Poor, defeated, little Bushie. Trying to fight all those enemies is bad enough. But now even his count-'em-on-one-hand allies are turning on him. First his good-buddy-President-of-Iraq goes behind his back and asks the evil-doer President of Iran for help -- and now this:President General Pervez Musharraf has blamed the West for breeding terrorism in his country by bringing in thousands of mujahideen to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan and then leaving Pakistan alone a decade later to face the armed warriors.Read more.
Musharraf told the European Parliament’s foreign affairs committee on Tuesday that Pakistan was not the intolerant, extremist country often portrayed by the West, and terrorism and extremism were not inherent in Pakistani society. “Whatever extremism or terrorism is in Pakistan is a direct fallout of the 26 years of warfare and militancy around us. It gets back to 1979 when the West, the United States and Pakistan waged a war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan,” Musharraf told EU lawmakers.
“We launched a jihad, brought in mujahideen from all over the Muslim world, the US and the West…We armed the Taliban and sent them in; we did it together. In 1989 everyone left Pakistan with 30,000 armed mujahideen who were there, and the Taliban who were there,” he said, adding that Pakistan had “paid a big price for being part of the coalition that fought the Soviet Union.”
Photo Credit: President General Pervez Musharraf. (Daily Times/Pakistan)
Let's hope the international community continues to speak truth to Washington. Georgie and the Boys sure don't listen to us. The more international leaders who condemn the policies of this administration, the better.
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