Senator: Consider military action against Pakistan

[steve2470]

http://news.yahoo.com/senator-consider-military-action-against-pakistan-164625239.html

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee said Sunday that the U.S. should consider military action against Pakistan if it continues to support terrorist attacks against American troops in Afghanistan.

"The sovereign nation of Pakistan is engaging in hostile acts against the United States and our ally Afghanistan that must cease, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina told "Fox News Sunday."

He said if experts decided that the U.S. needs to "elevate its response," he was confident there would be strong bipartisan support in Congress for such action.

Graham did not call for military action but said "all options" should be considered. He said assistance to Pakistan should be reconfigured and that the U.S. should no longer designate an amount of aid for Pakistan but have a more "transactional relationship" with the country.

[leftstreet]

1. omg wait til the antiwar Democrats hear about this n/t

[virgogal]

13. I was just lazily scrolling through Latest Posts and saw this. I

actually swore out loud(and I'm here alone).

Is this guy nuts?

[sarge43]

2. Because you just can't have enough war.

Graham, you suit up, hang it over the line, then get back to us.

[RKP5637]

3. Oh, just what we need, yet one more war, why spoil the MIC profits. n/t

[MichiganVote]

4. Yeah sure. Right after Nike stops making clothes there for US citizens to buy.

What a joke.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Senator here is your riffle

There are many like it, but this one is...

Oh wait, I forgot, stodgy old men who go there never fight.

And while purely from international law you are correct...there are MANY options before actual war.

[Douglas Carpenter]

6. sounds like a wonderful idea. What could possibly go wrong?

:crazy:

[DCBob]

7. idiot.. thank goodness we dont have a warmonger like McCain in the WH.

For all its faults Pakistan is an important ally who we do not want to alienate.

[bluestateguy]

8. Yeah, maybe bombing Pakistan can be to Obama what Grenada was to Reagan in 1983

Reagan never looked back in the polls after that.

That was a joke, BTW.

I would NOT favor that.

[lunatica]

9. What does he think drone attacks are? Love letters?

[RKP5637]

10. +1, n/t

[steve2470]

11. +2 nt

[DCBob]

12. surely you realize those are not attacks against Pakistan government.

[lunatica]

14. Then they must be love letters

What would happen if Canada and Mexico sent drones into the US? Do I even need to ask?

[DCBob]

16. if we had terrorists based here threatening Canada and Mexico and we were donig nothing about it.

then they would probably be justified in taking actions on their own.

[FLAprogressive]

15. Gee, how did I know it would be one of the three fascists named Graham, McCain, and Lieberman....

[Yon_Yonson]

17. Suppose they gave a war and nobody came

Fuck these war mongers!

:wtf: