"in order for us to send troops to a sovereign nation we must be invited"

[KyndCulture]

OMFG.


Talking about Pakistan....

HELLO NUMBNUTS???!!!!!! earth to chimp... did Iraq invite us?

[raccoon]

1. This is all just a crazy dream I'm having, right? nt

[KyndCulture]

3. harboring terrorists... uh, um..

OMG.

I'm speechless.

He is more dangerous than I thought.

[helderheid]

11. It's a nightmare.

[CJCRANE]

2. Flippety-flop

[ryanus]

6. I just checked with the Ministry of Truth

Turns out there's no flip-flop.

/sarcasm

[AndyA]

4. SOMEONE PLEASE GET THIS MAN SOME HELP!

Bush is terribly mentally disturbed!

He should not be making decisions, nor leading the country.

[KyndCulture]

5. SOMEONE PLEASE GET US SOME HELP!

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. Particularly if that nation is on the verge of an Islamic revolution

has nukes and is run by a pro-west dictator

[spuddonna]

8. That's exactly what I said... Iraq didn't 'invite' us...

Apparently he's waiting for Pakistan to start the game of 'Red Rover' so we can send troops over... :sarcasm:

Perhaps he could spend some time 'clarifying' our position with Pakistan, instead of 'clarifying' the Geneva Conventions. I thought he'd said something in the past about any state that harbors terrorists must be held accountable? :shrug:

[TayTay]

9. Statements made by the Irony-Immune

Honestly, what a friggin idiot.

[VolcanoJen]

10. Let me see if I can wrap my brain around this.

OK. So, on 9/11, 3,000 people were murdered in one goddamned morning in attacks orchestrated by Osama Bin Laden.

The Bush Doctrine follows... "if you're not with us, you're against us." We will attack any nation which harbors terrorists. Bin Laden, dead or alive.

Most terrorism experts feel strongly that Bin Laden is hiding somewhere in Pakistan. But suddenly, in a stunning reversal of "doctrine," we now require an engraved invitation to go there and find him?

I'm getting a headache behind my left eye again...

[CoffeeCat]

12. What happened to, "You're either with us...

...or your against us!" and the rest of the cowboy-on-steroids rhetoric?

I thought we were going after the terrorists where THEY live. I thought
we were taking the battle to them OVER THERE, so we didn't have to fight
them OVER HERE.

Junior had no problem strong-arming countries into the "Coalition of
the Willing" by positioning unwilling countries as terrorist-loving
nations.

Why doesn't Junior use that same brand of vigor and aggression--to
get Osama in Pakistan?

He's not even trying.

I wonder why.

[gully]

13. "invited?" Didn't all sorts of people sign up for the military after 911

to "pursue those responsible?" And, as you said - didn't our Republican controlled Government send those troops into Iraq (a soverign nation) "uninvited" - in spite of the fact that Iraq had nothing to do with 911?

[helderheid]

14. this SHOULD have the freepers up in arms.

[sweetheart]

15. pakipakipakipakipakistan

I am deeply concerned about pakistan, as i believe that pakistan and saudi arabia,
and sudan are a deeper threat than ira<x>. Something stinks in pakistan, the patriarchy,
the bleeding stupidity, the exported violence and destabilizing wars, terrorism and
nuclear postering... and unless the US gets clear about its real strategic enemies,
it is deeply sad that a nation of open culture where intelligence theoritically advises
the actors, that such avoidable stupidity is being allowed to pass before our noses.

[greenbriar]

16. GAWD

what a self-serving arrogant son of a bitch
ugly prick stick of a mother fucker he is

[Skidmore]

17. We must have gotten a perfumed, hand-engraved invitation from

Saddam for Iraq to have gotten such special treatment.

[spanone]

18. They call it the bush* doctrine of pre-emption. We were not invited.

Our leader is insane.

[Hosnon]

19. Actually it's quite easy to do and we did with Afghanistan. If we want to

invade Canada, all Bush has to do is recognize some small pro-U.S.-invasion group as the legitimate government of Canada (which the President has sole authority to do under the Constitution).

Then, that group invites us in and everything's legit.

edit: We technically didn't invade Afghanistan. We recognized the N. Alliance and they invited us in to flush out an illegal government.

[CarlVK]

20. Oh man this is going to set the imperialists into an epileptic fit.

[bobbolink]

21. Rightooo. That worked so well in Hawai'i

sigh...

Suppose the US could ever learn that??

[Donald Ian Rankin]

22. Um,.. sort of, actually.

Certainly, there was considerable popular support in Iraq for the American invasion before it happened - it's current near-universal unpopularity was not then the case.