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2006-07-06 India-Pakistan

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Posted by john 2006-07-06 19:22|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I'm just speechless at this nonsense..

Posted by john 2006-07-06 19:25|| 2006-07-06 19:25|| Front Page Top

#2 handing a huge victory to the Indians, who gleefully crowed they were getting revenge for Kargil.

Bizarre reading of history. Kargil was not a Pak victory. They lost.

From

http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1039940

The Pakistan Army lost 2,700 military personnel in the Kargil conflict, far higher than its casualties during the 1965 and 1971 wars with India, former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif has said in his memoirs.
Sharif said the casualties suffered by the Army were so extensive that an entire brigade of the Northern Light Infantry based in the Pakistan-controlled Northern Areas was wiped out
Sharif said adding he was told the Indian artillery bombardment was so extensive that it blew off the heads of Pakistan soldiers hiding in trenches.

Musharraf told Sharif that because the trenches did not have covers, the soldiers were directly exposed to artillery fire.

"Let me tell you by the time when the Washington deal took place, the Indians had already recaptured half of the peaks and were advancing further. I protected the Pakistan Army's honour or they would have been left with nothing," Sharif said.
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Posted by john 2006-07-06 19:34|| 2006-07-06 19:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Pakistan has done more than enough. Who wired $100,000 to Mohammed Atta?

Posted by ed 2006-07-06 19:36|| 2006-07-06 19:36|| Front Page Top

#4 This is the clincher...

ISI was transformed from one of the worlds finest intelligence agencies into a compliant servant of the government

So the ISI was just fine when it was unopposed in formenting jihad ?

Posted by john 2006-07-06 19:39|| 2006-07-06 19:39|| Front Page Top

#5 i can't believe what i just read. i

Posted by Greamp Elmavinter1163 2006-07-06 20:36|| 2006-07-06 20:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Nuggets from the Urdu Press came in early this week I guess?

Posted by tu3031 2006-07-06 20:42|| 2006-07-06 20:42|| Front Page Top

#7 Eric Margolis...wasn't that the guy who played Angel Martin on the Rockford Files?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-06 20:45|| 2006-07-06 20:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Margolis is the former proprietor and chairman of Jamieson Laboratories, a leading manufacturer of vitamins and herbal supplements

Posted by john 2006-07-06 21:03|| 2006-07-06 21:03|| Front Page Top

#9 I call bullshit: "The US is spending $6.1 billion a week alone in Iraq, and another $1.5 billion to $2 billion weekly in Afghanistan. To quote the late President Ziaul Haq, three to four billion dollars per annum is peanuts."

Let's see. $6.1 billion per week would be $312 billion per year. That would be most of the Defense budget on Iraq alone. Add in another $78-$104 billion on Afghanistan and you're talking serious money. Sounds like fuzzy math to me.

Posted by Tibor 2006-07-06 21:21|| http://incompetenttibor.blogspot.com]">[http://incompetenttibor.blogspot.com] 2006-07-06 21:21|| Front Page Top

#10 We get what we paided for, if Pakistan wants more money, maybe they should return the investment. Their surrounded by US Afghanistan, India, and Shite Iran, they better take what they can get.

Posted by Jesing Ebbease3087 2006-07-06 22:54|| 2006-07-06 22:54|| Front Page Top

#11 I guess all those assassination attempts didn't "persuade" Mushy our way, either, eh Mr. Margolis? Just like Chechnya/Beslan didn't persuade Putty more in our camp. Geez, what a maroon. One of the few articles where I don't even know where to begin shredding it apart.

Posted by BA 2006-07-06 23:07|| 2006-07-06 23:07|| Front Page Top

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