WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is willing to send a small number of U.S. combat troops to Pakistan to help fight the insurgency there if Pakistani authorities ask for such help, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday
"We remain ready, willing and able to assist the Pakistanis and to partner with them to provide additional training, to conduct joint operations, should they desire to do so," Gates told a news conference.
Gates said the Pakistani government has not requested any additional assistance in the weeks since al-Qaida and affiliated extremists have intensified their fighting inside Pakistan. And he stressed that the United States would respect the Pakistanis' judgment on the utility of American military assistance.More on the story.
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Musharraf is going down and even the US can't help him. I wonder who will be in control of the Pakistan Nukes? Now what's interesting is how the US is ordering North Korea got get rid of their Nukes and wont allow Iran to have Nukes. Yet the US has no problem with Pakistan having Nukes, US gave Isreal Nukes and other countries are working to build them.
WTF. That is the way to totally destroy Pakistan and turn the nukes over to some crazies. Only the crazies and the military have weapons and the U.S. shouldn't be giving an open invitation to the crazies to start shooting.
No, let the people of Pakistan pick their own next leader whomever that is and try being NICE to that person.
Kitty that would involve good foreign relations and not getting drunk and dancing on your foreign relations visit but actually doing something serious besides a photo op of you doing the countrys native dance.
Yeah, Third.
Maybe the Gerbil needs to go to the same place Amy Winehouse went (now there's an appropriate name). No, I didn't want to see that skank smoke a crack pipe on the evening news, although that was a break in the 24/7 Heath Ledger news.
Blah, I need a vacation from the Heath Ledger news.
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