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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 03:47 AM Original message |
Report: U.S. to Pour 750 Million (Aid) Into Pakistan's Tribal Areas |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 03:51 AM Response to Original message |
1. Those tribesmen will smile, take the money, and laugh behind their hands at us. |
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Botany (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 04:07 AM Response to Original message |
2. Some Goat Farmer's House to be |
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sam sarrha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 04:22 AM Response to Original message |
3. that is why the chimp is cutting finds to poor and crippled children's aid and other social programs |
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sam sarrha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 04:23 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. bribe money for Muscharif.. he is in a bit of a spot himself now |
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saigon68 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 08:11 AM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Poor Seniors in US go without medicine |
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Hubert Flottz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 04:59 AM Response to Original message |
5. Bush gave the Taliban in Afghanistan several million shortly... |
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trof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 06:13 AM Response to Original message |
6. And we're paying Paki Army border troops $100 mil a month. |
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formercia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 07:31 AM Response to Original message |
7. The ISI will take their 50% cut. |
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Drum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 08:44 AM Response to Original message |
9. But, but...I don't WANT to pour my $ on that fire! |
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ProgressiveEconomist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 09:13 AM Response to Original message |
10. If Musharraf falls to a Muslim fundie, there could be more reason to fear nuke attacks |
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Coventina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 09:15 AM Response to Original message |
11. This is exactly what the Roman Empire did with the Picts |
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conspirator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 09:17 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Yeap. they will gladly accept the food and bite the US hand n/t |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 09:22 AM Response to Original message |
13. Who shall be given the aid? Easy-- Benazhir Bhutto |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 09:43 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Her hands aren't so clean, from what I understand. |
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maxsolomon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 10:43 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. no one's hands are "clean" in pakistan |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 10:46 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. True, good point. |
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Tempest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 11:16 AM Response to Reply #13 |
18. She's as corrupt as the rest of them - the money would end up in foreign banks |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 01:03 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. You mean she did what Bush and Cheney are doing? |
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Joanne98 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 09:44 AM Response to Original message |
15. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr |
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Megahurtz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 07:09 PM Response to Original message |
20. Yet They Will Not |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 07:55 PM Response to Original message |
21. Money wasted down the drain! |
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tom_paine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 04:22 AM Response to Original message |
22. Sounds like a "payoff". I wonder how much of that brown envelope of cash is for Bin Laden |
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