I swear the fiscal support Rumsfeld started of Musharraf of Pakistan in gaining 'air space' after September 11, 2001 is a treasonist act against the USA. Pakistan has sold out to China munition suppliers in attempt to 'conquer' Kashmir. The very last place on Earth we needed to escalate violence in hopes of stabilizing Afghanistan was Kashmir. Did Musharraf 'back off' his push to domination? No. Why should he when he gets pats on the back from Rummy? Then the Taliban took refuge in Pakistan to regroup and reenter Afghanistan.
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What was that?
And then there is the still 'at large' Osama bin Laden. Hm. I bet it's a tough climb up that mountain to stop an old ally, huh, Mushy?
Why do I find elections in Pakistan vital to returning benevolent government under Butto? Go figure, huh?
Musharraf rules out Pak-US joint action against terrorists
WASHINGTON: President General Pervez Musharraf has rejected "absolutely and totally" the prospect of a joint US-Pakistan military operation to pursue retreating insurgents inside Pakistan.
"The whole population of Pakistan will rise against it," he told CBS news channel in an interview.
Musharraf hit out at his Afghan counterpart, saying he was "very angry" at criticism of Pakistani progress in fighting cross-border terrorism.
"Pakistan is being maligned by the West unfairly" in criticism that it is not doing enough to root out terrorists on its soil and to help crush the Taliban movement in Afghanistan, he said.
Musharraf said the criticism on a "total lack of understanding of the environment and reality by President Hamid Karzai himself."
Asked if he was "angry" with Afghanistan’s US-backed leader, he replied: "Yes, indeed. Very angry."
Musharraf dismissed as "absolute nonsense" a claim by Karzai that the wanted Taliban leader Mullah Omar a close ally of Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden was hiding out in Pakistan.
Musharraf said on Thursday that tribesmen in the South Waziristan tribal area had killed 300 foreign militants of the Al-Qaeda network, with help from the Pakistani military.
But he rejected "absolutely and totally" the prospect of a joint US-Pakistan military operation to pursue retreating insurgents inside Pakistan.
"The whole population of Pakistan will rise against it," he added.
