US threatened to bomb Pakistan 'back to stone age' after 9/11: Musharraf

[EagleEyes]

This is the typical coward attitude that in born of losers. If anyone threatened Bangladesh like that we would fight back. I am sure most Pakistanis would also do the same but their military leadership shows how weak they are even with nuclear weapons.

It was a smart decision.

If that has happened to Bangladesh. There would have been no Bangladesh. Imagine a country with no nuclear weapons and fights with U.S!

He made a correct decision and leaded the country to the prosperity and hope. It was in interest of Pakistan to join the hands of U.S on war on terror, and rightly did so.

The same thing happened to Japan in one of the old days. Japan agreed with U.S for the access to its ports (for military and trade) even though it didn't wanted to, it recieved the same threats, Japan knew that it couldn't resist against the heavy machine guns and powerful ships. Later on it was the same Japan that kicked U.S *** out of its sea ports and U.S couldn't do anything about it, because Japan prepeared itself.

If Pakistan had not agreed for fighting on the global war on terror, what would it have gotten except for bombs and *** kicked?

Now it is the time of Pakistan that it is prepearing itself. It is acquiring fighter jets, frigates, conventional submarines, nuclear submarines, training aircrafts, tanks, APCs and a lot more. It is not the old Pakistan anymore, the economy is at its height! The time will come, when Pakistan will be one of the big global powers, but its still not that time. The time will come!

Its easy to say that we will fight, but its hard to fight. Me and you are only cyber militaric war specialists, nothing more than bullocks.

The war is a total reality!

 

[Awesome]

who are you quoting up there Webby?

 

[EagleEyes]

who are you quoting up there Webby?

A Bangladeshi. (ARKhan)

Can't give you anymore information unless i have to shoot you.

 

[TexasJohn]

who are you quoting up there Webby?

Not anyone in particular I don't think Asim, but I kinda see his point - it's all about timing, timing..

 

[Awesome]

Yeah I know we can't always bet on that fortune will favor the bold. Somebody oughta ask Bush how wrong would it have been to bomb Pakistan!

Wait that doesn't matter...

 

[waz]

Like I said my dear brothers we have moved on now and Pakistan should tread its path carefully and plan ahead in order to maximise our strategic defence. Like many of you echoed it was the right choice. The thing is the white house will not be too pleased with the latest revelations as I am sure they wanted this to be kept quiet.

 

[wangrui961]

If Bush is humen?

 

[Spring Onion]

Yes waz white house wont be happy over the disclosur but it is the way it is.
Offcourse turnign our back to afghan rulers of that time was not an easy task, there was something bad from US for Pakistan and at that time it was the right decision. now its the time we had to work carefully, we need to make more frineds and negotiations and if 2mrwo we had to talk to taliban why not to make grounds for that today.

 

[Cheetah786]

So this was the secret evidence shared with Mushy to convince him.That it was osama who was involved in 9-11 attacks sounds fishy dosent it .

oh my bad i shouldnt say fishy bangaldesh might attack us and send us to stone ages

 

[blain2]

Yes waz white house wont be happy over the disclosur but it is the way it is.
Offcourse turnign our back to afghan rulers of that time was not an easy task, there was something bad from US for Pakistan and at that time it was the right decision. now its the time we had to work carefully, we need to make more frineds and negotiations and if 2mrwo we had to talk to taliban why not to make grounds for that today.

This is how bad turning our back on Afghan rulers in 2001 was:
http://nawaiwaqt.com.pk/urdu/daily/sep-2006/22/columns2.php

This is the kind of bs that I am bothered with...we have to strike the right balance and learn to say no more often.

 

[waz]

http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/200...-musharraf.html


Bush says he didn't know about threat to bomb Pakistan

Last Updated Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:39:31 EDT
CBC News


A former top Washington intelligence official has denied telling Pakistan that the U.S. would bomb it back into the Stone Age unless it co-operated with the American "war on terror" in the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.

Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf told the TV show 60 Minutes that then deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage made the threat to Pakistan's intelligence director. The show is set for broadcast on Sunday.

But Armitage told CNN that was wrong. "I didn't say it," he said, but he did make it clear that "Pakistan was either with us or it was not."

After meeting Musharraf on Friday, U.S. President George W. Bush said he was not aware of Armitage's conversation at the time, and first became aware of it when he read a newspaper story on Friday. "I don't know about it," he said.

After the Sept. 11 attacks, then Secretary of State Colin Powell told him that Musharraf understood the stakes and was willing to fight on the U.S. side, Bush told reporters.


At the same press conference, Musharraf said he couldn't talk about the Armitage conversation because he has a book deal that requires him to remain silent for several more days. "Buy the book," Bush joked.
WTF???????????

White House spokesmen said Friday that they didn't know what Armitage said to the Pakistani intelligence chief, but the U.S. had demanded Pakistan pick a side — either back America or the Taliban and al-Qaeda.

"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-Qaeda," White House advisor Dan Bartlett said on The Early Show on Friday.

"U.S. policy was not to issue bombing threats," White House press secretary Tony Snow said. "U.S. policy was to say to President Musharraf, 'We need you to make a choice.' "

Following his meeting with Musharraf, Bush will meet Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday. All three leaders are scheduled to meet Wednesday.

With files from the Associated Press

 

[waz]

At the same press conference, Musharraf said he couldn't talk about the Armitage conversation because he has a book deal that requires him to remain silent for several more days. "Buy the book," Bush joked.
WTF???????????

Do you think Mushy put some masala on the comments "you are with us or against us"? If he did that Mushy is one hustler especially with his book coming out. lol

 

[blain2]

Do you think Mushy put some masala on the comments "you are with us or against us"? If he did that Mushy is one hustler especially with his book coming out. lol

Or maybe Lt Gen Mahmud (DGISI) delivered the message to him as such...the fact of the matter is that a statement like "you are either with us or against us" exactly means that if you are not with us, your *** will get bombed back to the stone age....these fools in Washington are simply denying the semantics of the threat (which really is the meat of the matter), the underlying deal was exactly as Musharraf has stated, had Pakistan not sided with the US, there would have been a campaign of "shock and awe" of Pakistan as well.

 

[waz]

Or maybe Lt Gen Mahmud (DGISI) delivered the message to him as such...the fact of the matter is that a statement like "you are either with us or against us" exactly means that if you are not with us, your *** will get bombed back to the stone age....these fools in Washington are simply denying the semantics of the threat (which really is the meat of the matter), the underlying deal was exactly as Musharraf has stated, had Pakistan not sided with the US, there would have been a campaign of "shock and awe" of Pakistan as well.

True bro....

 

[Neo]

I think he's just about to declare this piece in his book too...

I always thought it was Colin Powell who had threatened. Turnsout Bush cleverly got AmitRAGE to do his raging bidding and that too not to Mush but to the intelligence service guys.

Bush played a game when he had the upper hand, now with Bush under fire from every second nation's leader visiting New York these days, Mush's timing was impeccable.

Will serve as a message to remind Bush that if he'd try to distant himself more secrets shall be unveiled.

Democrats hold the view that there are many secret unholy alliances between Bush and Mush that the two remain best friends despite pressure from home crowd of both nations. There might be some truth in this.

Much ado about nothing, storm in a glass of water!

When Bush said 'Either you're with us or you're against us', things were clear for us.
No third oftion was given and Imho we don't need to spell out what 'against us' means or what the concequebces would have been.

Its all a big PR game, brilliant move by Mush to go public with it. :flag: