Posted on 02/26/2007 5:20:49 PM PST by Leisler
The money is down a rat hole. Bush, Rice, the Chiefs are out and out chumps. The Pakis must be laughing all the way to their banks in the Bahamas.
10 billon dollars?
yeah. I don't believe this number at all either.
For that kind of money we should be allowed to go into Western part and kick some butt
This is the country that I consider to be as dangerous as any other one. One coup and you have a pile of nukes available for AQ.
That is disgusing.
We have just figured out how the Taliban are funded.
That money is not for taking on "a couple of tribes."
That money is for killing more Indians.
Foreign Aid is the code word we use so that no one gets upset about us paying off governments to do what we want, bribes. But don't tell the left.
That said I'm sure we could have bought pakistan for a lot less.
Whats new, we pay anyone with their hand out friend or enemy Russia, North Korea,Mexico, China, you get the idea.
It is as it always was, inertia. There was no strategy, delusions, yes, huge chains of wishful thinking motivated by desire not to see reality. And what was the name of this inertia, the force? Islam.
The Bush circus admits to paying some of the Pakis, a billion a year. That is 1/4 of their, ahem, defense budget. And the Pakis can't ride up a dirt road and take out some tribes? WTF? They can, they just won't.
Do you have to be a idiot to work in Washington? I kind of cann't blame them for taking the money.
Shoo- a good chunk of money goes for buying them new F-16s,AEW aircraft,AMRAAMs & Harpoon missiles all to take on Osama's mighty forces!!!
Even when a cease-fire along the border was in place between June and September last year, Pakistan sought and received $100 million per month in U.S. reimbursements for troop operations "raising questions about what they are being reimbursed for," said South Asia expert Alan Kronstadt of the Library of Congress' Congressional Research Service
I don't believe 10 billion dollars either. The real figure, given what we're doing in Pakistan these days, the associated support costs, and greasing the wheels to keep the deeply anti-American government agencies quiet, is probably a few times that.
Funding the enemy. Beyond belief.
I wouldn't be too sure. The Taliban was an ally of the Musharraf government, as they were aligned against India. The average government official in Pakistan probably took a lot of persuading to back the U.S. instead of the Taliban. Fear of the U.S. siding with India, coupled with some very generous payouts from Uncle Sam, are probably the only reason that Musharraf's head is still connected to his neck.
Don't imagine for a second that Pakistan is our friend. Were it any other country in the world besides the USA, Pakistan would have sided with the Taliban in 2001. Even now, Pakistan hunts al-Qa'ida, who they don't care for anyway, while funneling resources and support to the Taliban, to help bring them back into power.
Those are bribes that the Paki's demand and get from American suckers. You don't need any of that to drive some trucks full on infantry up dirt roads.
Frankly, it would be cheaper to cut out the Pakis and just buy the Taliban.
Or just bomb away at Talibanistan and tell the Pakis go pound sand. Just to make the Pakis really go nuts, I'd hire some Indians to jabber away on American radio freqs.
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