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2008-05-29 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Fred 2008-05-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1 Who knew Russ was such a hawk?

Posted by DK70 the scantily clad 2008-05-29 00:24|| 2008-05-29 00:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Informally speaking, a local Guam reservist IHOO personally believes there will prob be one more major US milfors deployment to the ME + possib a new "surge" before the November 2008 elex, and that regardless of whom becomes POTUS in Jan 2009 there may not be any new deployment or surge for at least six months into 2009??? ALSO BELIEVES ISRAEL WILL BE ALL BUT FORMALLY DEFEATED AFTER 2010 IFF IRAN + TERRORISTS GET NUKES AS DOES NOT BELIEVE ISRAEL CAN SURVIVE EVENA LIMITED/SMALL NUCLEAR-WMD STRIKE- JUST A MATTER OF TIME FOR ISRAEL'S ENEMIES???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-05-29 00:37|| 2008-05-29 00:37|| Front Page Top

#3 I thought this was going to be an article about Mexico.

Posted by AzCat 2008-05-29 02:24|| 2008-05-29 02:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Darn, mee too.

Posted by twobyfour 2008-05-29 02:49|| 2008-05-29 02:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Darn, me three.

Is Feingold up for re-election? He suddenly went all hawkish and sensible.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-05-29 07:15|| 2008-05-29 07:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Nop0e. He's Obama lite, looking for a pretext to invade Pakistan.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-05-29 07:18|| 2008-05-29 07:18|| Front Page Top

#7 obama lite, or is Obama Feingold-lite? IIUC Feingold has really been in the trenchs fighting for all the liberal-lefty positions, that Obama picked up for the nomination campaign.

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-05-29 09:24|| 2008-05-29 09:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Feingold said there was no harm in engaging with tribal elders, but re-asserted: I oppose agreements with the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

Feingold is a politically ambitious poseur of the worst sort. He maintains his relevance through a constant series of well-timed choreographs. One has to look no further then his phony introduction of legislation to cut-off funding for the Iraq war. Even the leadership of his own party acknowledged it had less then zero chance of passage. But the opportunistic headlines certainly made him a darling with the ignorant anti-war crowd. Here, like a trial lawyer, he regurgitates standing policy and delivers it as if it was original thought. Any politician that visits a war theater deserves a certain amount of accolades but you can be sure that he had one eye on padding his resume. A cabinet position in the Obama Administration probably looks pretty sweet to Ole Russ right about now.

Posted by DepotGuy 2008-05-29 09:55|| 2008-05-29 09:55|| Front Page Top

#9 If the Pakis can't control the NWFP, then it's not really part of Pakistan, and obviously they can't stop us from whacking "cross-border" raiders and their sanctuaries.

Their complaints of "sovereignty violations" mean absolutely nothing where they HAVE no sovereignty, and can be safely ignored.

Lock and load, boys.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2008-05-29 11:47|| 2008-05-29 11:47|| Front Page Top

#10 I was hoping this was about mexico.

Posted by Broadhead6 2008-05-29 12:07|| 2008-05-29 12:07|| Front Page Top

#11 BH6 me and you both on the same frequency.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-05-29 14:27|| 2008-05-29 14:27|| Front Page Top

#12 OS - imho - we need to bring back some form of the JTF-6 back to the border. Increase the Army, Corps, or Nati Guard units and rotate line battalions on a permanent basis down to border areas to reinf the wall that should've been built. Have the lads back up the Border Ptrl guys. Task a sqdrn of UAVs, etc to run interdiction/counter flights. Give them a whole compliment of rolling stock to include IFAVs and other recon-fun vehicles.

What you said about shape charging the GOP from inside - I agree with. The fact that so many politicos on our side of the house don't give a rat's arse about nat'l sovereignty tells me that the party of nat'l defense isn't necessarily so. One of the first mandates of the U.S. Mil from the Cont Congress was to secure the borders & our sovereignty. This is one of the biggest complaints I have about Mcpain and his pandering to the so called hispanic vote.

Posted by Broadhead6 2008-05-29 15:18|| 2008-05-29 15:18|| Front Page Top

#13 the big clue telling me this wasn't about our southern border was;
US won't tolerate

I agree the pandering to the Hispanic vote is killing us. I wonder how many illegals will end up voting in our elections this year, without proper identification being required.

Posted by Jan 2008-05-29 16:07|| 2008-05-29 16:07|| Front Page Top

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