>>>>>>>>These seem to be getting much more common over the last few weeks.
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>>>>>>>>Maybe a departing gift from George to Obama, a nicely mixed up Pakistan.
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>>>>>>>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7702679.stm
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>>>>>>>Airstrikes in Pakistan, raids in Syria....
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>>>>>>>I'm beginning to think seriously that the hidden detention camps Bush built are for his own citizens. What else will he do when the entire country rebels against his actions?
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>>>>>>>Sheesh, this is getting absolutely ridiculous and dangerous and scary. If Obama wasn't a shoe in already (I believe he was some time ago), he definitely is now.
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>>>>>>I had to doublecheck to see this was really a message from you. Do you really have a problem with attacking 'safe havens' in Waziristan (given that Pakistan has neither the will nor the means) and do you really see this as any change in policy ?
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>>>>>>I expect to see a lot more of this in the next 3 months - not to limit Obama's options but to leave him with a more manageable situation.
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>>>>>>As to those who are talking about Bush doing whatever for his own legacy,that seems to be a pretty big misreading of the man and the situation. If that were his primary concern the last 5 years would have been done very differently. Right or wrong, isn't there just a chance a President might be doing what he thinks is best for the country in a given set of circumstances?
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>>>>>I agree. Surgical airstrikes are a good thing, and personally, I think Bush is doing what he thinks is right.
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>>>>Thats surgical as in we wanted to remove your appendix so we disembowelled you just to make sure .
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>>>No, that's surgical as in we are going to kill as many al queida as we can, and there may be some others who get martyred at the same time.
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>>I'm sure you were trying to make a different point but you are saying the same thing Nick said.
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>Sorta, kinda. My point is that war isn't pretty, and when it happens people die.

This Pakistan issue is nothing that a little surpise carpet bombing won't fix.