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Pakistan to Trump: We’re Not a U.S. Colony; You Give Us ‘Peanuts’
cnsnew ^ | 5/3/16

Posted on 05/03/2016 11:14:53 AM PDT by StCloudMoose

Stung by Donald Trump’s assertion that as president he would get Pakistan to release “in two minutes” the doctor who the U.S. says helped to track down Osama bin Laden, a Pakistani minister said Monday his country was not a U.S. colony and dismissed U.S. aid as “peanuts.”

“Contrary to Mr. Trump’s misconception, Pakistan is not a colony of the United States of America,” Interior Minister Chaudry Nisar Khan said in a statement.

“Shakil Afridi is a Pakistani citizen, and nobody else has the right to dictate to us about his future,” Khan said. “He should learn to treat sovereign countries with respect.”

Afridi’s fate, he said, would be decided “by the Pakistani courts and the government of Pakistan and not by Mr. Donald Trump, even if he becomes the president of the United States.”

In an appearance on Fox News last week, the Republican presidential frontrunner was asked whether as president he would get Afridi released.

“I think I would get him out in two minutes. I would tell them, ‘Let him out’ and I’m sure they’d let him out,” he said. “Because we give a lot of aid to Pakistan. We give a lot of money to Pakistan.”

Trump said the Pakistanis have no respect for President Obama, and that they, like others, “just take us for a bunch of suckers.”


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2016election; colony; election2016; newyork; pakistan; peanuts; trump; waronterror
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1 posted on 05/03/2016 11:14:54 AM PDT by StCloudMoose
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Guess those F-16’s ain’t moving too far unless BHO has something to say about it.


2 posted on 05/03/2016 11:15:45 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (I apologize for not apologizing.)
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Hopefully Trump will let those bastards hate us for free.


3 posted on 05/03/2016 11:16:17 AM PDT by gop4lyf (Gay marriage is neither.)
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To: StCloudMoose

I vote we give Pakistan the nuclear waster from our atomic power plants.

Deliver airmail to Karachi from about 15,000 feet.


4 posted on 05/03/2016 11:16:23 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: StCloudMoose

Trump isn’t the President either, so take your whining butts and figure out who is really screwing the pouch here, and it’s not right that you expect US to support YOU!!!


5 posted on 05/03/2016 11:18:25 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump; Trump; Trump; Trump; 100%)
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To: StCloudMoose

Not one cent to pakistan or any other muzzy country.


6 posted on 05/03/2016 11:19:41 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: StCloudMoose

Pakistan (and east pakistan known as bangladesh) are garbage cans for the worthless murdering muslims that infected India for ten centuries.


7 posted on 05/03/2016 11:21:49 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: StCloudMoose

Cool the first cut in foreign welfare has already been determined!

I feel the deficit shrinking already.


8 posted on 05/03/2016 11:22:04 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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If it’s just ‘peanuts’, they won’t miss it when it’s gone.


9 posted on 05/03/2016 11:22:49 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Pretty much true, we don’t give them much. So, let’s give them...nothing.


10 posted on 05/03/2016 11:23:20 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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11 posted on 05/03/2016 11:23:39 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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When we needed Pakistan for a base....we found out that they had zero intelligence. We set them up. We know they can't be trusted and only the money kept them in line.

Another insane country with nukes.

12 posted on 05/03/2016 11:24:11 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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OK lets see how they get along without that $2 billion check we give them every year.


13 posted on 05/03/2016 11:26:12 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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peanuts photo: Peanuts - Dec 26, 2013 peanuts-12-26-2013.gif

Hopefully it was before Woodstock showed up and it got too preachy.

14 posted on 05/03/2016 11:28:06 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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Trump said the Pakistanis have no respect for President Obama, and that they, like others, “just take us for a bunch of suckers.”

Doesn't sound like they are in awe of President Trump either.

15 posted on 05/03/2016 11:28:14 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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“Well thank you for your candor, Mr. Khan. We’ve decided to strengthen our ties with India. We’re giving them the F-16s you paid for, letting them build a domestic version of the Abrams tank and we’re helping them develop amphibious assault ships and attack helicopters.

So you have yourself a nice day!”


16 posted on 05/03/2016 11:28:19 AM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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Oh, okay. Well, we’ll just keep our peanuts then. Have a nice day!


17 posted on 05/03/2016 11:32:35 AM PDT by cincinnati65
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Stop the peanuts right now.


18 posted on 05/03/2016 11:35:17 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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To: DoodleDawg
Doesn't sound like they are in awe of President Trump either.

Trump hasn't really been President long enough to show them how impressive he can be.

19 posted on 05/03/2016 11:41:35 AM PDT by webheart (We are all pretty much living in a fiction.)
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We’re Not a U.S. Colony; You Give Us ‘Peanuts’

We should not be "giving" them ANYTHING!

20 posted on 05/03/2016 12:05:58 PM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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