You're right about Pakistan but I like Musharaf
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Submitted by rick (United States), Sep 12, 2006 at 17:10

Without Musharaf, there should be an immediate invasion to secure all the nuclear weapons. If there is one place you need a pro-American leader - regardless of how he got there, it's Pakistan. Forget democracy- you need someone you can talk with.

A friend of mine says the reason they are so crazy is to prove their Sunni foundation Islam as they feel " second rate "compared to the Saudis. and Arabs.

I know Musharaf stood with his crazy army generals against India thus threatening a nuclear war over Khasmiri Pakistani sponsored terrorism but I still like the guy.

In fact, the only person who explained the positive points of Islam as far as I am concerned was a Musharaf speech broadcast in the US after 9/11. For fifteen minutes I thought there was real hope.

Maybe I am crazy, but I do trust this guy alot more than I trust anyone from any Arab country and that includes Abdullah of Jordan, apparently our Numero Uno guy.

Don't forget his father supported Saddam in the 1990 Gulf War.

And if you think along the lines of "Jordan Is Palestine" you will have the most formidable foe in the Hashemite ruler. I call his philosophy for palestinians ABH -or Anywhere But Here.

And we know where the Hashemites really belong - in Arabia, just as the Saudis should go where they come from- Yemen. It's all the Brits moving tribes around at their whim after the takeover of the Ottoman Empire. Colonists pure , unadulaterated colonists.

Sorry about Musharaf but I agree with you in general about Pakistanis. They are crazy and that is why England has a real problem on its hands.

I never saw more energetic and committed burners of US flags and effigies of President Bush than Pakistani crowds on TV news. They would almost fall down while hitting with long sticks the effigy of Bush in flames using all of their strength.. Unlike the Iranians who did it for the camera these Pakistanis felt it in their souls.

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