So when do U.S. troop patrols begin in Waziristan, America?
That's why Obama is sending the forces to Afghanistan.
That way they will be in place when the next phase of the PNAC world domination plan is carried forward.
"Pakistan to look into president’s amnesty; High court finding pivotal to Zardari" by Kim Gamel, Associated Press | December 2, 2009
ISLAMABAD - A suicide bomber killed an anti-Taliban lawmaker in the Swat Valley - the latest in a series of bombings as the army presses offensives in militant strongholds close to the Afghan border....
"Pakistan wary of Afghan strategy; Asked for ‘clarity’ in new US policy" by Pamela Constable and Griff Witte, Washington Post | December 3, 2009
Remember, readers, the Washington Post is the CIA 's newspaper.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan’s government expressed confusion and concern yesterday about President Obama’s new Afghan strategy, which calls for Pakistan to step up its cooperation against terrorism in exchange for a pledge of a long-term partnership “after the guns fall silent.’’
That is strange seeing as they got "assurances from Jones that the United States will increase its military and civilian efforts in Afghanistan, and plans no early withdrawal."
Obama’s long-awaited speech at West Point was broadcast live on television here just after dawn, but the Pakistani Foreign Affairs Ministry waited nearly 12 hours to issue a cautious response that stressed the “need for clarity’’ in the new US policy and sought to “ensure that there would be no adverse fallout on Pakistan.’’
The Pakistani government is fearful that this country could be further destabilized by a reinvigorated military campaign in next-door Afghanistan.
This after my MSM over here has been telling us Pakistan is worried we will leave!
A growing tide of urban bombings and terrorist attacks have killed hundreds of people in Pakistan in the past several months. Just after noon yesterday, the capital was shaken by a suicide bombing at the entrance to National Naval Headquarters in an affluent, highly guarded neighborhood. A teenage boy blew himself up as a guard approached him, and horrified drivers watched from a few feet away while waiting for a traffic light to change. Officials said the blast killed the bomber and two guards.
This could well be true; however, I have stopped believing my MSM -- especially when it comes to "terrorism."
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Operation Enduring Turmoil
It's all tortured Logic, isn't it?
Even though such violence has become commonplace, many Pakistanis would disagree with Obama’s observation that Pakistan and Afghanistan share “a common enemy.’’ Instead, they blame the United States for creating the conflict in Afghanistan and are reluctant to be drawn into it.
“The US is seen as an occupier in Afghanistan, and there’s no way that can be turned around,’’ said Pervez Hoodbhoy, a nuclear physicist and defense analyst. He said that a Taliban victory in Afghanistan would be “terrible for Pakistan,’’ but that the United States has to “clean up the mess before it leaves.’’
Seen because THEY ARE!
A major worry here is that the surge of 30,000 US troops announced by Obama will send thousands of Afghan insurgents fleeing into Pakistan and further disturb volatile areas in both southwestern Baluchistan and the northwestern tribal region where Pakistani troops have been waging war against local Taliban forces for the past six weeks. Although Pakistan has received significant military and economic aid from the United States, many of its citizens and leaders remain suspicious of Washington’s motives in the region, in part because of its strong friendship with India, Pakistan’s larger rival and neighbor. People here were stung by the high-profile state visit of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Washington last week.
Obama made no mention of India in his speech, and he praised the Pakistan army for its campaign against the domestic Taliban. But he also stressed US concerns about the existence of al-Qaeda sanctuaries inside Pakistan, asserting that the United States “must deny al-Qaeda safe havens in Pakistan’’ and that the United States needs Pakistani help to eliminate them.
Pakistani military and intelligence officials have been accused of favoring an unofficial two-track policy in which they pursue violent extremists who oppose the Pakistani state but ignore or even assist those whose target is across the border.
Oh, the SAME THING the U.S. does!!!
Sure keep the wars going when YOU are also the "enemy," huh?
Pakistani officials said yesterday that they are committed to uprooting terrorism and bringing about stability in Afghanistan. They also cautiously welcomed Obama’s “reaffirmation of partnership.’’ But private analysts said the United States needs to be more sensitive to civilian-military tensions, national pride, and other internal challenges to Pakistan’s weak democracy.
How about LEAVING THEM ALONE and letting them WORK THAT OUT THEMSELVES?!!!
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Not likely.
"Some in Senate doubt Pakistan; Distrust of ally in Afghan war aired at hearing" by Anne Flaherty and Pauline Jelinek, Associated Press | December 4, 2009
Only a matter of time until U.S. TROOPS MUST ENTER PAKISTAN.
