BF2S Forums The Pentagon defends the killing of the Pakistani soldiers

(T)eflon(S)hadow wrote:

Serge, not offended at all. Yes the DoD is HQ'ed there, so is the SoD, I don't know anything about him depending from the Prez, who is GWB, though... See you are not being logical here. Srs. You posted a question in the OP.

Go read it again. You must have forgot the topic. This isn't an Administration or GWB call. It's the Commander in charge of the operation, not the Commander in Chief.

BTW it was never fucking Bill Clinton's country....

Bill Clinton's aka Bill Clinton's administration.

JahManRed wrote:

CaptainSpaulding71 wrote:

did you ever think the pakistani forces were actually taliban sympathizers?  Perhaps they were shooting at the coalition forces.  it wouldn't suprise me one bit.  we hear stories from Iraq all the time of infiltrations from Al Qaeda and other thug groups in the iraqi forces who kill US soldiers.

If they are Taliban sympathizers then perhaps the USA should stop sending them $80million a month in military funding then.

Money well spent?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/fe … kistan.usa

Exactly...  We shouldn't be funding Pakistan, we should simply disarm their nuclear program, because the instability of their country makes their nuclear weapons too much of a liability for the rest of the world.

First, the US and Afghan soldiers were completely within their rights to engage the Taliban even after they ran back across the border. The ROE allow Coalition forces to chase insurgents over the border if they are actively engaged...which they were. So there was no violation there, as the Pakis agreed to that as part of the overall SOFA.

Second, it's entirely appropriate that the US should say those 11 deaths were regrettable, but based on the only evidence provided (the UAV video), there is no reason to believe that those Pakis were engaged by either ground or air forces from the Coalition. Yes, they are dead and that is sad, but there are simply too many unanswered questions to say how they died, much less that the US aircraft had a hand in it.

M.O.A.B wrote:

Bertster7 wrote:

Lotta_Drool wrote:

Bert-

The Pakis fired on Americans in " A foreign territory " without clearing it.  Thus the Americans returned fire. 

You're such a troll with your antiAmerican B.S.  Why do you envy the US so much that you hate it?  England must be a real let down for you to act this way.

The Taliban fired on the Americans. Not the Pakistani paramilitary troops in the area who were killed by a blast from one of the dozen or so 500lb bombs dropped on the area.

Dozen? There's only three that went off

No.

BBC wrote:

The video showed "anti-Afghan militants" moving to positions it said were inside Pakistan and the impact of a bomb which the voiceover said killed two of them.

The survivors then fled into a cave, the video voiceover said, where three more bombs were dropped nearly three hours after the clash started. The voiceover said all the militants were killed and that about 12 bombs were dropped in all.

New York Times wrote:

After coalition forces returned fire, driving the insurgents back into Pakistan, two United States Air Force F-15E fighter-bombers and one B-1 bomber dropped about a dozen bombs — mostly 500-pound munitions — on the attackers. An Air Force statement said the militants were struck “in the open and in buildings in the vicinity of Asadabad.”

There were 12.

rammunition wrote:

Typical from america, to defend acts of murder against others but cries wolf when it happens to them, Pakistan said it has a right to defend itself, let that be a warning to the beasts in the white house

http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?pi … 8#p2032818

Did you even read the OP, or did you just come hear to stroke your anti-US ego?

Go eat yourself. For all of us.