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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pompsander who wrote (749779)	9/21/2006 3:50:29 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Re: "This is kind of embarassing...don't you think GWB would have gotten the o.k. on this from Pakistan before saying it....or if he had the o.k. but wasn't supposed to talk about it publicly, he would just keep quiet." That's because the Prez didn't really mean it... his remarks were strictly for domestic consumption (and with an eye to the nearness of the elections). He HEDGED his comment until it was pared down into nearly nothing (i.e., we would step on the sacred soil of Pakistan, LOL, ONLY if we had HARD, CREDIBLE, UNREFUTABLE EVIDENCE pointing to EXACTLY WHERE OBL was sitting his butt down.) Odds of that were fairly slight... which possibly explains why he didn't expect Pakistan to raise a stink over his comments.... SURELY he has had opportunity after opportunity to crack down on the Pakistani jihadists who helped to attack us (they created and supported, and still support, the Taliban... gave and still give sanctuary to al Qaeda... wired $100,000 directly to Mohammed Atta on 9-10, the day before the 9-11 attacks, etc., etc.) Bush could have cracked down on Pakistan after 9-11, but he didn't... or he could have cracked down on them for SPREADING NUCLEAR WEAPONS TECHNOLOGY around the world (to North Korea, to Libya, to Iran), but he didn't... or he could have NOT ALLOWED the Airlift of Evil which evacuated Taliban and ISI and al Qaeda top honchos out of Afghanistan on a direct Pakistani military flight, but he didn't. (The WH actually CLEARED the airspace for the evacuation flight to proceed, ordering our air cover to stand aside....) He could have attacked the Taliban and al Qaeda types sheltering just inside the Pakistani border ANYTIME in the several years we have been at war... but he chose not to. And now, he's proposed a big new fighter/bomber military sale to Pakistan... so, I think it's clear that he didn't really expect anyone to believe that his words about 'going after OBL' represented ANY kind of change at all.... He's probably very surprised that they bothered to say anything at all.

To: pompsander who wrote (749779)	9/21/2006 4:10:01 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Have you ever wondered how history would have played out if 'Wrong Way Bush' had attacked Afghanistan/Pakistan... instead of Afghanistan & Iraq? (I doubt that a toppling of the Taliban in Afghanistan, and a cleaning out of Taliban and al Qaeda in the Pak. 'tribal regions' would have provoked defensive response from Pakistan's ally China... ESPECIALLY considering the global political environment immediately after the 9-11 attacks. And, it might have proven very useful, for the purposes of future history, to show that the mere possession of nuclear arms does not totally immunize a country from the need to behave in a civilized manner --- and not forment attacks on bigger, stronger countries. It is also quite possible that the US could have precluded, shut down, either physically or politically, the chance of Pak. trying to resist militarily, or invoke their 'nukes' at all....) True... the Dictator S.H. would still be in control of his deteriorated Iraq... but MUCH fearful of causing any trouble (and at least, still a barrier against Iran's expansionism....) Interesting to consider: South Asia instead of Middle East... a stronger blow against Wh'abbist Sunni extremism INSTEAD of a helping hand for Sh'ia expansionism.....