Video: Musharraf calls Armitage’s 9/11 threat “very rude”
posted at 5:16 pm on September 25, 2006 by Allahpundit
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Whereas I call it hot. Bethany-level hot. So hot I’m almost willing to forgive Tricky Dick his complete douchebaggery in sitting silent for three years while Plamegate spun out of control.
Almost.
Musharraf’s book is out today and the Times of London has excerpts. Here’s a selection from the passage about 9/11 that made me laugh:
My decision was based on the wellbeing of my people and the best interests of my country — Pakistan always comes first. I war-gamed the United States as an adversary. There would be a violent and angry reaction if we didn’t support the United States. Thus the question was: if we do not join them, can we confront them and withstand the onslaught? The answer was no, we could not, on three counts.
Heh. I would have liked to have seen that “wargame.”
Anyway, the Armitage thing’s just a lure to get you watch the clip. The real meat here is Steve Kroft grilling the hell out of him with questions about the A.Q. Khan nuclear scandal — particularly with regards to how 18 tons of material made its way to Libya and Iran without anyone in the Pakistani military knowing about it. Priceless.
More from the book: Musharraf claims that, contrary to U.S. law, the CIA has paid Pakistan a bounty of several million dollars in exchange for 369 AQ operatives. The CIA won’t comment.
Meanwhile, since I mentioned Plamegate, journey along with Baseball Crank as he retraces left-wing hatchet hack Josh “I question the timing” Marshall’s steps in a three-year-long wild goose chase. Schmuck.
Update: “[A]ccording to the Pakistani media, Mahmoud Ahmed spoke to Musharraf on phone from the Pakistan Embassy in Washington after his meeting with Armitage the message he broadly conveyed in Urdu was ‘wo hamari eent se eent baja dey gain’. Roughly translated, it means, they will take us apart brick by brick.”
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I would love to know what Powell thinks of Dicks comment. Colin has been strangely silent on this.
DannoJyd on September 25, 2006 at 5:25 PM
Musharraf is probably telling the truth about the threat of American attack if they stood in our way, and that this threat was delivered in a very undiplomatic way.
“Realpolitik” is the applicable term, here.
It should be noted that our response to the Islamofascist escallation in their war against us that occured on 9/11/01 was restrained. Our full military power was NOT expended on Afghanistan (nor on Iraq). We did not use nuclear weapons.
Even so, the response of Syria and Libya to our takedown of Saddam indicates that our foreign enemies know and understand, now, our willingness to successfully use conventional military power to prevail.
The movement of a 2nd US carrier battlegroup (Eisenhower) with minesweeping/minelaying reinforcement to the Persian Gulf ahead of schedule should have Iran extremely concerned.
I wonder if Israel is planning a strike against Iran in October — or if we are?
georgej on September 25, 2006 at 5:39 PM
Well Georgej, you’re the fifth person I have come across who speculated the same thing about an Israeli attack in October, perhaps at the end of Ramadan. I don’t think we would attack them but Israel might.
Catie96706 on September 25, 2006 at 5:48 PM
“18 tons in your car” *LOLOLOL*
“Yes”..many trips….HAHAHAHA
Good grief.
labwrs on September 25, 2006 at 5:57 PM
Awwww. Darn. Gosh. My heart is all a-flutter…
venmax on September 25, 2006 at 6:00 PM
They moved18 tons of uranium somewhere? And what was this 18 tons of uranium contained in? Do you think they put it in plastic garbage bags? How much would the lead containers weighed? I’d bet more than the product. This had to be a very large weight.
Rusty
Rustyw on September 25, 2006 at 6:37 PM
The Kid would like to go on record as enjoying the hell out of this “Luca Brasi” diplomacy.
Kid from Brooklyn on September 25, 2006 at 6:45 PM
I don’t know what the point is of our being a superpower and a target if we’re not going to use one to offset the other. Let arm-twisting be the order of the day! I’d have our allies pay us tribute for defending them, and I’d have our enemies pay us tribute for putting us to the trouble of defense. Any truly nonaligned nation should pay us tribute for sitting on the fence instead of helping us out. Have I left anyone out?
Kralizec on September 25, 2006 at 8:45 PM
“Very rude”? Nuh-UH!!!!
honora on September 26, 2006 at 12:33 PM
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