Blitzer who proceeded to grill Mr. Bush mercilessly, right?

Okay, I'm kidding of course. Wolf simply wiped his chin, muttered "Thank you, Mr. President," and picked up his $20 off the dresser on his way out.

[pinerow]

9. As Gene Lyons says...

Bushs' inner punk is talking...

George W. Bush and the inner punk

http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Editorial/167229/

[aggiesal]

10. Last week King George was answering questions ...

at a press conference, when I think, David Gregory from NBC
News asked him about sending troops to Pakistan to get OBL.
The King replied, "We can't do that, Pakistan is a
sovereign country."
2 questions came to mind when I heard that statement:
1) Since when did a sovereign country become a condition NOT
to invade? (Hello, IRAQ & AFGHANISTAN)
2) How does he know about sovereignty? Several years back he
couldn't answer a simple question about sovereignty.

He's such a

L       OO     SSS   EEEEEE  RRRR   !!
L      O  O   S   S  E       R   R  !!
L     O    O   S     EEE     R   R  !!
L     O    O     S   E       RRRR   !!
L      O  O   S   S  E       R  R
LLLLLL  OO     SSS   EEEEEE  R   R  !!

[mike_c]

4. world war, anyone...?

Bush is insane.

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. Another lie.

[lumpy]

6. With what will Dubya bribe Musharraf ?

This should be interesting.

[saigon68]

30. A line of coke or 2 for starters?

[CJCRANE]

7. Um,

bin Laden skipped over the border five years ago...

[Singular73]

8. This needs to go into movie format.

Scene 1:

CIA agent in Pakistan calls Bush. "We've got him in our sights!"

Bush hangs up on him.

Oh wait! We aren't Republicans, nevermind.

[still_one]

12. There is no Democrat or republican who wouldn't send in troops

or launch an attack against a location if we knew exactly where bin laden was

Clinton did it with Afganistan, and it would be the right thing to do, to KILL THAT POS bin laden

[fujiyama]

20. You sure?

The administration had a pretty damn good chance at Tora Bora and decided to blow it.

Republicans are not even the least bit serious about catching Osama or going after extremist Islamic terrorists. Their insistance that Iraq is part of the "war on terror" is good enough indication of that.

[Boo Boo]

28. Actually, there is a Republican that didn't send in troops when he

knew where bin Laden was: George W. Bush. We knew Osama was trapped at Tora Bora, a request for troops was made by the CIA agent responsible for getting bin Laden, and the request was denied. We asked Afghani militia to do it instead, and they went up there and invited bin Laden to leave.

[IndianaGreen]

14. And from where is Bush going to get those troops?

Our military is spread out so thin that if Bush pulls them out from anywhere to go into Pakistan, which won't be a picnic, he would leave an opening for someone else.

[Pastiche423]

16. Ain't gonna happen

because Osama is dead.

[TheWatcher]

17. Prepping The October Surprise.

[bemildred]

18. How many would go? If he gave the order? nt

[Aviation Pro]

19. Oh, I see, Little Monkey....

...so the guy you had no interest in catching at Tora Bora is now target number one. Do you really think the American people are buying your election-year bullshit this time around, little coked up, alcoholic, brain dead asshole?

November is on its way, Little Monkey, and January, with John Conyers wielding subpoena power, is right behind it. Count your days, Little Monkey, count your days.

[Odin2005]

21. So Chimpy wants to trigger a civil war in Pakistan?

I don't want Islamists with nukes... :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

[judaspriestess]

22. he'd send troops to the flippin zoo

if he could. He is such an idiot.

[Kelvin Mace]

23. Let me get this straight

You would invade a country where Muslim extremists control the military, a military that INCLUDES atomic weapons?

George, do you actually USE any of that grey matter in your skull, or is it just cranial insulation?

[samsingh]

24. aren't most of them bogged down in iraq?

[Hawkowl]

25. Real Possibility

This could be the October surprise. Not actually getting bin Laden but putting troops in Pakistan to "pursue" him.

Musharaff has already made his peace with bin Laden and his supporters in Pakistan's government by promising to "live and let live". If the U.S. puts troops inside his borders, he just throws up his hands and does nothing. NOTHING. He lets the radical Islamists in Pakistan attack U.S. troops, he lets the U.S. attack those pesky terrorists in NE Pakistan that have been making him miserable and he issues a strongly worded protest about sovereignty, territorial rights, etc. etc.

Pakistan's military depends upon U.S. made hardware, they can't bite the hand that feeds them.

Whatever the outcome, for the elections we will hear: "we're fighting them over there instead of over here", "OBL Dead or Alive", "Bush is strong on terror" blah, blah, blah, with a massive turn out of the rethuglican base.

[oblivious]

26. And if turns out the intel was wrong after 100K dead? Whoops!

[radfringe]

27. here's the flop-flip from his lip

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/09/20060915-2.html
Press Conference, Rose Garden
September 15, 2006

Q Thank you, Mr. President. Earlier this week, you told a group of journalists that you thought the idea of sending special forces to Pakistan to hunt down bin Laden was a strategy that would not work.

THE PRESIDENT: Yes.

Q Now, recently you've also --

THE PRESIDENT: Because, first of all, Pakistan is a sovereign nation.

Q Well, recently you've also described bin Laden as a sort of modern day Hitler or Mussolini. And I'm wondering why, if you can explain why you think it's a bad idea to send more resources to hunt down bin Laden, wherever he is?

THE PRESIDENT: We are, Richard. Thank you. Thanks for asking the question. They were asking me about somebody's report, well, special forces here -- Pakistan -- if he is in Pakistan, as this person thought he might be, who is asking the question -- Pakistan is a sovereign nation. In order for us to send thousands of troops into a sovereign nation, we've got to be invited by the government of Pakistan.

[ima_sinnic]

29. s**t-head liar will not touch Pakistan--remember 28 deleted pages

in report to 9/11 commission--I used to think they had something to do with his buddies in Saudi Arabia but a recent DU discussion (sorry, I would never be able to find it now) made me see they were probably about Pakistan (and also showed me I am woefully ignorant about this area of 9/11 links/ties).

Is there ONE journalist out there who will call him on his "but Pakistan is a sovereign nation" BULLSHIT??!! Why the FUCK doesn't somebody ask him why that didn't stop him from invading Iraq?? That excuse is so sorry-ass and transparent I can't believe someone hasn't thrown up in his face. DOH!! hello, we are total fucking morans who will believe ANYthing this dumbass says, no matter how inconsistent, transparently false, or patently absurd.