Hold all countries that harbor these terrorist thugs accountable and kill all those leaders who assist them in any way, including that two-faced Pakistani President.
What's it they say? Even a dumb, blind squirrel.....
What did people expect....that Pakistan didnt have advisors in Afghanistan? That we wouldnt open up a window for them to get their people out?
So they brought some with them...I am bothered by it but indeed if they brought Al Quieda or Taliban with them then I am fully pursuaded that we can exterminate them in due time.
We live in an imperfect world people...this is what happens.
It is the people who can keep their heads about them and not start throwing scorn around or attempting to shed a media light on what they dont comprehend, who overcome.
Liberals get over it.
Eitherway....I "choose" to believe Rumsfeld. :o)
Huh? The Dems are gonna have a field day with this!
Hold all countries that harbor these terrorist thugs accountable and kill all those leaders who assist them in any way, including that two-faced Pakistani President.
Wait a second there, pal. Hit the ol' rewind button about three months. Who was the only Islamic leader in the region who agreed to let us use his nation as a launchpad? And don't say "King Fahd." Musharaff walked a tightrope to appease us and not get shot by his own people. And he probably will end up assassinated for his troubles. If anyone needs an American shell in his head, it's the Saudi monarch, and the whole ruling family, for claiming to be our allies, when in fact, they were our enemies. In contrast, Musharaff had never claimed to be America's ally.
We pretty much mangled every airstrip in the country to the point that nothing as big as a cargo plane was going to be able to use it for much of anything more than a parking ramp. Just think of how long it took us to repair the airports at Bagram and Kandahar. Or even that little airstrip at Camp Rhino for a really good example since it wasn't even a major airport, yet we still had to go and repair it before we could use it well.
So I would have a whole lot of doubts about any story that claims that large aircraft were landing and taking off anywhere in Afghanistan in November, no matter what the source was. They'd have to have the video and it would have to have really well known landmarks in it, and even then I'd be tempted to pull an Oliver Stone on it and think it had been somehow doctored.
Another aspect of these stories that has me doubting them is that when they were first being reported, they couldn't make up their minds whether they were being flown out using cargo planes or helicopters. They kept flipping back and forth, depending on what made the story work better at the time. Or at least that's what it looked like to me.
Oh well, those are my thoughts anyway.
I remember reading about this when it happened back in November. Some of my Afghan friends were pissed off about this and I couldn't come up with any good reason why the U.S. Government allowed this to happen right under the nose of our military who were there watching it happen. The only thing I could think of was that there were some connections with higher ups in the Pakistani government who were in this group and Bush used it as leverage to get the Pakistani government fully on board with the U.S. (and some sort of unknown agreement was made, perhaps a stronger than usual commitment from the Paks to work with us in an unknown way).