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2006-10-03 India-Pakistan

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Posted by john 2006-10-03 16:32|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 How 'bout the steady drip drip drip of unadulterated BS? sheesh

Posted by Rex Mundi 2006-10-03 16:59|| 2006-10-03 16:59|| Front Page Top

#2 remind me again why we taxpayers pay for this domestic propaganda, but can't get Voice of America accurate media funding?

Posted by Frank G 2006-10-03 17:14|| 2006-10-03 17:14|| Front Page Top

#3 WGBH, the Boston PBS station, is building a nice new studio over in Brighton.
I hear it's a friggin palace...

Posted by tu3031 2006-10-03 17:17|| 2006-10-03 17:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Oh for phuechs sake! Bugger Woodward, his bomber jacket, baseball cap and shades, and his club of treasonous, leaking, current and former OGA operations and wannabe types. The "drip, drip, drip" SHOULD be coming from execution post where the cold bodies of these treasonous reporters and kak writers should be slumped. Whores and worthless communist bastards.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-10-03 17:26|| 2006-10-03 17:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Well hell...I just read that Frist, touring in Romania, has just called for bringing the Taliban into a more transparent Afghan govt. ... like they'd just all of a sudden make nice. With idiots like this in charge we're lost. I'm relocating to the Sierra Nevada, and if anyone visits, approach slowly Hint: bringing beer is a clear statement of one's intent.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2006-10-03 19:02|| 2006-10-03 19:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Not that it's really anything new, but...

Challenged on Fox, Frist corrected / clarified (he is on his way back from Afghanistan) that he said we should be talking to the tribal leaders and bringing them around to our side. Revolutionary idea, no? Lol. Dunno if he was misquoted / assassinated or if he's that confused. Prolly both, in that mangled interview sort of way.

Posted by .com 2006-10-03 19:12|| 2006-10-03 19:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Frist is not presidential timber, more like plywood or cedar with knots

Posted by Captain America 2006-10-03 19:34|| 2006-10-03 19:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Frontline produces some of the best documentary work on television, bar none. Did any of you bother to read the main points of the article?

Return of the Taliban sets out to demonstrate that actually, Pakistani officials know more than they are letting on, and are not particularly eager to help American forces find out.

According to the filmmakers, however, there is nothing soft and helpless about the way the Musharraf administration handles Pakistani reporters. The documentary points the finger at the government for the murder in Hayatullah Khan, a Pakistani journalist who worked with PBS and whose reporting on a 2005 missile attack on a Qaeda operative embarrassed the Musharraf government. (The Pakistan army said that American forces had nothing to do with the attack; Mr. Khan published pictures of missile fragments covered with United States military markings.) Soon after, Mr. Khan disappeared, and last June his corpse was found, riddled with bullets and hands bound with government-issue handcuffs, in North Waziristan, a tribal region on the Afghan border.

These are important points that the American public needs to know about. They may well help our nation begin to adopt more rational policy in how we deal with such treacherous regimes as Musharraf's Pakistan. The point that Iraq may have diverted needed American military strength away from properly defeating the Taleban is a valid one. It certainly deserves to be addressed in any reasonable examination of the Afghan conflict. To not have done so would have been a journalistic error.

Too bad my television is still off after some five years now. Frontline is one of the few shows I really miss. It typically provides unflinching and highly accurate information. If any of you have seen their superb documentary on Jesus Christ ("From Jesus to Christ - The First Christians"), you would know what I mean. I suggest that all of you try and put aside your normally justifiable disgust with PBS and watch the show. While PBS too often has a noticably liberal slant, I defy any of you to say that Masterpiece Theater doesn't put the vast majority of existing commercial network television broadcasting to complete and total shame.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-10-03 19:45|| 2006-10-03 19:45|| Front Page Top

#9 To play a significant role in Afghanistan, you must have access from the south, Only Pakistan or Iran allows this access. Musharaf may be an SOB, but its hard to imagine a better option.

Lose Musharaf and I pretty much guarantee you lose Afghanistan.

As my mother used to say, "Things are not good or bad. They are merely better or worse than the alternatives."

Posted by phil_b 2006-10-03 20:10|| 2006-10-03 20:10|| Front Page Top

#10 With respect to Musharraf, the US can certainly topple him by cutting off aid. Maybe the Pakistanis will install Osama in his place or a near equivalent. I don't know that have the kooks control all of Pakistan is to our advantage but we will see regardless. Musharraf is a dead man walking and the kooks will eventually kill him unless he flees.

With respect to the flick, I'm sure the producers want to encourage American citizens to question the effectiveness of GOP leadership. Instead Americans will become even more nervous about putting guys like Feinstein in charge.

Posted by Super Hose 2006-10-03 23:24|| 2006-10-03 23:24|| Front Page Top

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