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2003-05-16 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Paul Moloney 2003-05-16 02:39 am|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 He said if too many body bags reached America the public there would reject Bush and elect a Democrat president who may firmly take the US back to the United Nations.

My good sir, your perception of United States Presidential politics is exceptional for a Muslim. By all means please endorse the Democrat Nominee after their Convention, and I shall be happy to advertise said endorsement, with full attribution.

Nitwit.

Posted by Ptah 2003-05-16 06:19:30|| [www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2003-05-16 06:19:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Theses lil' nuggets of wisdom are a favorite of mine. OT : apart for a mind-numbing compulsory 1-yr draft, I have no military background; please, could someone explain how a captain could ever be considered a "famous war expert", except perhaps at company level?

Posted by Anonymous 2003-05-16 06:36:56|| 2003-05-16 06:36:56|| Front Page Top

#3 The Pakistani magazine that quotes these 'nuggets' is one of the countries few liberal media outlets, and they have a strong dislike for the Mullahs and the Army. So whenever one of Pakistan's seemingly endless supply of retired Generals, Colonels, Captains comment on current events, they use terms like "famous war expert" or "military genious" as a joke, since the Army has lost every war it has fought.

Posted by Paul Moloney 2003-05-16 07:35:30|| 2003-05-16 07:35:30|| Front Page Top

#4 then Pakistan should threaten the United States with a nuclear strike

Talk about gratitude! Jeez, Gen. Zia ul-Haq (sp.) must rolling over in his grave! The prospect, or threat thereof, however, gives us an opportunity to try the Indo-US-Israeli alliance that the Indian National Security Advisor was discussing. We do have an opening on the Axis of Evil, now, right?

Posted by Brian 2003-05-16 09:20:57|| 2003-05-16 09:20:57|| Front Page Top

#5 As reported in Khabrain leader of banned Lashkar-e-Tayba said in Faisalabad that Pakistan should train its population to become like Saddam Husseinâs Republican Guards, after which the armed forces of Pakistan should be sent to Iraq to fight against the Americans.

Yep, that will have us shaking in our shoes, train 'em up like the Republican Guard. Do these guys have any clue what happened in Iraq?

Posted by Steve White 2003-05-16 09:54:03|| 2003-05-16 09:54:03|| Front Page Top

#6 One song was stick under the bed, the other objectionable song was pot for milk. The two young men said they were so pious they could not listen to the songs without being upset.

Play Misty for Me does that to me all the time. :-)

Posted by Steve White 2003-05-16 09:55:55|| 2003-05-16 09:55:55|| Front Page Top

#7 And we thought the North Koreans were nuts???

Posted by tu3031 2003-05-16 10:11:42|| 2003-05-16 10:11:42|| Front Page Top

#8 Where's a Kemalist Thought Club when you need one?

Posted by Shipman 2003-05-16 10:28:07|| 2003-05-16 10:28:07|| Front Page Top

#9 Anon. B. H. Liddell-Hart got a medical retirement as a captain from the British Army after WW I.
He went on to become a scholar and widely-respected military historian and theorist.
Unfortunately, one of his biggest fans was Guderian.
Presumably, his combat experience and his scholarship are a particularly useful combination.
In the American military, captains are exposed to substantial education beyond moving platoons around which would make them experts compared to practically anybody but their superiors.
Still, this guy....

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2003-05-16 11:04:31|| 2003-05-16 11:04:31|| Front Page Top

#10

He said if too many body bags reached America the public there would reject Bush and elect a Democrat president who may firmly take the US back to the United Nations.

Hahahahhahahahahahahahaha!
They certainly do NOT understand the US. I guess all those years of lip-biting and teary admonishments as our sovreignty was handed over to the UN, made the Pakis think that America was a weak as Bill's knees when Hillary bitch-slaps him.
They would just LOVE for us to go back to the UN so they can hide behind the Annan Butcher Brigadeâ¢ and get a little Western street cred for their cancerous Islamist movement.

He said if he was in Saddamâs shoes he would have made chemical weapons. He said if he was General Musharraf I would prepare a missile with a 2000-mile range so as to reach Israel.

I've come to the reluctant conclusion that about 1 billion people are insane with religiously sanctioned hatred, anti-semitism, and violence.
Can you guess which billion?

Posted by Celissa 2003-05-16 12:47:46|| [www.celissasblog.com/weblog.php] 2003-05-16 12:47:46|| Front Page Top

#11 Paul Moloney is just scratching the surface. There are a lot of countries out there that think like that. China and South Korea (that's no typo) are just two of 'em. If most Americans knew how many crazies are out there running countries (and that's just our so-called friends), we'd abolish the State Department and rename Defense the War Department.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2003-05-16 14:54:06|| 2003-05-16 14:54:06|| Front Page Top

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