CNN interview with a senior intelligence chief of Pakistan.

[Joe Chi Minh]

Source: CNN TV

Hilarious interview of a Pakistani intelligence chief on CNN just now. The newscaster began by advising the viewers in advance that some of the claims made by the interviewee were preposterous.

My wife said the intelligence chief said the US Administration had obviously been involved in 9/11. Anyway, I heard him then say that it looked very much as if the current Administration were trying to stymie Obama's prospects of stabilising the country by increasing military adventures abroad, in particular - I believe, I'm pretty sure he said, by fomenting a war in Pakistan - but I'm a bit deaf these days.

Afghanistan was certainly a folly he cited. He said the Taliban had never ever been found guilty of terrorism anywhere in the world. Of course, the US say that they're terrorists for trying to liberate their own country. But with all the internal problems needing to be financed that the US was facing, how could it afford these bourgeoning military adventures - rather than withdrawing from them.

No link yet.

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I think the CIA ensured their Al Quaida "Register" were "globalised."

Incidentally, I was also puzzled by Gates' fear that a prompt and purposeful withdrawal from its theatres would prejudice the credibility of the US. Everyone knows the US could bomb most countries to the stone-age, and that with the necessary political will, it could tyrranise Iraq and Afghanistan very more effectively, albeit at a terrible cost to US trops as well.

So, in that sense, it seems unlikely the US would lose any credibility. It has already forfeited its moral credibility, and the sole prospect of regaining it would be Obama's renunciation of the imperial oleaginous ambitions of the US in Iraq. I believe the Afghanistan war is about a pipeline too, but apparently the clandestine services depend on drug-trafficking for major funding, so that may also be a factor.

[MidwestTransplant]

1. Former ISI chief.

[EFerrari]

2. I hope someone puts it up on youtube. Must be good teevee. n/t

[Tangerine LaBamba]

3. What credibility?

We have no business being in Afghanistan, and if we don't take a clue from what happened to the Soviets there, we deserve extinction.

The Pakistani's assertions about the US being in on 9/11 don't surprise me at all. The filthiest, most morally corrupt organization in the world, outside of the Bush family, is the ISI. I have never doubted, nor have my Middle Eastern friends, all of whom are quite astute politically, that ISI set up the whole thing with the cooperation of the United States.

Ever wonder how fast the Patriot Act was put forth? Ever see it? It's huge, a document that would normally take years to assemble. This was done in WEEKS, and no one said a word. Chimpy Fucknuts and his Merry Band of Fucks had it all ready and waiting, of that I am convinced. Same with the invasion of Iraq, which the neocons had in their heads even before Fucknuts was anointed by the Supreme Court.

We have only the credibility that Obama's assumption of the Presidency might bring us. I am wary of his plans to increase our forces in Afghanistan, since there is no reason for us being there. The Afghani people don't want us there, and Afghanistan played no role in 9/11. In short, we're there to screw with theTaliban, which makes no sense.

Watch Pakistan. Beware the ISI. I am holding my breath, convinced as I've been for months that Chimpy Fucknuts is going to pull something in the Middle East before he disappears from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W.

[Joe Chi Minh]

4. The very first words that enterd my mind when I read it: "What credibility?"

And of course, other massive negatives are an immeasurable raising of the threat of terrorism on home soil in both our countries, and the general prospect of Armageddon in the Middle-East. The disillusonment would be world-wide, but nowhere more so, of course than in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Moslem world.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

5. Time will show

that the bringing down of Saddam Hussein was a mistake of epic, perhaps Biblical, proportions. He was able to keep the people in check, through fear, which is what they understood, and able to keep the various factions off of each other's throats. He ruled the people they way they needed to be ruled. I have been taught this by Iraqis.

Fucknuts, though, decided to be the Messiah and bring democracy to Iraq at the point of a gun. It's comparable to the invasion of Vietnam, ostensibly because the US was afraid Vietnam would join forces with China, having, of course, no historical background to remind them that the Vietnamese and Chinese have always been enemies.

The terrorism threat is greater now than ever before, I believe, because the terrorists, whoever they are, will have to watch as The Biggest Terrorist, the one who did the most harm to America, is leaving office in a bit more than a month. The last thing they want to see is an America getting back up on its feet.

My one consolation in all of this is that I dwell about fifteen minutes away from the White House and the Capitol. The Pentagon is only ten minutes from here. If they drop The Big One on Washington, I'll never know what hit me................

[bemildred]

6. Well, Obama has his work cut out for him.

There is a long list of Roman Emperors that tried to turn things around. The people that brought us here are not suddenly going to reform and see the error of their ways.

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[stillcool]

7. I don't see anything hilarious about it ..

at all. Especially seeing how India has been having problems with bombings prior to the U.S. much trumpeted Mumbai bombings, and members of India's military were arrested for those. Funny how the U.S. news agencies conveniently forgot that. Regarding the pipeline..the taliban was warned.."carpet of gold, or carpet of bombs"..they did not back down... even though they were still in negotiations with the U.S. in August of 2001. Nope..I don't think any of it is hilarious.