[NormsRevenge]

Air Force Capt. Bethany Slack, a Predator pilot, operates an aircraft from a control center at Balad Air Base, 50 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq Thursday, June 21, 2007. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo)

[NormsRevenge]

In this image released by the Department of Defense, An MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle from the 42nd Attack Squadron taxis into Creech Air Force Base, Nev., March 13, 2007. The Reaper's first combat deployment is expected in Afghanistan, and senior Air Force officers estimate it will land in Iraq sometime between this fall and next spring. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Senior Airman Larry E. Reid Jr.)

[SevenMinusOne]

Reapers along with nightly JSOC boots is what the Pak border regions needs -

[misterrob]

Don't Fear The Reaper....

[Senator Goldwater]

Why are we sitting back and outsourcing this critical part of the war to a half-hearted Muslim ally, while biting our nails back home, waiting to be attacked again?

If al-Qaida central in Pakistan is planning a spectacular attack inside the U.S., what better way to — unilaterally and preemptively — disrupt it than to take out its training camps and brain trust?

Now the Pentagon has a more lethal unmanned aerial vehicle at its disposal, one it’s planning to deploy to Iraq. Unlike the “Predator” drone, the new “Reaper” can fire both Hellfire missiles and drop 500-pound bombs — enough to take out al-Qaida camps in tribal Pakistan.

We agree with analyst Bill Kristol that we should attack the Islamic Emirate of Waziristan now without reading Musharraf into the intelligence plans for the operation. That would provide him plausible deniability when confronted by the Islamic fanatics ahead of his next election.

If al-Qaida in Pakistan is sending suicide squads here, we should not hesitate to send “Reapers” there.

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Waziristan is the next front in the War on Terror, and it has been since Tora Tora.

Anything we tell Musharraf about our plans makes it way into the ISI and trickles down to those animals in the tribal regions.

Turn it into Lake Bush.