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Flintstone's Diplomacy? - 9/22/2006 6:23:24 PM

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Bush 'taken aback' by Musharraf comment

By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer1 hour, 53 minutes ago

President Bush said Friday that if a U.S. official tried to strong-arm Pakistan into fighting the war on terror after the Sept. 11 attacks, he didn't know about it.

Standing beside Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, Bush brushed off any idea of disagreement, praising Musharraf for pursuing terrorists, including Osama bin Laden.

"We're on the hunt together," Bush said after an Oval Office meeting with the general who is leader of the world's second-largest Islamic nation.

Musharraf has contended that after the Sept. 11 attacks, then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage told Pakistan's intelligence director that the United States would bomb the country if it didn't become a partner in the war against terrorism.

"The intelligence director told me that (Armitage) said, "Be prepared to go back to the Stone Age,'" Musharraf told CBS' "60 Minutes" in a report to air on Sunday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060922/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush;_ylt=As12AH6KFBsD3IpKLgBM5zys0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3b2NibDltBHNlYwM3MTY-

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RE: Flintstone's Diplomacy? - 9/22/2006 6:41:39 PM

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well, if it were true, and I were in charge of the Pakistani defence and intelligence services, here's what I'd do, having been threatened like that and not being too wont to submit to bullies;

I'd give every possible impression that I was trying to stop the Taliban, trying to stop AQ, and trying to locate OBL - all the while sheltering them as fellow Muslims under threat from the same bully.

Strange how events might suggest some grounds to that

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RE: Flintstone's Diplomacy? - 9/22/2006 8:03:04 PM

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ahhh, but Ellen, that's a prescription to live in the Stone Age again ....

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