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2009-02-08 India-Pakistan

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Posted by john frum 2009-02-08 09:30|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 how about "FOAD"?

Posted by Frank G 2009-02-08 09:37|| 2009-02-08 09:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Cut them off. I'd rather have Obama spend it on pork.

Posted by Darrell 2009-02-08 09:58|| 2009-02-08 09:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Margaret Bourke-White, correspondent and photographer for LIFE magazine in September 1947

In the weeks to come I was to hear the Quaid-i-Azam's thesis echoed by government officials throughout Pakistan. "Surely America will build up our army," they would say to me. "Surely America will give us loans to keep Russia from walking in." But when I asked whether there were any signs of Russian infiltration, they would reply almost sadly, as though sorry not to be able to make more of the argument. "No, Russia has shown no signs of being interested in Pakistan."

This hope of tapping the U. S. Treasury was voiced so persistently that one wondered whether the purpose was to bolster the world against Bolshevism or to bolster Pakistan's own uncertain position as a new political entity. Actually, I think, it was more nearly related to the even more significant bankruptcy of ideas in the new Muslim state -- a nation drawing its spurious warmth from the embers of an antique religious fanaticism, fanned into a new blaze.

Posted by john frum 2009-02-08 10:16|| 2009-02-08 10:16|| Front Page Top

#4 What! You mean aid to Pakistan is NOT in the stimulus package? Clearly an oversight!

Posted by DMFD 2009-02-08 10:34|| 2009-02-08 10:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Hellfires have no strings attached. Send them all they can stand, via airmail!

Posted by 49 Pan 2009-02-08 11:03|| 2009-02-08 11:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Who wouldn't want "no strings attached" aid? Just send a little of it my way. Seems only fair to me.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2009-02-08 11:32|| 2009-02-08 11:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Sorry Abdul. You guys aint done nuthin in a long time, you'll get what I can find in my couch cushions.

Posted by Mike N. 2009-02-08 12:01|| 2009-02-08 12:01|| Front Page Top

#8 I DON'T THINK THEY EVEN DESERVE WHAT YOU WOULD FIND IN YOUR COUCH CUSHIONS

Posted by rabid whitetail 2009-02-08 12:11|| 2009-02-08 12:11|| Front Page Top

#9 and why should there be no strings attached when yall can't even keep our supply routes open?

Posted by rabid whitetail 2009-02-08 12:25|| 2009-02-08 12:25|| Front Page Top

#10 So do I. Of course, I want a pony too.

Posted by Frozen Al 2009-02-08 13:35|| 2009-02-08 13:35|| Front Page Top

#11 GIVE THEM NOTHING. THEY TAKE OUR MONEY AND DONT LET US USE THEIR COUNTRY TO STOP TERRORISTS. HELP INDIA NOT PAKISTAN. GO AFTER TERRORISTS WITHOUT THEIR APPROVAL. IF THEY INTERFERE SEND IN SOME B52'S AND MAKE PAKISTAN PART OF INDIA. WE WILL NOT STAND FOR THE LOSS OF AMERICAN LIVES. THEY ARE NOT OUR FRIENDS.

Posted by SPM 2009-02-08 14:22|| 2009-02-08 14:22|| Front Page Top

#12 STOP LETTING THESE COUNTRIES DICTATE TERMS TO US. THEY WANT OUR MONEY, O.K. ON OUR TERMS NOT THEIRS. BUSCH AND CLINTON LET THESE COUNTRIES PUSH US AROUND. ITS ABOUT TIME WE PUSH ABCK AND REESTABLISH WHO WE ARE. THESE COUNTRIES SHIT ON US. BUT WHEN THEY NEED HELP, THEY CALL UNCLE SAM

Posted by SPM 2009-02-08 14:25|| 2009-02-08 14:25|| Front Page Top

#13 SPM---appreciate your comments, but ixnay of the apskay ekay. Please, no caps. Only Joe has a license to do that.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2009-02-08 15:15|| 2009-02-08 15:15|| Front Page Top

#14 SPM, you are wasting your time with all caps. We simply don't read it past the first line or so. Better lower case and no caps.

Posted by Darrell 2009-02-08 16:09|| 2009-02-08 16:09|| Front Page Top

#15 Isn't that what our government did with the bank bailout with our tax dollars? No strings attached? The Paki Waki's just want in on a good deal when they see one.

Posted by Tyranysaurus Angegum9270 2009-02-08 17:25|| 2009-02-08 17:25|| Front Page Top

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