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#1 Sep 22 2006 at 10:47 AM Rating: Good

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Plame leak, secret CIA prisons in former Soviet Bloc countries, prior information of terrorist plots to use hijacked planes as weapons, knowing the severity of Katerina and its impact New Orleans, etc.

All things the Bush administration has disavowed knowledge of and have later had to go 'whoops we actually did know/do'.

Question of the day: Will this be added to the list, or is it just a crazy pakistani dictator 4 life / US ally trying to create drama to build publicity for his forthcoming memoirs to be published by Simon&Schuster?

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The Pakistan president has told CBS News that -- immediately following the September 11, 2001, attacks -- the Bush administration threatened to bomb his country "back to the Stone Age" if Pakistan did not help in the U.S. war on terrorism.

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#2 Sep 22 2006 at 10:50 AM Rating: Good

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Add it to the list.

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#3 Sep 22 2006 at 11:04 AM Rating: Good

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Edited, Sep 22nd 2006 at 3:04pm EDT by Barkingturtle

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#4 Sep 22 2006 at 11:09 AM Rating: Default

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It's an amazing coincidence that this comes out now, right when Ahmadinejad and Chavez are on a campaign to defame Bush. If I was paranoid I might consider this a lead in to war, but I'm not so I just consider it retarded.

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#5 Sep 22 2006 at 11:48 AM Rating: Good

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Geez...5 yrs later he mentions this to CBS news.

What he probably threatened was to send U.S. Pakistani's back home, where the would all bomb each other into the stone age.

Seems to be working for the rest of the Middle East.

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#6 Sep 22 2006 at 11:50 AM Rating: Good

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I thought the only time they sent persons back to their countries of origin was in order to have local officials coerce the truth out of them?

Rendition Much?

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#7 Sep 22 2006 at 11:52 AM Rating: Good

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Yes.

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#8 Sep 22 2006 at 11:57 AM Rating: Decent

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I believe it is just a case of kicking someone while thier down. Bush has done enough to even lose support of many die hard Republicans on top of majority of the world feeling some dismay towards the United States already.

I would assume that words were twisted from what actually took place in hopes that those skeptical of the United States will believe The Pakistan president over Bush in this case of your word against mine. Then if something does come of this he will have more sympathy making America look like the bad guy as usual.

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#9 Sep 22 2006 at 12:37 PM Rating: Excellent

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If Armitage (and doesn't his name seem to always show up in the thick of things?) did make a statement that Pakistan was at serious risk, he may or may not have meant that the risk came from the U.S. directly. Plausible deniability is the watchword of American politics.

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#10 Sep 22 2006 at 1:05 PM Rating: Decent

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Samira wrote:

If Armitage (and doesn't his name seem to always show up in the thick of things?) did make a statement that Pakistan was at serious risk, he may or may not have meant that the risk came from the U.S. directly. Plausible deniability is the keystone of American politics.

Agreed.

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#11 Sep 22 2006 at 3:42 PM Rating: Good

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Sounds like another one we can add to the list of erroneous news reports that'll end up being a complete misunderstanding or mistranslation (or just an out and out exageration by the reporter).

Of course, none of you will notice when the retraction is made...

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#12 Sep 22 2006 at 3:55 PM Rating: Good

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Hmmm. Let's see...

Plame leak. WGARA.

Secret CIA prisons in former Soviet Bloc countries? WGARA.

Knowing the severity of Katerina and its impact New Orleans? Uhhh, WGARA-- again.

Maybe, just maybe, if there was some veracity to the conspiracy theory of knowing about of Muzzies hijacking planes and flying them into buildings, then maybe I'd say we need to look into that. But all that other stuff? Pffft. Big deal. Mr. & Mrs. Plame work as a government employee at the will of the President. They should have known that going public with private opinions is a no-no. Secret prisons? <shrugs> Obviously they weren't secret enough. Killing them slowly would have been a much better option. And last but not least, Nawlines. The tragedy here is that Katrina didn't park its fat a$$ on top of that city for several weeks or that another hurricane didn't come along this season and finish the job. That city is a festering boil on the collective unwashed and hemorrhoid-laden balloon knot of America. Good riddance.

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#13 Sep 22 2006 at 4:07 PM Rating: Decent

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Hey, the guy's got a book to sell. Give him a break.

the BBC (so it must be the truth) wrote:

In his response to a reporter's question on the subject, the Pakistani president said, to laughter, that he was "honour-bound" with his publisher not to discuss details of his autobiography due out next week.

Some analysts say the timing of his comments on CBS may be an attempt to generate interest in the book.

The BBC's Jonathan Beale in Washington says that, in the CBS interview, Gen Musharraf was deliberately distancing himself from the White House in the face of intense pressure within Pakistan over his close ties to Washington.

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So the guy's promoting a book published by an American publishing house, and/or he's dissing Bush for political gain. How very American of him! Smiley: thumbsup

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#14 Sep 22 2006 at 6:31 PM Rating: Good

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Samira wrote:

If Armitage (and doesn't his name seem to always show up in the thick of things?) did make a statement that Pakistan was at serious risk, he may or may not have meant that the risk came from the U.S. directly. Plausible deniability is the watchword of American politics.

Lol. With "possible interpretation" being the watchword of American media.

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#15 Sep 22 2006 at 9:29 PM Rating: Good

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Tot3m wrote:

Maybe, just maybe, if there was some veracity to the conspiracy theory of knowing about of Muzzies hijacking planes and flying them into buildings, then maybe I'd say we need to look into that.

Your pick, their denial of any prior warning, though there wasm it just got lost through incompetence, not suprising really given the administrations track record.

Or their repeated and instant claims in the days following 9/11 that they had no idea that someone would or could fly a plane into a building as a weapon, despite a number of their senior staff being briefed on this very likely occurence (and a whole manual on the scenario showing a plane flying into a WTT like set of buildings).

But hey, the guy is a 'straight shooter', right?

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