Pakistan weighed chances against US before backing 'war on terror'

[Kadie]

Pakistan weighed chances against US before backing 'war on terror'
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NEW YORK (AFP) - Pakistan weighed up its chances of surviving a US military assault before joining the "war on terror" after the September 11, 2001 attacks, President Pervez Musharraf says in a book.

In the collection of memoirs, "In the Line of Fire," Musharraf relates how he was told by then-US secretary of state Colin Powell after the attacks: "you are either with us or against us," and that it was quickly obvious his decision was academic.

"I war-gamed the United States as an adversary," Musharraf writes. "The question was: if we do not join them, can we confront them and withstand the onslaught? The answer was no... Our military forces would be destroyed."

"The Americans would undoubtedly have taken the opportunity of an invasion to destroy (Pakistan's nuclear) weapons... Our economic infrastructure, built over half a century, would have been decimated," he says.

"We could not endure a military confrontation with the United States from any point of view," he adds.

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[kurth]

1. Pakistan counted money from US before backing 'war on terror'

is the correct headline.

[Junkdrawer]

2. With "allies" like this, who needs enemies?

LondonYank posts this on DKos:

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Before 9-11 Pakistan was regarded as hostile to the USA and complicit in international terrorism against the USA. The terrorist training camps funded by the CIA and Saudis and run by Pakistan's ISI to resist the Soviets in Afghanistan had morphed into the world's leading terrorism resource.

Since 9-11 Pakistan has been embraced by the Bush administration as an ally and received billions of dollars of grants, loans and weaponry. Given that Pakistan is linked to ALL major terrorism attacks before 9-11, on 9-11 and since 9-11, you have to wonder whose side they are on.

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Pakistan has been linked to the training, supply and financing of the 9-11 attacks in New York and Washington, the Bali Bombings, the Madrid bombings, the 7/7/05 and 7/21/05 attacks in London, and the Delhi bombings. Pakistan harbours all the leaders of Al Qaeda, facilitates all the finance, provides all the sophisticated equipment for bombings, and provides all the training to all the known terrorist cells.


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/9/18/82548/4524

[AIJ Alom]

3. And this is the reason why we should have invaded Pakistan if the POTUS

was serious of catching Osama Bin Laden and really destroying Al Qaeda. Pakistan's ISI helped create the monster.Then we should have invaded Saudi Arabia, if the POTUS was serious about establishing democracy in the mideast. Saudi Arabia is the theocratic-dictator model tyrants in the mideast look up to not secular Iraq. Kill the progenitor so they cannot spawn any more hate, but of course with the most oil industry friendly administration in power, we had other obligations.