'America Lost India on March 25'--Former GOP Sen. Pressler BLASTS Bush...

[Gloria]

From the new World Media Watch up now at http://www.zianet.com/insightanalytical
Tomorrow at Buzzflash

Pressler calls Pakistan a "corrupt,absolute dictatorship" for good measure.


2//The Times of India, India IANS< Sunday, March 27, 2005 11:46:40 AM >
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1063092.cms



‘AMERICA LOST INDIA ON MARCH 25’



NEW YORK: The Bush administration's decision to sell F-16 jets to Pakistan amounts to "rejecting India at the altar" of a new relationship and was "strategically a bad move", former Senator Larry Pressler has said.

"Yesterday (March 25 when President George W Bush called Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to convey the F-16 decision) was a sad day, the day we lost India," Pressler said in an interview.

"I am bewildered by this decision. It is strategically such a bad move," he said.

He was the Republican author of the Pressler Amendment that banned military assistance to Pakistan because of its nuclear programme.

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"Pakistan has been rewarded enough. And in any case what have F-16s got to do with fighting terror?

"I am not saying this because I want a good press in India but I think we are dancing with the devil," he said.

Pressler said it was "outrageous" that neither the US media nor the Indian government and nor, for that matter, the Indian American community had raised a strong protest against the decision.

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[Kurovski]

1. "dancing with the devil"

He's catching on...

[varun]

2. So much for supporting democracy...

By supporting a dictator against the largest democracy in the world, USA has shown where its priorities lie.

[katsy]

3. bush can't even SPELL

democracy or dictator nor does he give a rats a$$.

The only thing bush worships is $. That's all he knows.

Who's he paying back for campaign cash? If lockheed martin wants to sell F16s to fucking pakistan, that's just the way it's going to be.

bush never met a corporate shill he didn't whore for.

[GetTheRightVote]

4. Tells you how badly * needs the money, he loves money a lot

:kick:

[applegrove]

5. Oh come on guys... bush doesn't know the names of the leaders.

or the proper name of the citizens... he obviously just made a mistake.... it wasn't the pakis...is was the ****** who were supposed to get the F16s?

So let me get this straight. They sell to both sides. And then they sell the people 1 Billion units of prozac so they can learn to live with it.