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Originally Posted by scout
Funny someone would bring up the Plume case. It was wrong for her to be outed and the Democrats was right to raise a big stink. That case effectively killed the career of Ms. Plume. If we have to move our drones because the Pakistani government don't want to take the heat from an already unhappy populace some of our troops could actually die as a direct result. But then it's "faux news" so why should it matter .....
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YOU are missing the point. The idea that this will generate any "heat" is silly. Is public and well known that Pakistan has an agreement for certain types of military cooperation with the US. It is public and well known that the US removed the sanctions it had in place against Pakistan in exchange for the use of Pakistani airspace to launch attacks on terrorist camps. It is public and well known that predators were being used inside Pakistan for some time now (
Special drones pursue militias - Los Angeles Times). It is also public and well known that president Bush signed an order giving US special forces permission to launch attacks within Pakistan without asking for Pakistani permission, something that Obama actually publicly supported during the last campaign.
This is not faux new, it is faux outrage.