Strikes on Osama inside Pakistan are off limits, says Mush

If the American rulers are such pvssies as to obey Musharraf in this, then the Americans are on their own and will either fend for themselves or not.

Maybe after 9/11…but honestly, I don’t think the US is in a position to rattle any more sabers these days. You can thank the democratic party for that. Don’t you just love how their patriotic support has strengthened our position in the war on terror?

thelinyguy on April 21, 2007 at 7:48 PM

You mean the Democratic party that has had control for not quite 4 months in the Congress? I get your point, things were going so swimmingly up til then.

(Assuming he hasn’t been taking a dirty nap for a few years.)

If he is still kill-able, he’ll get a Hellfire surprise one of these days.

Musharref may “protest”, but knows which side of History he needs to be on. (His Islamist brothers would have his head on a pike if they could.)

M.O.A.B.

Ooh, gee, Pakistan has a nuke. The U.S. has over 10,000, that doesn’t seem to prevent people from trying to tick us off.

Nobody asked me, but I say we if we get good info, we take the shot and then call up Musharraf: “We had an agreement, right? Right?

I think if we had an address for UBL in Moscow or Peking, we’d whack him… no doubt.

There are no winners in this whole case

Yes, there would be:

- all freedom-loving people
- women
- children
- progress
- life
- conservatives, liberals and independents
- the 21st century
- the world

…but there’s no need to worry much about Osama’s whereabouts.

Didn’t Harry Reid say we Lost and It’s OK?

That means that the “Bad Guys” won’t come after us anymore, because we just “gave up” right?

Wait, don’t the spoils go to the victors?

That means if Harry Reid said we “Lost” the “Global War on Terror”, then the Terrorists can do what ever they want with the American People right?

Who will protect us, Harry Reid? No…… Nancy Pelosi, she met with the enemy…… Dick Durbin, he called our troops Nazi’s, Ted Kennedy, he called President G.W. Bush a liar when the President never lied, and all the time, our Main Stream Media, protected under the Constitution, mislead us, just to elect Democrats………..

When they come to cut your children’s throats, who will you blame, since they took the truth and your ability to protect yourself away………?

Can they directly hit America? no…

Can they give nukes to those who will smugle them into striking distance? YES!

Mushy is a figure head with no power and the sooner we realize this, and take…. precautions… the better.

Even a democrat, unless its like Kucinich, would have to respond if it was leaked that Musharaf and his inner circle shielded OBL from us. That’s if the Dems wanted to stay in office and even the non nutroot members of that party would be up in arms to teach Musharaf a lesson.

It’s possible I’m being far too pessimistic, but that’s not how I read the current political climate of the US. I think a lot of Americans would be perfectly happy to sweep this whole OBL mess under the rug and rid their hands of it for the next 5-10 years. If the democrats had complete political control, they would do so little to confront islamic fascism, and make so many concessions, that they would be able to maintain the status quo long enough to let a segment of society forget all about 9/11. The American people (in aggregate) are not going to allow another war in the next decade, even if its over OBL, even if it’s utterly sensible.

What would actually happen is the democrats would force the administration to have ongoing talks with Musharaf that would drag on for months and accomplish nothing, giving them plenty of time to score political points when it didn’t work. And if the administration went in hard, they would attack it for trying to start another war and completely steal whatever thunder we brought to bare. Basically, everything the US does is wrong if a republican is the one in charge.

Maybe after 9/11…but honestly, I don’t think the US is in a position to rattle any more sabers these days. You can thank the democratic party for that. Don’t you just love how their patriotic support has strengthened our position in the war on terror?

thelinyguy

Even a democrat, unless its like Kucinich, would have to respond if it was leaked that Musharaf and his inner circle shielded OBL from us. That’s if the Dems wanted to stay in office and even the non nutroot members of that party would be up in arms to teach Musharaf a lesson.

I understand Musharraf wanting to uphold the territorial integrity of his country.

See-dubya, what territorial integrity? Signing over control to tribal authorities through treaties is ceeding territorial integrity. If the Paki govt. doesn’t rule there, how can our actions be constrained by the Paki govt.? Unless we simply allow them the rhetorical ground that this is “Pakistani territory” even though the govt. can’t go there. Mush is signing deals with the locals to “give them control”, control they already possess, in exchange for “help against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda” that they don’t give. It’s kabuki theater.

I understand why it’s happening. I understand the pressure Mush is under and the terrible strategic situation we face there. But let’s not pretend that Waziristan is part of Pakistan in the same sense that Texas is part of America. It isn’t. Just because the Paki govt. claims that land doesn’t mean they own it, especially if they can’t govern it. We’re allowing AQ and Taliban to have control there for now because we’re busy on other fronts, not out of deferrence to Paki soveriegnity.

I doubt that even if we would do that that we would admit it.

Musharaf does know that if he actually protected OBL from us, that he’d cease to have a navy or an airforce in 24 hrs and the Indians would LOOOVE that

Maybe after 9/11…but honestly, I don’t think the US is in a position to rattle any more sabers these days. You can thank the democratic party for that. Don’t you just love how their patriotic support has strengthened our position in the war on terror?