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2006-09-25 India-Pakistan

Pakistan is not a banana republic: Musharraf

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Posted by john 2006-09-25 07:29|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Technically, I believe he's accurate. I think Pakistan's becoming a banana republic would be a step up.

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2006-09-25 07:50|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com ]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com ] 2006-09-25 07:50|| Front Page Top

#2 At least banana republics are useful - they export bananas. They also don't destabilize the entire world with jihadi and nuclear technology exports.

Posted by john 2006-09-25 07:55|| 2006-09-25 07:55|| Front Page Top

#3 You know, he is right, Stone Age?

Posted by Captain America 2006-09-25 07:58|| 2006-09-25 07:58|| Front Page Top

#4 After all, bananas are un-Islamic.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-09-25 08:23|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-09-25 08:23|| Front Page Top

#5 ...Nahh. It's a Hummus Republic.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-09-25 08:50|| 2006-09-25 08:50|| Front Page Top

#6 I do not comment on things I dont know about. ~~and don't want to know about~~, He said

Posted by Besoeker 2006-09-25 08:56|| 2006-09-25 08:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Watched a comment on the supposed threat of nuking Iran. Famous Leaker of Interest (If I remember right) said: "I couldn't threatened to bomb them back to the Stone Age because big sections of Pakistan haven't entered the Stone Age yet. One just can't bomb them to a higher level."

Then again it might have been one of those snarky Nat Review guys.

Posted by 3dc 2006-09-25 09:31|| 2006-09-25 09:31|| Front Page Top

#8 It's really more of a plantain plutocracy.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-09-25 09:42|| 2006-09-25 09:42|| Front Page Top

#9 He is right.

Pakistan does not grow banannas.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2006-09-25 09:45|| 2006-09-25 09:45|| Front Page Top

#10 Yes we have no bananas's. Sorry somebody had to.

Posted by Cheaderhead 2006-09-25 11:00|| 2006-09-25 11:00|| Front Page Top

#11 Hashish republic?

Posted by xbalanke 2006-09-25 16:56|| 2006-09-25 16:56|| Front Page Top

#12 It would be. You don't know how to grow f**kin' bananas !

Posted by SOP35/Rat 2006-09-25 19:05|| 2006-09-25 19:05|| Front Page Top

#13 Y'all are all wrong, since they're all "Bananas"......

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-09-25 20:44|| 2006-09-25 20:44|| Front Page Top

#14 Absolutely Pakistan is not a banana republic.

It's a military dictatorship. Of the, um, banana-y type

Posted by Badda bing ... 2006-09-25 20:47|| 2006-09-25 20:47|| Front Page Top

#15 I still say the only solution to the Pakistan problem is to divide it equally between Afghanistan and India, along the Indus river. Nothing else will stop the nonsense that began the day Pakistan gained "independence".

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-09-25 21:21|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-09-25 21:21|| Front Page Top

#16 I'd leave the uninhabitable radioactive portion as a Muslim Holy Land/Designated Madrassah Property

Posted by Frank G 2006-09-25 21:44|| 2006-09-25 21:44|| Front Page Top

#17 You say "ba-nan-ah", I say "bah-na-na", let's ~~call the whole thing off~~ blow the whole thing up.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-09-25 22:08|| 2006-09-25 22:08|| Front Page Top

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