[sukhoi-30mki]

Full Transcript of Musharraf Interview

http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3937054&page=1

[Ann Archy]

He’s blaming CLINTON and Elder BUSH!!

[usmcobra]

We can fix this easy, get rid of him.

[Paladin2]

Pakistan has not really ever had sovereignty over the Waziristans and should explicitly acknowledge same.

[tobyhill]

“Musharraf faulted the United States for its inconsistent support over the past 30 years, saying that the U.S. turned a blind eye to terrorism until Sept. 11.”

This must be a first, Musharraf is right but even though he’s right he could be doing a lot more.

[2111USMC]

"We had to crack down on the media because the media was creating despondency and despair in the public of Pakistan through distorting facts." "I tolerate everything. I have no problem with criticism on me. Or even the government. But if that criticism is biased and distorted, distorted by design, distorted by political design, now that is where I … get agitated."

You have to give him credit for knowing how to deal with the media. :)

[WoofDog123]

“On his country’s search for Osama bin Laden, Musharraf refused to say what he would do if he was captured, including whether he would turn Bin Laden over to the U.S. “I think the people who need to know, know it,” he said. “And I don’t think the media is the one who needs to know.””

Very refreshing comment, no matter the various possible interpretations.

[WoofDog123]

I think one thing that gets lost in the pakistan threads is that the US doesn’t have a wide range of options on who runs pakistan, AND the US is more concerned about stable secular control of the country, the army, AND THE NUKES than any platitudes about democracy, no matter what sandbagging the State Department does to the contrary.

People say Mussharaff could have done more on various topics - but what if ordering more done (or maybe he did order more done and it was ignored and we don’t know it) makes entire parts of his government just simply ignore him and/or do what they want? As far as I can tell he has been and is in a very precarious position with active forces working against him, if the multiple near-success assassination attempts are not clue enough.

I guess what I am saying is that the US isn’t going to get anyone who can replace this guy who is in overall more useful to US interests, and for the US and the West in general to be giving this guy grief about democracy is just plain stupid.

I can only hope that private contact between the US and his government is on a more realpolitikal level.

[G8 Diplomat]

Pakistan ۋﮧ۱م

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[El Gato]

"I tolerate everything. I have no problem with criticism on me. Or even the government. But if that criticism is biased and distorted, distorted by design, distorted by political design, now that is where I … get agitated."

I think most FReepers can relate to that.

[Texas Eagle]

If there's a failure, it's not Pakistan's failure," Musharraf responded...

Who writes Musharraf's stuff? Ray Nagin?

[RightWhale]

He’s right, but the USA shouldn’t bear the entire burden. What is Iran doing to eliminate terrorism in Pakistan and Afghanistan? What about China and Russia, it’s their turf.