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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Neocon who wrote (616038)9/1/2004 4:01:24 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
"We had no basis for invading Pakistan."

I agree!

However, we CERTAINLY had plenty of good reasons to not permit those middle-of-the-night flights (the 'Airlift of Evil') out of Afghanistan, which EVACUATED to safety in Pakistan hundreds or more of ISI spymasters/Taliban sponsors, actual Taliban officials, and only God knows how many al Qaeda people, ahead of the advance of Northern Alliance forces.

We would have had MUCH more leverage with Pakistan if we had 'processed' those people ourselves!

That was perhaps the most crippling mistake we've made since the start of the 'war on terrorism'... even more damaging to us then the Tora Bora campaign --- where far fewer and lower ranking terrorists escaped to safety in Pakistan.
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