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**La N**

"tankfixer" wrote in message
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In article afrpk.7555$%b7.4736@edtnps82,
says...

"Zombywoof" wrote in message
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On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:37:42 +0100, "William Black"
wrote:

"La N" wrote in message
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"eatfastnoodle" wrote in message
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On Aug 14, 9:16 pm, "La N" wrote:
"Tiger" wrote in message

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Just when the world is watching something else, the other shoe
drops....

Yahoo! News

Pakistan's Musharraf to resign as president: report

2 hours, 56 minutes ago

Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf will resign rather than face
impeachment by parliament, the Financial Times said on its Web
site,
citing government officials and a member of his circle.

Just yesterday, I believe, I was watching on some news shows
interviews
with
Pakistanis who say that the hatred that Pakistanis have had against
America
is because of the US support of Musharraf who is very unpopular in
his
own
country.

It's going to be interesting to see what happens next.

- nilita

I believe it's more of the other way around. Musharraf is hated
because of his alliance with US. Blair used to be hottie NO.1 in
Britain until he became Bush's poodle NO.1 in the eyes of his
countrymen. The former Spanish prime minister got himself voted out
of
office because he was seen too close to the US. I suppose you don't
seriously believe US is hated because of Musharraf? I mean, come on.

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Okay, you tell me .... why *do* the Pakistanis hate the U.S.?

Because the US Air Force keeps blowing up weddings there by mistake...

Funny thing about bombs, once released they sorta go where they are
going to go.

Also, if it wasn't a tradition to blast away with your AK @ Weddings I
suspect there might be less of them bombed.
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Oh, tell me about it! I think the best thing to do would be to invade
those
wacky Muslim countries and force them to change their customs and
culture!

That's interesting.
I recall back a during the 1990's there were calls about how terrible
the Taliban were in thier treatment of women.

And that has to do with my tongue-in-cheek comment ... what .....?

But, to fine tune it for you, Tanky, here was my implication. Wolfie was
blaming the innocent victims for being bombed by the U.S., because it is
their custom to shoot AKs airwards at weddings. Blaming the victims and
their tribal wedding customs is not going to win you hearts and minds.

- nilita