What Did Pakistan Know?

 
 Contributor: Scott Allswang

Here's a little reminder of what has become known as the "Bush Doctrine."  The following is taken from Wikipedia.

 

"The Bush Doctrine is a phrase used to describe various related foreign policy principles of former United States president George W. Bush. The phrase was first used by Charles Krauthammer in June 2001 to describe the Bush Administration's unilateral withdrawals from the ABM treaty and the Kyoto Protocol. The phrase initially described the policy that the United States had the right to secure itself against countries that harbor or give aid to terrorist groups, which was used to justify the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan"  (emphasis mine)

 

"In his book "Decision Points" (Crown Publishers, 2010), President Bush articulates his discrete concept of the Bush Doctrine. According to the President, his doctrine consisted of four "prongs," three of them practical, and one idealistic. They are the following: (In his words)

  1. "Make no distinction between terrorists and the nations that harbor them--and hold both to account."  

  2. "Take the fight to the enemy overseas before they can attack us again here at home."

  3. "Confront threats before they fully materialize."

  4. "Advance liberty and hope as an alternative to the enemy's ideology of repression and fear."

Dear Friend:

Did Pakistani officials know that Osama bin Laden was hiding out in their country? Were his whereabouts kept hidden from the U.S.? Since Pakistan receives billions in foreign aid from the United States, it is essential that our government determine the answers to these questions.

Please join us in signing the following petition calling on Congress to thoroughly investigate this matter. This is an urgent national security issue. Let’s get to the bottom of this and make sure we are not funding a nation that would hide from us a terrorist so evil he has been “Public Enemy Number One” for years.

Following is the petition:

Osama bin Laden Hiding Out in Pakistan:
What Did Pakistan Officials Know
and When Did They Know It?

To Members of the 112th United States Congress


We the undersigned join with the millions of Americans who are today asking, “How is it possible Osama bin Laden could have lived for five years in a million dollar compound in Pakistan without Pakistani officials knowing it?”

We are deeply disturbed by the revelations that terrorist enemy number one, Osama bin Laden, was discovered living peacefully less than one mile from an elite Pakistani military academy.

We are asking, “Were Pakistani officials negligent? Did some Pakistani officials know bin Laden was there and withhold this vital information from the U.S.?”

We join with Members of Congress who have raised similar questions, and are asking “Should we continue sending billions of dollars in foreign aid to Pakistan?”

In a time of fiscal crisis in America, we do not believe our nation can continue to give away billions of dollars a year in foreign aid to countries who demonstrate by their actions that they cannot be trusted to assist us in the war against Islamic terrorism.

Therefore, we call upon the Congress, through its pertinent committees, to investigate how bin Laden could have lived for so long under the noses of Pakistani officials, and to initiate appropriate sanctions such as cutting, suspending or ending foreign aid to Pakistan if it is determined Pakistan did not act as an ally in America’s ten year search for Osama bin Laden.

 

 
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