Thursday, June 12, 2008

U.S. Poops on Pakistan

As part of the new style (and because I'm tired of fighting tech problems all day long and spending 12+ hours on here everyday) I'm going to be more selective in my quotations and cut back on the color-coding.

I'm just tired of sifting through rafts of lies and shit from the MSM press, that's all.

Let's begin, shall we?

First see
: "American citizen's apology for Rogue State USA's air strike that killed 11 Pakistani troopers"

"Bombing strains US-Islamabad ties; Pakistan says attack killed 11 in its forces; Pentagon calls strike justified" by Candace Rondeaux and Ann Scott Tyson, Washington Post | June 12, 2008

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - US-led forces dropped more than a dozen bombs in and near Pakistan's tribal regions yesterday in an attack that dramatically exacerbated tensions along the Afghan border and, according to authorities here, killed 11 members of a Pakistani border-monitoring force....

The clash erupted when US-supported Afghan troops tried to establish a checkpost near Sheikh Baba in the Mohmand tribal region.....

According to the US military, two Air Force F-15E jets and a B-1B Lancer bomber then dropped the bombs, which included precision-guided and unguided munitions and weighed between 500 pounds and 2,000 pounds. The bombs were used "to destroy anticoalition members in the open and in buildings in the vicinity of Asadabad," Afghanistan, according to a statement released by the US military's Combined Air and Space Operations Center for Southwest Asia.

Geoff Morrell, Pentagon press secretary, defended the US strikes as justified because, he said, US troops in Afghanistan were under fire from forces in Pakistan:

"Every indication we have at this point is that the actions that were taken by US forces were . . . legitimate, in that they were in self-defense. Our forces . . . came under fire from forces that had come over from the Pakistani side into Afghan territory, and then retreated into Pakistani territory and continued to fire upon our forces, even though we did not pursue them into Pakistan."

Morrell said he did not know who, if anyone, died in the US strikes:

"We are going to work to find out who was killed in this attack, and we will be doing so with the Pakistani government. This a complex attack involving . . . an air strike and artillery and a number of forces . . . along a border that has traditionally been a problem and is often the cause of some confusion as to who the forces are that are involved."

I've about had it with the lying military and its excuses for mass-murder, how about you, AmeriKa?

This was a MESSAGE sent to Pakistan's military and government: NO TRUCES!!!

Or ELSE!!!!