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US warns that Pakistan needs $5bn urgently to avoid collapse
telegraph,co,uk ^
| feb 24 3009
Posted on 02/25/2009 4:19:17 PM PST by blueyon
The United States and Europe must give Pakistan up to $5bn (£3.5bn) in urgent aid or risk seeing the nuclear-armed country slip into chaos, two leading US foreign policy voices warned Tuesday.
Democrat Senator John Kerry and Republican former senator Chuck Hagel, now chair of the Atlantic Council think tank, were due to release a formal report on Wednesday appealing for international help to stabilise Pakistan.
"If we fail, we face a truly frightening prospect: Terrorist sanctuary, economic meltdown, and spiralling radicalism, all in a nation with 170 million inhabitants and a full arsenal of nuclear weapons," Mr Kerry said in a statement released by the council.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bailout; economy; nuke; obama
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"Mr Kerry, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he and Republican Senator Richard Lugar would soon introduce legislation aiming to provide Pakistan with $7.5bn in non-military aid over five years."
OK we just had a HUGH bail out (Stimulus) then the House stuck it to us and I hear next week the Senate will do the same (stick it to us). And now Kerry and Lugar want us (you know no other country will "give aid")to pay another 7.5 billion. What are they thinking? Where is all this money coming from? Did I miss something, Is there a money tree I do not know about?
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posted on
02/25/2009 4:19:18 PM PST
by
blueyon
To: blueyon
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posted on
02/25/2009 4:20:42 PM PST
by
sam_paine
(X .................................)
To: blueyon
"Horse S--t!"
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posted on
02/25/2009 4:20:45 PM PST
by
xcamel
(The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
To: blueyon
wow. dems just gave acorn nearly that much for the same reason.
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posted on
02/25/2009 4:21:09 PM PST
by
sappy
To: xcamel
c’mon, don’t mince the words or sugar coat them...just say it!
HORSESHIT
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posted on
02/25/2009 4:21:34 PM PST
by
Gaffer
To: blueyon
Pakistan needs $5bn urgently to avoid collapseGive us the nukes before we even discuss money.....
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posted on
02/25/2009 4:21:41 PM PST
by
SteamShovel
(Global Warming, the New Patriotism)
To: xcamel
That’s fitting, since it’s coming out of a horse’s...face.
To: blueyon
I say, call their Saudi brothers in the religion of death.
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posted on
02/25/2009 4:22:16 PM PST
by
wac3rd
(In the end, we all are Conservative, some just need their lives jolted to realize that fact.)
To: blueyon
And just what will 5 billion do to change this situation?
Pull your head out Washinton. We are heading for war. save the money for our troops.
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posted on
02/25/2009 4:22:19 PM PST
by
refermech
To: blueyon
So I went to my brother to ask for a loan, but he was busted.
To: blueyon
How about we buy their nukes for $5bn?
To: blueyon
S#!T,I'll bet that can be found picking up fallen change in the bathroom!!!
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posted on
02/25/2009 4:24:09 PM PST
by
razbinn
(I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,and to the republic for which it ...)
To: blueyon
"If we fail, we face a truly frightening prospect: Terrorist sanctuary, economic meltdown, and spiralling radicalism Mr Kerry should have thought of that regarding some other far east country some 40 years ago ... ya know, the one where he won three (count 'em THREE!) Purple Hearts?
To: blueyon
WTF is another 5 bil to the great 0bamacon. He can get his tax cheater Treasury Secretary to print that right up.
To: blueyon
Screw it.
We have a terrorist in the White House - let the Paks take care of their own.
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posted on
02/25/2009 4:26:20 PM PST
by
grobdriver
(Let the embeds check the bodies!)
To: blueyon
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posted on
02/25/2009 4:27:45 PM PST
by
DB
To: 31R1O; PapaBear3625; publana; RadioCirca1970; TheBlueMax; WLR; iThinkBig; bayouranger; ...
Pakistan ۋﮧ۱م
FReepmail if you want on or off
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posted on
02/25/2009 4:28:15 PM PST
by
G8 Diplomat
(I'm learning Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Pashtu, and Russian so someday you won't have to)
To: refermech
hussein is dismantling the Military and there will be few troops left... now there will be that well armed and well equipped civilian police force hussien promised soros.
LLS
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posted on
02/25/2009 4:28:25 PM PST
by
LibLieSlayer
(hussein will NEVER be my president... NEVER!)
To: blueyon
feb 24 3009
Relax, folks...we've got plenty of time.
Seriously, though, this is getting so bloody ridiculous. Do these congressional simpletons realize that this money they are spending has to be produced by the private sector, a sector that is contracting due to a slumping economy? In other words, they are making promises they may not be able to keep. This is like sitting in the passenger seat while the drunk behind the wheel floors the gas pedal and says, "Watch this!"
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posted on
02/25/2009 4:28:29 PM PST
by
LostInBayport
(When more than 98% of the Republicans on Capitol Hill vote against a bill, it is not bipartisan.)
To: SteamShovel
“Give us the nukes...”
They probably will if we don’t.
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posted on
02/25/2009 4:29:12 PM PST
by
Semper Mark
(Communism is Socialism with a gun to your head.)
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