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To: Just_Observing who wrote (6289)	4/1/2003 7:48:51 PM
From: Just_Observing	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21614

Fears of "Pakistan next after Iraq" April 2 2003 US sanctions on Pakistan's top nuclear research facility over alleged technology-sharing with North Korea are fuelling a popular theory that Washington plans to deal with Pakistan's weapons of mass destruction once it has finished with Iraq. "It's possible these are signals that Pakistan has to fall in line or it could be the target in the future," A. H. Nayyar, an analyst from the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, told AFP. The US announced on Monday it had slapped sanctions on AQ Khan Research Laboratories (KRL), a uranium enrichment plant near Islamabad, and North Korea, following months of claims by intelligence officials that Pakistan had supplied the Stalinist state with uranium enrichment technology for its controversial nuclear program, in exchange for missiles. US officials did not publicly link Islamabad and Pyongyang, but one Washington official said on condition of anonymity the sanctions were because of their alleged bilateral weapons trade, adding: "You connect the dots." In response to the KRL ban, The News daily wrote: "There has already been much talk of Pakistan becoming a target after Iraq. "That might be leaping to premature conclusions but Pakistan needs to be wary of the direction of its relationship with the USA." The "Pakistan next" theory has been bandied around for months in newspaper editorials, and politicians have bought into it as anti-US hostility swells among Pakistanis enraged at perceived US aggression and perceptions of ingratitude from Washington for Pakistan's pivotal war on terrorism role. Even President Pervez Musharraf gave it currency when he told businessmen on January 18 "there were chances" that Pakistan would become a target of Western forces after Iraq. "We will have to work on our own to stave off the impending danger," General Musharraf said. "Cynics would say the axis of evil includes Pakistan also," Institute of Regional Studies researcher Khalid Mahmud told AFP, referring to US President George Bush's description of Iraq, Iran and North Korea. "There are many in Pakistan who say that, after Iraq, the US will turn its attention to other countries and on the hit list are Iran, Syria, North Korea and maybe Pakistan also. "So (the KRL sanctions) may be an indicator of things to come." Mr Mahmud said the main factors feeding the "Pakistan next" theory were the combination of Pakistan's possession of weapons of mass destruction and the rise of Islamic fundamentalists. "From the beginning this nuclear program has been branded an 'Islamic bomb' which poses a direct threat to Israel," he said. "The other irritant is the rise of religious extremist forces. These two irritants could be the basis of the US aggressive posture vis-a-vis Pakistan." Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri brushed off concerns that Washington had Pakistan's nuclear program in its sights. "We are not the next target, as we are a responsible state," he told reporters. Proponents of the "Pakistan next" theory point to the policy of pre-emption embraced by Washington in its attempt to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, and its goal of eliminating weapons of mass destruction. General Musharraf is embraced by the US as a "tight" ally in its 18-month campaign against the Taliban and al-Qaeda and the ongoing hunt for fugitives from the extremist groups. But the spectre of Pakistan's home-grown extremists or fundamentalist Islamists getting their hands on its estimated 30 to 50 nuclear warheads is why the US is paying extra attention to Pakistan's nuclear program and not India's, analysts say. Fervently anti-US Islamic parties surged to power in October polls, winning control of one provincial parliament and almost one-fifth of the national parliament. Islamic militant groups continue to operate despite government efforts to stamp them out. They have executed 11 deadly attacks on Christian and Western targets in the past 18 months. smh.com.au

To: Just_Observing who wrote (6289)	4/1/2003 7:52:43 PM
From: broadstbull	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

Arnett is a self serving egomaniac. I liked the I'm sorry, wait I got fired, now I'm not sorry shuffle. All he needs is a top hat and a cane!

To: Just_Observing who wrote (6289)	4/1/2003 8:07:36 PM
From: Ron	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

Military-Industrial Complex doublespeak: (updated: WARNING- Has quotes from Dwight Eisenhower) Collateral damage: children and women with their heads split open from percussion bombs; arms mangled, legs severed, houses burned to rubble, along with charred bodies of old people, children, fathers and mothers and the family pet. Supplemental Defense Budget: Bush’s proposed $75- billion for the current war. Approximately $3375 for every man woman, and child in Iraq. Geneva Convention: What the enemy always violates, but we never do. groups.google.com Weapons of Mass Destruction: Bombs, poison gas, biological agents, stealth bombers, napalm... but not, of course, armaments sold across the globe by the world’s largest manufacturer and marketer of war materials: The USA. See also: Smokescreen for Weapons of Mass Deception: disinfopedia.org Nation Building: What George W. Bush promised he would never engage in. Regime Change: What Saddam Hussein tried to do to Bush the First. Shock and Awe: What we do to the enemy. Terrorism.: What the enemy does to us See also: Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Pearl Harbor, Tokyo incendiary bombing, Kristallnacht, My Lai , blitzkrieg, 9/11, See also Propaganda as terrorism: disinfopedia.org Peaceniks: Concerned, honest people who are braver than the Chicken Hawks in the current US administration. symbolman.com nhgazette.com tompaine.com and of course, Pope John Paul II : washingtonpost.com Politicians: Government officials who have mastered the bravery of being out of range. Also see, gullible disingenuous plutocrats: geocities.com Halliburton contracts: Viagra for the administration’s leading Chicken Hawk: Dick Cheney, and more money for that poverty-stricken clan, the Bushes: gooff.com National Guard Duty: For those poor saps who didn’t manage to get into Skull and Bones at Yale: awolbush.com "F___ Saddam. We're taking him out." An eloquent commitment of America’s military forces by an unelected president: time.com Embedded media: In-bed–with–media: Military propaganda technique, following Microsoft’s strategy of “embrace and conquer.” See: “The First Casualty” by Phillip Knightley. See also: Clear Channel Communications: prwatch.org War criminals: Persons in positions of power who send soldiers into battle without exhausting all reasonable alternatives of negotiation, economic pressure, espionage or common sense. Sound like anyone you know? Coalition of the Willing: Bribed, cajoled, intimidated and threatened nations who won’t speak out against the war, even though their citizens may oppose it : disinfopedia.org Unpatriotic dissent: “The most efficient way to keep the people in line is to limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.” -- Joseph Goebbels calvin.edu “This war is not about oil.” geocities.com God Bless America. Indeed: counterpunch.org The Defense Industry: Did not exist in the U.S. until after World War II, now by far the world’s largest. A sample of products purchased by our tax dollars: Tomahawk cruise missiles @ 1.4 million each by Raytheon- over one thousand served since mid-March. Patriot missiles @ 3.8 million each by Lockheed Martin Hot new products: The MOAB (Mother of all bombs) villagevoice.com See also: Dwight D. Eisenhower: “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. “ coursesa.matrix.msu.edu See also: The Cross of Iron Speech: “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children... This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.” -- From the 20th Century’s most distinguished general, Eisenhower. See also: 1984, George Orwell online-literature.com Animal Farm, by George Orwell k-1.com Feel frustrated? Need to do something? votetoimpeach.org uso.org doctorswithoutborders.org more on doublespeak: landru.i-link-2.net More on odd connections between the Bush family and the military/construction industry: “The ex-president’s club” guardian.co.uk