[ryan71]

"But we have made very clear that we went straight to President Musharraf in the days after 9/11 and said it's time to make a choice: Are you going to side with the civilized world or are you going to side with the Taliban and al-Qaida,"

Given the very tense environment at that time I'm not surprised Musharraf translated this to mean, "we will bomb you into the stone age".

No Story here.

[Brilliant]

Kinda surprising that someone from the State Dept. would make such statements. Usually, they are butt-kissers.