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They weren’t bluffing then they said they would fire on American invaders, and Thursday the Pakistani military did just that.  There was a short fire fight between Pakistani and American ground forces after the Pakistanis fired at a U.S. helicopter.

The U.S. claims it was on the Afghan side of the border, but didn’t comment on the obvious issue, which is that American ground troops and aircraft routinely operate inside Pakistan without the consent of the Pakistanis.  Which is a nice way of saying, the U.S. invaded Pakistan, committed an overt act of war against a country that—Americans are told, anyway—is one of our most important allies.

U.S. officials have finally admitted to a raid inside Pakistan that reportedly killed at least 15 civilians.  The official line in Washington is that Pakistan is “cooperating” with the U.S. in its expanded war along the Afghan border.

The Pakistanis are apparently not so fond of doublespeak.  They are calling the invasion, an invasion, and a massacre of civilians, a massacre.  Pakistani troops have been given orders to fire on U.S. soldiers the next time they invade.  If that happens, it will make it harder for the Bush administration to claim it respects the sovereignty of other nations. (What, us, imperialist?) Hope they’ve got plenty of smoke and mirrors in stock.

Three children and three adults were killed by a missile strike in the village of Azam Warsak, apparently launched from an unmanned U.S. aircraft operating inside Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan.  Sources say the school was hit by “missiles,” plural, not by just a single missile, so this clearly wasn’t a case of a single missile going astray from its intended target.  The Bush administration didn’t bother to comment.  If we didn’t have enemies in that village before, presumably we do now.