No, we’re using him in our World Court case against Ireland for violations of the Geneva Conventions against torture. 
For Musharraf or Armitage? Armitage already got one for protecting the US against Joe Wilson, didn’t he?
Not that I agree with the strong-arm tactics, but why is it the responsibility of the US gov’t to subsidize the economy of a country that wants to be “neutral” instead of a US ally? This sort of mutual back-scratching is what international relations is built on- you don’t think that these sort of favorable economic deals are granted out of altruism, do you?
Their part of the “back scratching” was allowing foreign investment it the first place. I expect the Irish were thinking in terms of a mutally beneficial economic arrangment, not of being blackmailed into cooperating with Bush’s military ventures.
Oh, well in that case, Fuck em. I have a problem with military dictatorships anyway.
The truth of the matter is that there is no good way to deal with Pakistan, just a bunch of bad choices, of which we need to select the least bad. The worst thing to do, though, would be to isolate and ostracize them-- that would turn them into a nuclear armed Iran with a population that hates the US.
Nice. Full-bodied, yet light on the palate. I give it an 88.
At one point in time when my friends and colleagues thought the Caspian Sea was a chocolate cow, there was a rumor that sometime in October, 2001, someone in the Bush Administration told the Taliban “your streets can be just as easily painted in gold as blood.”
I wonder if this might be the source of Musharraf’s recollection. After all, the Taliban has a bat-phone directly to his desk.
Yojimbo, I heard second-hand from a family member that Ireland basically turned off the meter on international calls to America for a day or two after 9/11, so folks there could call to check on their family in America for free. Is that true?
That was talked about at the time but I honestly don’t know if it’s fact. It wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest though. We take this American shit seriously.
Here’s the President’s(a head of State not a head of government) statement. She truely, as never before, spoke for the country that day
I’ve treavled the world. In Cambodia, Vermont, Quebec, Thialand, France, Vietnam, Germany and a lot of others, some fucker has said “Ah Irish, I love riverdance. I know Irish culture”
Arrrgggghh, Joyce, Yeats, Wilde, Behan, Kavanagh, Shaw, O’Casey, Heaney, U2, Geldoff, Thin Lizzy and many many more. That’s Irish Culture! That dancing cunt with his crazy feet is nothing to do with Ireland. It’s a commercial bastardisation of a silly way of dancing to begin with.
Maybe I shouldn’t post after a few gallons of Guinness 
3 posts in a row. Oh, dear.
I apoligise to the OP. Let’s get back on point.
Sorry again OP.
This post illustrates precisely why Bush is so detested by decent people.
It contains a bunch of lies and smears, and assumes that the US can do anything it likes and we all have to go along.
Tony Blair, 11/9, London
'The full horror of what has happened in the United States earlier today is now becoming clearer.
It is hard even to contemplate the utter carnage and terror which has engulfed so many innocent people
We have offered president Bush and the American people our solidarity, our profound sympathy and our prayers. But it is plain that citizens of many countries around the world, including Britain, will have been caught up in this terror.
…
This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism. We therefore, here in Britain, stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy. And we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.’
'The total number of UK troops killed in operations in Iraq has risen to 118 after a soldier died from injuries sustained in a shooting while on patrol on 5 September, 2006. ’
‘Gunner Lee Thornton died on 7 September from injuries sustained in a shooting two days earlier at Al-Qurna, north of Basra. He was transferred to a military hospital in Germany but his injuries were too severe to survive, the Ministry of Defence said.
He was serving with 58 Battery, 12 Regiment Royal Artillery.’
Would you like me to list all the remaining names of these British allies who have died for Bush’s lies about Saddam having WMDs and being responsible for 9/11?
Or would you like to apologise?
And of course our soldiers are still dying in Afghanistan too. Strangely Bush seems to have given up the hunt for Bin Laden. Perhaps he’s busy with something more important.
‘The British Army is sustaining higher casualties in Afghanistan than official figures suggest, a senior officer has suggested in an army newsletter.
In the Fusiliers’ newsletter Major John Swift, a commander in Afghanistan, said political rather than military imperatives are driving the operation.
Casualty numbers were very significant and show no signs of reducing, he said. ’
I agree. Corrado your post was out of order and dismissive of your allies. “Even” the French are in Afghanistan and were from the outset. Something conveniently forgotten when the US conservative bullshit started regarding the Iraq disaster.
You might not want to believe it, but this alleged “meme” is true. Fuck, on September 12th 2001, Yasser Arafat gave a pint of blood for the victims of 9/11. A specious gesture maybe, but that’s an indication of how the international political landscape was before your side fucked it up.
Oh shut up. You don’t actually know anything about his book deal yet. Errr, I mean his being threatened about being “bombed back to the stone age.”
Well, if this report is true, maybe he’s now trying to cover his ass for NOT cracking down on THE terrorist.
Regardless, you are still a douche, FWIW.
Who’s a douche? Am I a douche? col_10022, John Corrado? Bin Laden? Inquiring minds want to know.
Yeah, pretty much everyone listed after you. Now you know.
Even more specifically, douche was directed to the OP, not you jjimm, good soul.
Um, if you’re Irish, there’s not really any other possibility, is there?