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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
hold up here. where in the public domain was that information confirmed before this sound bite from feinstein?
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From the OP article:
Philip J. LaVelle, a spokesman for Feinstein, said her comment was based solely on previous news reports that Predators were operated from bases near Islamabad.
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Originally Posted by smooth
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What do you think the difference is between "USED" and "LAUNCHED and CONTROLLED"? The first question that comes to mind is whether "use" is defined by "launching and controlling" drones. What other use is there? The distinction is obviously important to you, but you haven't described how you consider the two concepts to be different from one another.
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One could argue that USED in Pakistan means "flying over", but LAUNCHED and CONTROLLED means "the operator is in the country with the permission of the Government of Pakistan.
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Originally Posted by smooth
Furthermore, what difference does it make to anyone drones are used where they originate from? **snip**
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It's a question of Pakistani Government complicity. Not preventing the overflying if launched elsewhere could be the result of not being ABLE to stop the mighty US Military.
Lending the bases and running the power, water, sewerage, etc for them and all the infrastructure involvement that this implies makes this little more than an outsourced project of the Pakistani Government.