We paid $10 Billion US dollars in aid to bolster a military coupe in Pakistan?

Submitted by Carole Borges on Sun, 2007/11/04 - 2:54am.

"Washington has generously backed the general {Musharaff), sending him more than $10 billion in aid since 2001, mostly for the military. Now the administration finds itself in the bind of having to publicly castigate the man it has described as one of its closest allies in fighting terrorism."
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First Russia's Putin. Now Musharaff in Pakistan. It seems another of GWB's "good friends" seems to have duped him into thinking he was pro-democracy or maybe it was just the way these Bush allies were presented to the USA, so us taxpayers would want to help them. I do not want my tax dollars going to support a government that oppresses its own people. I thought we were fighting to support freedom and democracy in the Middle East?

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Carole, This is how US

Carole,

This is how US foreign policy works.

Love,

Woodrow Wilson

True happiness is knowing you are a hypocrite. -- Ivor Cutler

Pakistan

GWB and his cronies have no interest in democracy. Iran is more of a democracy than Pakistan. His interest is in controlling people and events through whatever political system happens to be in place. We have no friends in Pakistan beyond the ruling elite [nor in Saudi Arabia, etc.] and that is not a good thing . . . Pakistan having nuclear weapons and delivery systems.

Andy Axel's picture
I do not want my tax dollars

I do not want my tax dollars going to support a government that oppresses its own people. I thought we were fighting to support freedom and democracy in the Middle East?

Your tax dollars rarely go to support democracy (the brand taught in American civics classes) anywhere, Carole.

Look up Clinton's role in supporting Peru's Fujimori or Kazakhstan's Nazarbayev or East Timor's Suharto... it's not stuff that makes the news.

____________________________

"Respect mah authoritah!" - Fred Cartman Thompson

Carole Borges's picture
Do you really mean that?

But...but...I've heard our President and Vice President say this over and over again. Surely these honorable leaders would never lie?

But, our Secretary of State

But, our Secretary of State Condi Rice now says that all aid to Pakistan is under review. Boy, that makes me get that bend over and grab your ankles feeling, because here it comes again.

R. Neal's picture
I don't know much about the

I don't know much about the situation there, but Pakistan has always seemed like a powder keg with a lit fuse.

Musharraf is probably preferable to someone like Ahmadinejad. He at least seems like more of a benevolent military dictator when he's not suspending their constitution and shutting down TV stations. From what little I know, he's been walking a tightrope trying to keep the Islamic militants happy on one side and his Western allies happy on the other while trying to stay out of a nuclear war with India.

I just hope this current situaion doesn't ignite the powder keg.

Terry Troll's picture
Mr. Neal, you mention

Mr. Neal, you mention Musharraf walking a tightrope to keep the militants and the US happy. Remember what Jim Hightower said and its implications: "The only things in the middle of the road are yellow stripes and dead armadillos."

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