Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Bush Willing to Violate Pakistan's Sovereignty

In an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday, Bush said he was 'absolutely' willing to violate Pakistan's sovereignty to go after bin Laden and Zawahiri:

BLITZER: If you had good, actionable intelligence in Pakistan where they were, would you give the order to kill them or capture them?

BUSH: Absolutely.

BLITZER: And go into Pakistan?

BUSH: Absolutely.

BLITZER: Even though the Pakistanis say that's their sovereign territory.

BUSH: Absolutely. We would take the action necessary to bring them to justice.

Pakistan's president didn't exactly welcome that idea:

BLITZER: And just a short time ago, the Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was asked about what President Bush just said to me, that he would go into Pakistan's sovereign territory to capture or kill Osama bin Laden or other al Qaeda leaders. Listen to this.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

PRES. PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, PAKISTAN: We wouldn't like to allow that at all. We will do it ourselves. We would like to do it ourselves.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

I wonder how Bush would respond if some other country decided to violate US sovereignty to hunt down someone they wanted to bring to justice. I think we all know the answer to that.

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