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To: zonder who wrote (218778)	2/11/2005 12:49:02 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575173

Pakistan is not a hardcase, because they have a leader who is friendly to the U.S. Pakistan has a MILITARY DICTATOR, which I thought was a Bad Thing for Americans. His whose alliance with the US is pushing the populace towards religious fundamentalism as a reaction. There are terrorist camps in Pakistan. Musharraf has a feeble hold on what is going on in the country and the minute he is ousted, the way dictators eventually get ousted, Pakistan will probably become an overnight Islamist fundamentalist nuclear power. Oh my God......do you have to be so REAL! I've seen ole Mushie..........he looks like a real nice guy. Strong too....in a military sort of way. Their recently announce elections Oh how nice of them, wasn't it. I suppose you were talking about the municipal elections, for minor functions. The elections where women were not allowed to vote. And half of the municipal members will actually be placed in by the government. In other words, this "election" was a sham, a facade, probably suggested by their American friends so that they would look more sympathetic to the American people. There you go again. How do you expect us to stay in daNile with this kind of posting? Sure women didn't vote in the election but they didn't want to......trust me, Bush said so! ted

To: zonder who wrote (218778)	2/11/2005 12:58:16 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575173

What I really think is that Iran has not been negotiating in good faith for over 3 years now. The IAEA has caught them in boldfaced lies wrt their nuclear research. The difference between Pakistan and Iran is that Iran poses a direct threat of proliferation, whereas Pakistan has been controlled and their dictator is our ally. I don't like it that we have to ally ourselves with dictators, but a benign dictator does not pose a threat to the American people, at least in the short term. So we have to make practical tradeoffs, which means we go after the hardcases like Iran and N.K. first and use whatever allies we have in the region to help us exert pressure. This is no brainer stuff. Not sure what the dispute is.