You think it's bad in Iraq? Well look what's up next in Pakistan!

trumad

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Tue Mar-02-04 10:33 AM
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You think it's bad in Iraq? Well look what's up next in Pakistan!

I got this from Calpundit who got it from Seymour Hersch and I gotta tell you...It looks bleak!

http://www.calpundit.com/archives/003391.html

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ewagner

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Tue Mar-02-04 10:44 AM
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1. If a deal has been made

it's a high-risk enterprise. Musharraf is in a difficult balancing act between the US and the fundamentalist base of the country. It won't take much to tip the country over....and then...there will be consequences.

I'd like to think that my government has accounted for all the risks and made contingency plans but I don't have any faith that Bush and company have thought out these risky policies beyond the next election.

This is dangerous.

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CaptainClark23

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Tue Mar-02-04 10:47 AM
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2. Even graver a fear

is that they HAVE calculated the risks and consequences quite deliberately.

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Beetwasher

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Tue Mar-02-04 10:51 AM
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3. This Is a Fucking Nightmare. This Admin. Is Clinically Insane.

They define psychopath. The ultimate in selfish, base motives.

Paks nukes are more dangerous than one man, but this admin. makes a political calculation and puts politics above our safety.

It's more important for them to get Bin Laden so they can parade him around before the election than it is to stop nuclear proliferation.

There are no words to describe how outraged I am over this.

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trumad

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Tue Mar-02-04 10:53 AM
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4. This is the deal

Bush is desparate to find and capture Bin Laden before November and he will risk the security of this nation and others to do so.... Seymour Hersch lays compelling evidence to that point....

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maggrwaggr

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Tue Mar-02-04 12:13 PM
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7. To say Bushco is a menace to the world is no hyperbole

WE CAN'T WAIT FOR ELECTIONS.

WE NEED HIM OUT NOW.

The inauguration isn't until JANUARY folks!!!!!

How much damage is Bushco gonna do before then?

Especially if he's a lame duck???

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Oilwellian

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Tue Mar-02-04 10:55 AM
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5. Isn't it nice...

how much forewarning the Bush crime family has given Osama before searching in the Hindu Kush area? Do you suppose Osama will stay put and play hide and seek with any troops we may send there? :eyes:

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nostamj

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Tue Mar-02-04 11:07 AM
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6. link to the Hersh New Yorker article

article

does this sound promising?

Now, with Musharraf�s agreement, the Administration has authorized a major spring offensive that will involve the movement of thousands of American troops.

more dead Americans (and civilians) to advance the bush occupation of DC...

nothing good will come from this and the very public capture of bin Laden will only escalate things.

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hang a left

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Tue Mar-02-04 12:18 PM
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8. I have a feeling it is exactly what they want.

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nostamj

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Tue Mar-02-04 01:09 PM
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9. yeah. the 'fear factor' is all they have to run on

when 9/11 is the highlight of your political career...

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robertpaulsen

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Tue Mar-02-04 02:37 PM
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10. Thanks for the link. What a lose/lose situation.

My worry is that just as attacking Iraq allowed Al Qaeda to regroup, attacking Pakistan will divert resources from Iraq, guaranteeing a civil war with U.S. troops caught in the middle. Not to mention the whole nuclear thing.

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_Jumper_

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Tue Mar-02-04 03:13 PM
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11. Gul is a fundie lunatic

He has an agenda of his own. These are the same people that said all hell would break loose when the US bombed Afghanistan...

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