WASHINGTON - Facing the prospect of more American deaths in Afghanistan as the war escalates, lawmakers lashed out yesterday at neighboring Pakistan as an unreliable ally that could spare the United States its bruising fight with Al Qaeda if it wanted....
I'm sorry for the profane spew, but WHAT ARROGANCE!!!
You mean the Al Qaeda that doesn't even exist, shitheads?
What do you mean there is no Al Qaeda?
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"Al-CIA-Duh," yup!The Pakistanis could stop them if they want to!?
SO COULD CIA!!
Many in Congress have grown skeptical that Islamabad is doing all it can to drive out Al Qaeda forces hiding along its mountainous Afghan border. Those doubts reached a new pitch this week after Obama’s announcement that he will send 30,000 more US troops to Afghanistan by next fall, with the anticipation that they would start coming home in July 2011.
Obama has not said whether or how the troop buildup would accelerate attacks on the terrorist network hiding in Pakistan. The United States has so far relied on drone-launched missile strikes, and those operations are classified.
Related: Obama ‘to expand drone strikes’ in Pakistan
Pakistan Slams US Plans to Expand Drone Strikes
Nobel Peace Prize winner my ass!!!
“It is not clear how an expanded military effort in Afghanistan addresses the problem of Taliban and Al Qaeda safe havens across the border in Pakistan,’’ said Senator Richard Lugar, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Representative Ike Skelton of Missouri, a leading conservative Democrat, said that Obama’s strategy is the nation’s best shot but that Pakistan could end the war if it wanted....
And SO COULD the U.S., asshole!!!
We could COME HOME!!
After all, we are THERE over a DAMNABLE LIE!!!!
Obama, in his speech from West Point:
“The stakes are even higher within a nuclear-armed Pakistan, because we know that Al Qaeda and other extremists seek nuclear weapons, and we have every reason to believe that they would use them.’’
So WHEN is the FALSE FLAG ATTACK, Obama?
Over the HOLIDAY SEASON?
Maybe something like this to be blamed on them?
Let's face it: "Unless he is saved by an orchestrated 9/11-type event, Obama is a one-term president."
And if that happens, then the TYRANNY has FAILED!
Several Democrats have threatened to withhold their support for more money for the war, although lawmakers said it is unlikely that Congress would try to block the deployments.
That's what they call an empty threat!
Instead, members from both parties say they want to find a way to pay for the troop increase that won’t add to the deficit.
Oh, NOW, all of a sudden, they CARE about the DEBT!!
How about ENDING the WARS and COMING HOME!!
That would SAVE a LOT of MONEY and LIVES!!!!!
Related: The Trillion-Dollar Interest Payment
Democrats Want War Tax
Is the MESSAGE worth it, America?
In a press conference yesterday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she did not support a proposal by Representative David Obey, a Wisconsin Democrat, that would have imposed a war tax on most Americans. Pelosi, Democrat of California, said the first step should be an all-hands briefing to Congress by Obama’s top advisers. “We have to handle it with care, listen to what they present, and then members will make their decision,’’ she said.
PFFFFFT! What an EMBARRASSMENT she turned out to be.
Please elect a Republican House in 2010, America.
Dump this criminal speaker!
The results of the billions in US aid to Pakistan have been mixed. While the army has taken on the Pakistani Taliban, it has failed to go after Afghan Taliban leaders who base their operations in the tribal areas in the border region. At the same time, anti-Western sentiment in Pakistan has grown.
Yeah, MISSILE STRIKES tend to do that.
Many Western officials and analysts believe Pakistan is playing both sides - accepting US money to crack down on militants while tolerating the Afghan Taliban in case the radical Islamic movement gains control in Afghanistan once American troops withdraw there....
Like the U.S. has a leg ot stand on with that charge!!!
FLASHBACK:
"The U.S. government was well aware of the Taliban's reactionary program, yet it chose to back their rise to power in the mid-1990s. The creation of the Taliban was "actively encouraged by the ISI and the CIA," according to Selig Harrison, an expert on U.S. relations with Asia. "The United States encouraged Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to support the Taliban, certainly right up to their advance on Kabul," adds respected journalist Ahmed Rashid. When the Taliban took power, State Department spokesperson Glyn Davies said that he saw "nothing objectionable" in the Taliban's plans to impose strict Islamic law, and Senator Hank Brown, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Near East and South Asia, welcomed the new regime: "The good part of what has happened is that one of the factions at last seems capable of developing a new government in Afghanistan." "The Taliban will probably develop like the Saudis. There will be Aramco [the consortium of oil companies that controlled Saudi oil], pipelines, an emir, no parliament and lots of Sharia law. We can live with that," said another U.S. diplomat in 1997."
Oh, that's a real kick to the lower groans, isn't it, ladies?
