COALITION OF THE COERCED
US 'threatened to bomb' Pakistan

Just in case you missed it over the weekend. From the BBC:

The US threatened to bomb Pakistan "back to the stone age" unless it joined the fight against al-Qaeda, President Pervez Musharraf has said.

General Musharraf said the warning was delivered by former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage to Pakistan's intelligence director.

"I think it was a very rude remark," Gen Musharraf told CBS television.

Pakistan agreed to side with the US, but Gen Musharraf said it did so based on his country's national interest.

"One has to think and take actions in the interest of the nation, and that's what I did," he said.

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Well, by now the Bush administration has completely denied the accusation, but you've just gotta wonder. Actually, I'm not wondering at all. We have every reason to believe that the denials are total lies. I mean, my take, after all these Republican lies over the last five years, is to believe what seems to be the most reasonable assertion; that is, the White House no longer has any credibility, and I wouldn't put this bombing threat past them at all. After all, we know for sure that when Bush was cobbling together for the invasion of Iraq his "Coalition of the Willing" from third world nations, former Warsaw Pact members, and other global non-players, that they offered all kinds of diplomatic and monetary incentives. Why on earth wouldn't they use a stick as well as a carrot? Of course they used under-the-table threats to get it all together, which is why it's so utterly believable that they did the same thing in preparation for the Afghanistan invasion.

None of this comes as any surprise. These are some sick motherfuckers.

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