Pakistan Orders U.S. To Vacate Air Base Being Used To Launch Drone Airstrikes…
(MSNBC) — Facing domestic political pressure, Pakistan’s government escalated the war of words with the United States, with its defense minister repeating calls for the U.S. to stop using a remote air base for drone strikes and to vacate the base.
Relations between the two uneasy allies have been on a downward slide for months, but deteriorated after the May 2 raid by U.S. Navy SEALs in Abbottabad that killed Osama bin Laden.
Bin Laden’s presence in a military town less than a mile from Pakistan’s version of West Point reinforced suspicion in the U.S. that elements of Pakistan’s security establishment may have helped hide him.
Wednesday’s remarks by Defense Minister Ahmed Mukhtar that the U.S. had been asked to vacate Shamsi Air Base, in the remote southwest part of the country, was the latest salvo as the two countries tussle over their interests in an Afghanistan settlement and the Pakistani government seeks to publicly distance itself from Washington.
“We have been talking to them (on the issue) for some time, but after May 2, we told them again,” Mukhtar told Reuters on Thursday. “When they (U.S. forces) will not operate from there (Shamsi base), no drone attacks will be carried out.”
Posted by ZIP on Thursday, June 30, 2011, at 9:45 am | 
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In a sane world, this is a couple of billion we can save in the budget now!!
(China is really starting to play now, and we don’t have the people in national office to deal with that…)
If you are not for US you are against US. Were our leader not trying to destroy US he would drop a battalion there to defend the continued use. There can be no doubt that the Muslim baby tantrum folk(jihadists) will obtain one of Pakistan’s nukes and deploy it. When enough global resolve is mustered in order to enjoin war versus the jihad of Islamic caliphate ideology Pakistan will be among the targets. Rev 6:13 will come.
If Dickhead had any brains he use the last flight outta that base to blow it to fuckin smithereens.
But…
JUST BRING ALL THE SERVICE MEN & WOMEN HOME…….ASAP
LET THEM FIGHT ON THEIRE OWN……………YOU CASN’T TRUST THEM, NEVER COULD………..WE COULD SAVE BILLIONS….THEY DON’T LIKE US ANYWAY…….
I say we take our toys and play next store.
Pakistan another terrorists supporting nation in the terrorists supporting UN which we should evict from our nations soil
We should have a ‘scorched-earth’ policy in place for just such an occasion.
warpig says:
June 30, 2011 at 10:59 am
I say we take our toys and play next store.
Maybe Kabul or India? …double them up?
Nuke ‘em too
Level the base after we’re out. Fuck Pakistan.
A squadron of B52s have a sobering effect. We can level mountain tops if we have the will. It is obvious that the pakistanis are not and never were on our side.
Cut all funding to Pakistan and strengthen the alliance with India.
Bring the best and the brightest home. we will need them here soon enough. No more aid to pakistan. no more immigrants from pakistan legal or otherwise. a letter to pakistan stating that if an a bomb or other weapon of mass destruction goes off on american soil, Islamabad and the rest of the country will be reduced to ashes.
@dahozho
Yes, the people in Bozo’s cabinet cannot handle China, or anything else, it seems, unless it is reaching out to terrorists and third world rabble.
Obama is completely inept, and sending Pant Suit to deal with Muslim hardliners is completely stupid, she’s just irrelevant, no character no respect.
On the other hand, when we vacate Pakistan, given their new romance with China, then they will shelter the terrorists on their side of the border and if we attack them it can escalate.. hmmmm!
Under Obama America has become a broken reed on the foreign front.
Watch the economy of the towns around the airbase collapse when the US leaves.