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I think the US already has been sending in special ops missions inside Pakistan, that's what the rumor is anyway. So if uniformed military personnel want to cross the border armed to the teeth looking for "al qaida" targets that they don't trust the pak army itself to terminate then that is pretty much a declaration of war.
The only way it would not be an invasion as well as an act of war was if someone with the legal authority to do so invited NATO in. Mushy had that authority and he appeared to be wishy washy about it in the press but towards the end he distanced himself from it entirely by saying he will not allow US troops on Pakistan soil. Benazir would have had that authority had the entire US backed process to get her in the saddle succeeded, but she ended up with a bullet in her skull.
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