Another blunder by the Bush administration?

Question

I asked this question regarding the following headline and I got a violation notice because a whimpy con who didn't like it reported me. So I'm asking it again. (BTW, I know who the coward is).

Pakistani Sets Emergency Rule, Defying the U.S.
By DAVID ROHDE
The move appeared to be an effort by Gen. Pervez Musharraf to reassert his fading power in the face of growing opposition.

"Washington has generously backed the general, sending him more than $10 billion in aid since 2001, mostly for the military. Now the administration finds itself in the bind of having to publicly castigate the man it has described as one of its closest allies in fighting terrorism."

You can read the rest of the story here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/world/asia/04pakistan.html?th&emc=th
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Answer 1

Musharraf took over Pakistan when GW Bush was running for president. Everyone in the country was talking about it, well everyone who follows international news. During the campaign, Bush was asked by a reporter if he could name the new president of Pakistan. Bush couldn't remember his name, but he did remember that there had been a military takeover there. And that was good, Bush said with a big smile, because it will bring stability to the subcontinent.

I don't know where he got this opinion, probably something he overheard from an advisor. But what does it show you that the GOP prefers military dictatorships to democracies, so long as the dictators are friendly to US corporations?

Pakistan is where the -real- terrorists are. It's a haven for Al Quaeda and a nuclear power. Musharraf has made it -less- stable, not -more-. He has never really been secure there and lately is really skating on thin ice. If Pakistani Islamicists took the country over ('Islamofascists' as the Republicans like to call them), we would be almost completely powerless to do anything about it.

Bush knew about this situation from the beginning, but used 9/11 as a justification to invade Iraq, a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 and had no terrorists before the invasion, because that was what he'd wanted to to from the beginning.

Answer 2

In the on going crimes against humanity perpetrated by the US under Bush ,everyone seems to have conveniently forgotten where this entire atrocious fiasco started.

EVERYTHING FROM THIS POINT IS A SIMPLE CONSEQUENCE OF THAT INITIAL MONUMENTAL MISTAKE .

The mistake (such a gentle word for a crime against humanity) was Bush's decision it wage an ILLEGAL war of CHOICE all based upon a pack of filthy abominal LIES that has so far resulted on the slaughter of over 400,000 innocent Iraqi civilians.

If there ever was a real WAR on terrorism that war was being fought in 2003 exactly where is should have and should be fought and that is in AFGHANISTAN ,the home of the Taliban and the Al Qaeda terrorists.

Bush decided to turn a TERRORIST FREE state called IRAQ into a terrorist haven/magnet and in so doing ,justifiably enraged Muslims world wide both moderates and extremists with his dispicable demonization and vilification of Islam which has merely swelled Al Qaeda's membership.

With our collective eyes "off the real ball in Afghanistan", most resourses were (troops and equipment and FOCUS) concentrated in Iraq all the while the real terrorist cancer was and is alive and well and growing bigger and more powerful everyday in Afghanistan and by extension ,Pakistan.

If the war mongering morally bankrupt Bush had not waged his Iraqi filth and all the resourses now deployed there were for the past five years deployed in Afghanistan and eventually Pakistan,the chances are that the Taliban and Al Qaeda would now be a spent destroyed force.

We all know the lesson about telling that FIRST lie and having to keep lying to justify/cover-up the first lie until the entire stinking house of cards just implodes.

This is EXACTLY what is going on now.The first mistake (LIE) was Iraq and all the other mistakes like now Pakistan is the result of that first lie.

Most experts agree that if the US had merely focused all it's efforts in Afghanistan ,the huge Taliban/Al Qaeda problems that Pakistan is now and has been facing would simply NOT exist today as the Taliban and Al Qaeda would by now be well under at least control.

Like the morally crippled US and Americans ALWAYS do ,they are now blaming EVERYBODY ELSE FOR THE BLOODY PROBLEMS THEY THEMSELVES CREATED .Like spoilt ,irresponsable/un-accountable two year brats,the Americans are blaming Pakistan now for the US and the world's problems ALL RESULTING FROM THEIR IRRESPONSIBILITY .

IF THE BLOODY US WITH ALL IT'S MIGHT AND POWER HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO STOP/CONTROL THE TALIBAN AND AL QADAE how the hell can any sane moral person hold Pakistan responsible ???????


To illustrate even further the sheer monumental hypocricy of the US ,Bush is going on and on about the need for DEMOCRACY ,FREEDOM and LIBERTY in Pakistan.

This is coming from the leader of a country that has DESTROYED at least 14 democracies since 1953 and has always fell in love with any RIGHT WING VILE DICTATOR from the crimes against humanity Pinochet to the Shah of Iran to the vile Saudi family in Saudi Arabia to the Butcher of Bagda and dozen more.

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/CIAtimeline.html

http://www.serendipity.li/wot/us_terr_st.htm

http://www.serendipity.li/cia/cia_terr.html

http://home.iprimus.com.au/korob/fdtcards/Cards_Index.html

Just re-read this last URL data and you Americans need to realize what stinking morally crippled war mongers you are and how NO BLOODY DEMOCRACY IS EVER GOING TO EXIST IF IT DOES NOT MEET THE US'S NATIONAL INTEREST NEEDS ( READ MONEY .READ PROFITS READ GREED )

It is amazing that right in the face of a huge historical reality testifing to US atrocities, Americans continue to believe the MYTHS that Americans keep telling themselves about themselves for like the Nazis ,who believed that if one told a lie often enough people will believe it ,Americans too believe what the Nazis did.

Answer 3

the hot Tone. Leaving Clinton administration contributors in place after inauguration. permitting Ted Kennedy to write the education bill. Signing medicare prescriptions bill. no longer protecting republican decide nominee or status up against a minority congress. Spending out of control. Dramatically increasing the size of government with the federalizing airport screeners and coming up the dep.. of place of start protection. permitting democrats to trample him and his cabinet.

Answer 4

One of the problems with U.S. Foreign policy is the financial support of corrupt regimes in the Middle East. Such as our support of Iraq under Saddam. It just leads to the people disliking us. This is a blunder that Bush as well as Clinton, Bush 1, and Reagn have all made. We give a whole lot of $ in aide to people who never even see the $ we give them.

Answer 5

We have to keep Pakistan stable because of their nuclear weapons. We can't allow the terrorists to take over that country. I fear Pakistan more than Iran, because they already have nuclear weapons

Answer 6

Trial run?

Yes, the bush-davidians are getting pretty bad with the bogus abuse reports. YA will soon have to register as a republican PAC.

Answer 7

I think this could have happened under any administration, Democratic, Republican, or any other party. We do not control what other countrys do.

Answer 8

which do you propose as the blunder?

sending aid to Pakistan, or
castigating the current acts of Musharraf?

Answer 9

keep your eyes on pakistan, as pakistan goes, so will the rest of the world.