The TALIBAN was established under U.S. AUSPICES?
We can "LIVE WITH THAT?"
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Yeah, howTF are we LOSING?
And they are sending MORE TROOPS?!!!!
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he initially opposed the idea of a troop increase because he feared it would make the US footprint in Afghanistan too heavy. But he said he was ultimately convinced by General Stanley McChrystal, the top US commander in Afghanistan, that the size of the force was less important than the mission troops would be given.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton today will take the administration’s case for escalating the war to NATO’s top council, where McChrystal will attend a foreign ministers meeting. Clinton said she expects the allies to make new troop contributions in the 5,000 to 7,000 range.
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Meanwhile, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan said yesterday that he is willing to talk with the Taliban chief in a bid to bring peace to the country if the move has the backing of the United States and other international partners.Fitting that is in the afterthought paragraph of the piece.
--more--"And JUST in TIME, huh?!!
"Suicide bomb kills dozens at Pakistan mosque; Attack comes amid Obama plea" by Pamela Constable and Shaiq Hussain, Washington Post | December 5, 2009
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - At least 40 people were killed and scores were injured yesterday when a pair of suicide bombers stormed a crowded mosque in the military district of Rawalpindi, joined by assailants who hurled grenades and sprayed gunfire among the worshipers.
Related: Pakistani Taliban claims responsibility for mosque strike
Officials said two attackers died when they blew themselves up during the most well-attended prayer service of the week, and two others were killed by security forces. Police and soldiers sealed off the area and launched a massive search after the attack, but the remaining assailants remained at large as of early evening....
The multiple attacks against urban military and security facilities in areas once believed virtually impenetrable have sent a strong message of defiance and revenge against Pakistan’s powerful military establishment, which once sponsored Islamic militant groups but now is fighting them aggressively.
Notice how they always have to work the double-dealing in?
Someday you will see "Pakistani government supporting Taliban" as a headline here.
And STRANGE how the place was virtually impenetrable UNTIL Blackwater got there!!!
Witnesses and officials said yesterday’s attack began when a man in the front row of worshipers suddenly stood and blew himself up. Immediately, several other attackers began throwing grenades and shooting from the back of the mosque.... Eyewitnesses said they heard several powerful explosions, followed by heavy intermittent gunfire. They said they saw dozens of people run screaming out of the mosque, which was filled with grenade smoke and covered with blood. The mosque is located near military offices and is often attended by retired military officers.
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Interior Minister Rehman Malik vehemently condemned the attackers.... Police said the attack appeared to be carefully planned and timed to inflict damage on a target that was military and religious. They said the assailants first set off an explosion on the barricaded perimeter of the large fortified army district, and used the breach that resulted to enter the area and then the mosque.
That's what newspapers and government say, huh?
I'll give it all the consideration it is due.
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Did the WaPo miss anything, readers?
"Suicide attackers kill 36 at Pakistan mosque" by Asif Shahzad, Associated Press Writer | December 4, 2009
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan --Militants stormed a mosque near Pakistan's army headquarters, killing at least 36 worshippers, including six military officers, during Friday prayers as they sprayed gunfire and threw grenades before blowing themselves up, officials said....
The rampage in a heavily fortified area in the garrison city of Rawalpindi also brought the war home to the military brass as insurgents persist with brazen attacks despite several army offensives against them in northwestern regions bordering Afghanistan....
Oh, this is REALLY STARTING to STINK!!!!
CUI BONO?
WHO wants the wars EXPANDED?
The dead included a major general, a brigadier, two lieutenant colonels, one major and a retired major as well as three regular soldiers, military spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said. Seventeen children and 10 civilians also were killed. Local station Geo TV reported that the Pakistani Taliban had claimed responsibility. City residents said access to the mosque was mostly restricted to soldiers and their families....
"Now stop and think here for a moment. All revolutions depend on public support. Revolutionaries try to first win the people before they take on the government. So, no revolutionary goes out and murders civilians in cold blood. Did Washington and his men just mow down a marketplace of their fellow colonials for the heck of it? No, they did not. Washington and the Founding Fathers knew that their revolution to build a new country needed the support of those who would live in that country. This is true for every revolution in history. Therefore, these acts of terror being blamed on the insurgency must all be fakes, committed by intelligence agencies working for the governments to be blamed on the insurgents in order to destroy public support for the revolution." -- Wake the Flock Up
The army prevented reporters from the scene, where security forces exchanged fire with the assailants for an hour before the militants blew themselves up or were killed....
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Three helicopters hovered overhead Friday while trucks carrying commando teams and ambulances raced through the cordoned-off area as soldiers with rifles ready kept onlookers and traffic away....
