Happy "Patriot's Day", you idiots!

Now to celebrate, let's invade Pakistan!

WASHINGTON — President Bush secretly approved orders in July that for the first time allow American Special Operations forces to carry out ground assaults inside Pakistan without the prior approval of the Pakistani government, according to senior American officials.

I'm no military nor political expert, but isn't sending troops into a country to do raids and stuff, without the permission of that country's government, generally referred to as an invasion? I mean, say Egyptian or Syrian forces decided to go into Jerusalem or one of the Israeli occupied territories and conduct some raids - both Israel and the US would be pretty pissed off, right? Is that just me who sees that?

American officials say that they will notify Pakistan when they conduct limited ground attacks like the Special Operations raid last Wednesday in a Pakistani village near the Afghanistan border, but that they will not ask for its permission.

Hey, remember a couple years ago when some people hijacked a couple planes and killed whole lot of people? And there was all sorts of wailing and hand-wringing and crying about "why do they hate us?"

Hmm.