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Noise
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posted 22 September 2006 09:33 AM      Profile for Noise     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Several free news sources have been running with

CNN

quote:
President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan says the United States threatened to bomb his country back to the Stone Age after the 9/11 attacks if he did not help America's war on terror.

Yahoo (through CBC)

BBC

Each are aimed a lil different. The best articles I could find on it are unfortunately behind subscription walls. Bush is pleading ignorance and stupidity as usual.

Musharraf's actions make alot more sense now atleast.

Added in:

quote:
Armitage told CNN on Thursday that he never threatened to bomb Pakistan, wouldn't say such a thing and didn't have the authority to do it. Armitage said he did have a tough message for Pakistan, saying the Muslim nation was either "with us or against us," according to CNN. Armitage said he didn't know how his message was recounted so differently to Musharraf.

Heh, that statement had me laughing. "We didn't threaten to bomb them, we simply stated the you're either with us on the war on terror or you're against us (note that we attack anything against us)". How can that possibly be misconstrued as a threat?

[ 22 September 2006: Message edited by: Noise ]


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morningstar
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posted 22 September 2006 01:47 PM      Profile for morningstar     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
good item, noise

i remember speculation that this was the case. i doubt that pakistan felt that it had any choice given its problems with u.s. friend, india.

weren't there also promises to pakistan of aid or trade if it cooperated? the carrot and stick thing that the u.s. seems to like to use.

except that the carrot goes to so few and it usually is full of those dreadful little wirewoms.


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Cueball
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posted 22 September 2006 01:49 PM      Profile for Cueball   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
*Smiles like a Chesire Cat*

I said this is the way the US induced Pakistan's support for TWAT way back in the begining.

*Ahhh me!*


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Noise
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posted 22 September 2006 02:08 PM      Profile for Noise     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Pakistan had to be threatened. I wonder what our excuse was?
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morningstar
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posted 22 September 2006 02:19 PM      Profile for morningstar     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
they had us over a barrel with softwood, mad cow, and all the other economic knots that we tightened on ourselves with nafta. and after we refused to invade 'eyerack' we were really getting screwed over. so, instead of tightening our belts and beginning the process of changing our economic ties, we rolled over and sent troops to afganistan.

thats the impression i had, anyway. i'm so ashamed of our govt, i'm beginning to feel how our american friends must feel.


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eau
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posted 22 September 2006 02:39 PM      Profile for eau        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Bombing Pakistan back to the Stone Age reminds me that when Bush met with the Taleban at his "ranch" in July 2001 that the same offer was on the menu. A carpet of gold or a carpet of bombs. Funny they never threatened Saudi Arabia at any time with those words. Saudi Arabia, the funder and the enabler.

So the line to countries who disagree now follows a pattern unless those countries have something to be exploited.


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posted 22 September 2006 11:27 PM      Profile for Fidel     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Perv was a friendly dictator of the month in 2005.
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posted 23 September 2006 01:49 AM      Profile for Cueball   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
They are gangsters really.
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