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Pakistani flood victims' anger at US
BBC ^ | 8/21/2010 | Jill McGivering

Posted on 08/23/2010 7:13:51 PM PDT by Immerito

Displaced people are camping everywhere. Shelters of canvas and plastic sheeting line the edges of the highways linking Islamabad to Peshawar in the north-west of the country.

The roads are raised, a precious strip of dry land in a sea of stagnant floodwater and thick mud.

I stopped at one makeshift camp and a group of men rushed forward as soon as I got out of the car, crowding round.

One was a thin-faced man in his 40s called Iftikhar.

He pointed to the swamped ground beyond the railway tracks and the remains of his village. His house had been badly damaged, he said.

Even though the waters were starting to recede, it was too unstable for him to move back there with his six daughters.

We desperately need help from the government, so we can rebuild," he told me.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: floodvictims; pakistan; pakistani; pakistanis
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To: samadams2000

Right now would be a good time for the 100 million dollar project for the Ground Zero Mosque, to be shipped to help these dear Muslim Brethern.


81 posted on 08/23/2010 8:15:05 PM PDT by rovenstinez (,)
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To: Pan_Yan

What do you expect? Bush and Obama made all sorts of promises, now they are begging for more. This is what you get when you start nation building.


82 posted on 08/23/2010 8:16:09 PM PDT by Captain Kirk
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To: Immerito

Tell them to pray to Allah! How much help has the Muslim countries given? Why is it that every Muslim country looks to Christian countries for help whenever things go wrong? Let the Muslims take care of the Muslims.


83 posted on 08/23/2010 8:17:35 PM PDT by Nosterrex
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To: Noob1999

Your rapier wit is quite amazing. You’re quite the renaissance man. I bet you pour your wine out of the box before chugging it.


84 posted on 08/23/2010 8:17:40 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear (Does not play well with others)
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To: Grizzled Bear
This one has a smell!

Indeed it does!

85 posted on 08/23/2010 8:17:49 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Nobody reads tag lines.)
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To: OldMissileer

I agree.


86 posted on 08/23/2010 8:19:46 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck.)
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To: Graybeard58

Check out the decoy name here -

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2576287/posts?page=80#80

I wonder who he’s setting up?

I’m waiting for the release of noob’s latest CD - “Life is tough out there for a mouth breathing half wit, yo!”


87 posted on 08/23/2010 8:21:23 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear (Does not play well with others)
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To: Noob1999; Grizzled Bear
I've been observing foreign aid all my adult life and haven't seen us buy one damn'd friend yet. We give, they spit in our faces. That's the way it's always been.

(We were well on the way of capturing the Iraqi’s hearts, until Karpinski and Lyndee Englund decided to parade proud nude men around on leashes. Then the locals felt that we were mocking them, and things immediately turned ugly.)

Liberal clap trap in spades.

88 posted on 08/23/2010 8:22:31 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Nobody reads tag lines.)
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To: Grizzled Bear

Grizzley, I don’t really know what your problem is?

Do I express sentiments about Pakistan that upset you?

Do you not like my handle?

Or are you just an A-Hole trying to make trouble?

I don’t know, so I’ll just go to bed.

Good night!


89 posted on 08/23/2010 8:22:45 PM PDT by Noob1999
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To: Immerito

Bad Mohammed! No jizya!


90 posted on 08/23/2010 8:29:38 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("I can't possibly get into trouble letting my monkey carry grenades." --Gen. Karl Tagon)
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To: Noob1999
Please list all the times our willingness to give our treasure, lives and work to rescue some Third World toilet from some natural disaster or malignant mass murder have resulted in anything except contempt. For sixty years, we have been out front in trying to help the worthless, succor the stupid, pay the greedy thieves of foreign governments who could care less about their own populations.

We're broke. Pissed it away on people who will kill us in an instant. Even our own president hates and ignores the people he was hired to lead.

Let them starve, or drown, or kill each other. They are animals. Let them eat each other. We have our own problems.

91 posted on 08/23/2010 8:30:41 PM PDT by jonascord (We've got the Constitution to protect us. Why should we worry?)
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To: Joan Kerrey

We gotta be careful. Our next President might turn out to be isolationist.


92 posted on 08/23/2010 8:33:02 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Graybeard58

.............Liberal clap trap in spades...........

Graybeard, go back to the Iraqi timeline.

We helped destroy the Saddam statues, we took over whole sections of Baghdad. Yes there were losses, beheadings, burned bodies on the bridge, all of that, bu we made great progress for a few months after that.

Then suddenly pictures came out of Abi Grahib prison, with pyramids of nude men, men paraded around by little female Lyndee with a cigarette in her puss.

We had make great progress, then the Sunni and Shia decided it was time for civil war, as the American’s were not our friends - they’re mocking us!

The next six years were living hell! I blame Karpinski and Englund and her ilk for upsetting the gains that we had made.

You may differ, and I will respect your opinion.


93 posted on 08/23/2010 8:34:49 PM PDT by Noob1999
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To: Noob1999; Graybeard58
Grizzley, I don’t really know what your problem is?

My problem is a foul mouthed, naive retread troll named Noob1999 is posting liberal clap trap and progressive communist talking points.

Do I express sentiments about Pakistan that upset you?

No, just the "unicorns, fairies and rainbows" bilge you spew.

I don’t know, so I’ll just go to bed.

That's probably for the best. You'll never win hearts and minds of your ideological opponents by posting, "screw you."

Good night!

Good night, Dane!

94 posted on 08/23/2010 8:35:58 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear (Does not play well with others)
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To: Noob1999

They were looking for anything to come up with to come after us, if we didn’t do it, they would have just made something up.


95 posted on 08/23/2010 8:36:10 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Immerito
Let the basturds starve...
96 posted on 08/23/2010 8:40:04 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: TheBattman

the whold world knows it...look at what O gave to Kenya..


97 posted on 08/23/2010 8:42:20 PM PDT by dalebert (true hillbilly)
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To: mazda77; Little Bill

if Ron Paul sounds okay, you really are whacked out!


98 posted on 08/23/2010 8:43:37 PM PDT by RaceBannon (RON PAUL: THE PARTY OF TRUTHERS, TRAITORS AND UFO CHASERS!!!)
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To: Noob1999; Graybeard58; LS
When we handed abu Ghraib over to the Iraqis, the prisoners begged to be transferred to an American facility. Middle eastern prisons aren't exactly a pleasant vacation getaway. Beatings and humiliation are not considered misbehavior. The treatment by Iraqi prison guards made womens' panties on the head seem like...womens' panties on the head!

If we're to believe Professor Larry Schweikart, a noted historian, attacks dropped after the scandal. The terrorists were terrified. “If they catch you, they will hand you over to their women!”

99 posted on 08/23/2010 8:50:07 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear (Does not play well with others)
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To: Immerito

I don’t see much Muslim help coming from Muslim countries such as Abu Dhabi.

Expect a wave of Paki immigrants soon to join either the crowd at the mosque at GZ or the domestically trained muslim terrorists hiding in safe houses.


100 posted on 08/23/2010 8:51:42 PM PDT by 353FMG (ISLAM - America's inevitable road to destruction.)
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