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Pakistan Parliament Threatens Sanctions against US

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(CNN) -- Pakistan's parliament threatened Saturday to cut off access to a facility used by NATO forces to ferry troops into Afghanistan, signaling a growing rift that began when U.S. commandos killed Osama bin Laden during a raid on a Pakistani compound.

A resolution adopted during a joint session of parliament condemned the U.S. action. It also called for a review of its working agreement with the U.S., demanded an independent investigation and ordered the immediate end of drone attacks along its border region.

Failure to end unilateral U.S. raids and drone attacks will force Pakistan to "to consider taking necessary steps, including withdrawal of (the) transit facility" used by the NATO's International Security Assistance Force, according to the resolution.

U.S. lawmakers have questioned how the world's most wanted terrorist managed to live in plain sight for years in Pakistan -- near the country's elite military academy -- without being detected.
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Pakistan's parliament condemns U.S. raid, threatens sanctions - CNN.com

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Bring it on Pakistan, your ****ing country wouldn't be standing without US financial aid...
 
OMG, this is the end of the world. Pakistan is threatening to stop exporting terrorists to our shores. LOL.
 
Holy crap

that means less cab drivers, convenience store midnight shift clerks and teaching squash pros

we are DOOMED
 
TurtleDude said:
Holy crap

that means less cab drivers, convenience store midnight shift clerks and teaching squash pros

we are DOOMED
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Here is a tasteless joke:

q: How can you tell an Iraqi war veteran?

a: He is the one that can operate a Slurpee machine with one hand.
 
Jetboogieman said:
Pakistan's parliament condemns U.S. raid, threatens sanctions - CNN.com

:lamo :lamo :lamo

Bring it on Pakistan, your ****ing country wouldn't be standing without US financial aid...
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Come on, people. You aren't really going to let Pakistan think they pulling wool over anyone's eyes, are you?

With the popular position being that we should discontinue aid to Pakistan ($2 billion in the 2012 budget), they've hired lobbyists to make sure they keep that funding. And now, they are thumping their chests in the hopes that we'll even increase the funding.

And it would not surprise me if we did just that.
 
How terribly frightening. :coffeepap
 
They know they were caught double dealing. The only way they can try to mitigate that is to blame us for something. The best defense is a good offense, I suppose.

TurtleDude said:
Holy crap

that means less cab drivers, convenience store midnight shift clerks and teaching squash pros

we are DOOMED
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Classy. :roll:
 
MaggieD said:
And it would not surprise me if we did just that.
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It would be the prudent thing to do. Their continued "cooperation"-- sparse as it is-- is an invaluable asset to our continued anti-terror operations in the region.
 
Stop! You're skeerin' me!! :lamo
 
Viktyr Korimir said:
It would be the prudent thing to do. Their continued "cooperation"-- sparse as it is-- is an invaluable asset to our continued anti-terror operations in the region.
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Pumping yet more money into a perpetual failure such as the US war on terror seems to be standard US policy. No, wait! I almost forgot that those endless borrowed billions are 'Protecting Americans'. Isn't that the standard MIC line?
 
croniccynic said:
Pumping yet more money into a perpetual failure such as the US war on terror seems to be standard US policy. No, wait! I almost forgot that those endless borrowed billions are 'Protecting Americans'. Isn't that the standard MIC line?
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Whether we agree with it or not, at this point it doesn't matter. The war on terror has opened a flood gate that our nation itself can't close or resolve. If we pull out now the eventual backlash against the U.S. will be exponential. We have to stay for our own security.
 
Temporal said:
Whether we agree with it or not, at this point it doesn't matter. The war on terror has opened a flood gate that our nation itself can't close or resolve. If we pull out now the eventual backlash against the U.S. will be exponential. We have to stay for our own security.
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I say we give to India half of the foreign aid that Pakistan gets, and threaten to give the other half to Afghanistan to clear out the Taliban....
I expect if Afghanistan put pressure on the Taliban in thier country, the Taliban would move into Pakistan.
Then, once we have them concentrated in one place, tell Pakistan to rid the world of the Taliban or face REAL sanctions.
 
I am skeptical that this may be a cover up over the fact that Pakistan may have known Osama's whereabouts and not told anyone. Regardless, they are acting like spoiled brats and shouldn't be listened to. The fact that they are acting like this seems as if they wanted to protect Osama and are now mad that he is out of this world.
 
Jetboogieman said:
Pakistan's parliament condemns U.S. raid, threatens sanctions - CNN.com

:lamo :lamo :lamo

Bring it on Pakistan, your ****ing country wouldn't be standing without US financial aid...
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Hey ... Pakistan IS a nuclear power, and they have put up with years of drone raids and bombings, we should not be so surprised that, now that OBL has been killed (again, but that's a separate issue), that they want the US to pull out.

I would not be so eager to go to war with Pakistan, unless you WANT a new world war?
 
megaprogman said:
Maybe it will get us out of Afghanistan faster.
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Can you explain HOW a pullout would be accomplished if Pakistan becomes hostile and blocks the route... Go through Iran?
 
Pakistan now has more nukes than anyone except us and Russia. Yet when they get natural disasters they expect the outside world to bail them out. All of this is based on paranoia about India whooping their ass 3x. What we need to do is push for these 2 countries to make peace, and put the Israeli/Palestinians on the back burner.......again.
 
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