U.S. threatened to bomb Pakistan back to the Stone Age

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http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-pak22.html

WASHINGTON -- 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.

Musharraf says the threat was delivered by Richard Armitage, then the deputy secretary of state, to Musharraf's intelligence director, the Pakistani leader told CBS-TV's 60 Minutes.

''The intelligence director told me that {Armitage} said, 'Be prepared to be bombed. Be prepared to go back to the Stone Age,' '' Musharraf said in the interview to be shown Sunday on the CBS television network.

It was insulting, Musharraf said. ''I think it was a very rude remark,'' he told reporter Steve Kroft.

But, Musharraf said he reacted responsibly. ''One has to think and take actions in the interests of the nation and that is what I did,'' he said.

[hippiechick]

1. Maybe, maybe not ...

Who can believe anything that comes out of any of the Friends-of-George's mouths ?

:shrug:

earlier discussion: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2523368

[moondust]

2. Repos don't have the patience or skill for diplomacy.

If you get in their way or don't cooperate they'd rather just shoot you to get you out of the way. Diplomacy is for sissies.

[underpants]

3. General Curtis E. Lemay

Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.
Curtis E. Lemay

I don't mind being called tough since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors.
Curtis E. Lemay

I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them.
Curtis E. Lemay

I'd like to see a more aggressive attitude on the part of the United States. That doesn't mean launching an immediate preventive war.
Curtis E. Lemay

If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.
Curtis E. Lemay

Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.
Curtis E. Lemay

My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age.
Curtis E. Lemay

Native analysts may look sadly back from the future on that period when we had the atomic bomb and the Russians didn't.
Curtis E. Lemay

Sometime in the future - 25, 50, 75 years hence - what will the situation be like then? By that time the Chinese will have the capability of delivery too.
Curtis E. Lemay

That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.
Curtis E. Lemay

That's the reason some schools of thinking don't rule out a destruction of the Chinese military potential before the situation grows worse than it is today. It's bad enough now.
Curtis E. Lemay

We should bomb Vietnam back into the stone age.
Curtis E. Lemay


http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/curtis_e_lemay.html

[cliss]

4. Why is he saying this now?

Methinks there is more to this story than meets the eye.

Pervez Musharraf has no reason to complain. His submission has paid off EXTREMELY well for him. He got over $4 billion (?) in loans forgiven. The US gave him MiG fighters worth several billion I believe we gave those to him. The US has helped keep that dictator in power.

So what's his problem now?

[KharmaTrain]

5. Looks Like Armitage Is Being Set Up Again

In the run-up to the Iraq invasion, this regime attempted to strong-arm a bunch of our friends for this misadventure. There was the pressure applied to Turkey to allow this regime to open a northern front in Iraq and all the goodies they were willing to give away (and probably did). It'd be interesting to look at all the "deals" worked with "coalition of the willing" and how much corruption and coersion was involved.

Ain't it particular that Mr. Armitage's name is being tatooed on this one...right on the heels of the Plame situation. He's now become a right wing whipping boy and by putting this one on him it will stop him from discussing the Plame situation or even joining Joe Wilson's lawsuit.