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Bitter, Not Sweet

Bina Shah September 11, 2002

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#76 Posted by soysauce on September 16, 2002 10:46:24 am
#70 DrDr
Please don`t be hard on the old man.
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#74 Posted by harimau on September 15, 2002 7:51:15 am
Ref Fuk`em Hakim #70
[U again? What you bitchin` about? Don`t run away now with your tail tucked between your hind legs!]
I am not running away from anything, you idiot. Except the time I am on vacation, I am here bugging the hell out of pathetic pea-brained idiots like you.
By the way, just got another bunch of books on Indian history. I should be able to quote verbatim on the wonderful behavior of your heroes such as Mahmud of Ghazni.
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#73 Posted by rsridhar on September 15, 2002 7:51:07 am
re:#45 by Karakoram
Mushy is a prized possession of Uncle Sam. After all, Mushy was educated and sanitized in record time. I read a report in intelligence.com (can`t post it here. You have to register) that said he was asked to support US unconditionally post-september 11 or face severe consequences. Our Mushy boy was offering capture of OBL as a sop but nothing short of total co-operation would have satisfied USA. Meanwhile, USA was preparing to strike at various Air Force bases (including some nuclear installations) in Pakistan if mushy said no to the offer. Mushy turned his back on a decade old Taliban policy and changed track faster than a whore can change partners. This saved his A$$ and since then he has been very co-operative on all matters and is a coveted possession of Uncle Sam. Outside, he roars like a lion but within close doors, he is worse than a whore.
Sorry for the long explanaton for the high security risk he is!
Sridhar
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#72 Posted by arjun_m on September 14, 2002 9:22:33 pm
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#71 Posted by arjun_m on September 14, 2002 9:14:06 pm
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#70 Posted by DrDr on September 14, 2002 6:39:51 pm
HaramiU
U again? What you bitchin` about? Don`t run away now with your tail tucked between your hind legs!
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#69 Posted by DrDr on September 14, 2002 6:33:06 pm
#44 arjun_m
May I? The Northern Alliance claimed as the Taleban was advancing that the US was providing satellite intelligence. You may be able to find it in the Independent or even the Dawn from 1998. Ahmed Rashid`s book narrates Pakistani official view that the US was in support of the Taleban. You may also read this from the New Republic: http://www.tnr.com/102201/soskis102201.html

Ponder this too: A ragtab bunch of madrassah students were able to control 2/3rds of the country in a week and enter Kabul. How was this possible unless they had satellite intelligence?
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#68 Posted by nasah on September 14, 2002 5:11:30 pm
Dear Bina:

what a shootout in your neighborhood! -- and what a big al Qaida CATCH for Yours-Faithfully Mr. Musharraf.

now President Mushy can Rig & Rule for EVER -- with the wink from General Bushy -- the selective Vanquisher of selective Evil.

Only -- the ``Tight got Tighter`` -- for poor Pakistani Democracy.
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#67 Posted by harimau on September 14, 2002 5:11:30 pm
Ref hari #63
[Finally I am happy that dish network has ``sun tv``. Now I can watch some quality tamil sitcoms.]
`Quality` is not generally the word one associates with anything coming out of the art field in Tamil Nadu. Since the Kodambakkam movie crowd has gotten into the production of serials, there ain`t much hope for the Tamil sitcoms. They don`t have the budget for a song-and-dance sequence otherwise the sitcoms would just be miniature Tamil movies. You know what I am talking about: leading ladies whose appearance can be described in polite terms only as `Rubenesque` (about 50 lbs overweight, this being the Sangilikkaruppans` ideal of beauty); mindless drivel passing for plot; love at first sight between boys and girls; etc. I only wish Doctor Artist Leader has the spare time to write the screenplay and dialogues for some of these like he used to for the movies but he is busy tring to parcel out Tamil Nadu between two of his sons before his death. This low drama and high comedy is being played out daily in the streets of Tamil Nadu towns and in the daily papers and constitute far better entertainment than anything you could watch on Sun TV.
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#66 Posted by arjun_m on September 14, 2002 2:38:50 pm
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#65 Posted by sadna on September 14, 2002 12:05:00 pm
Karakoram #57
``You seem very focussed with your Jihad to paint Pakistan bad``

20 years of Pakistani state policy along with still active public support and you are accusing an anonymous poster of painting Pakistan bad? Your rulers are very lucky people.

``The Americans know how much cooperation the Pakistanis have extended and I as a Pakistani am happy about these extremist elements being captured. ``

Good for you, kindly address your remarks to the author who thinks differently.
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#64 Posted by hari on September 14, 2002 9:55:24 am
Finally I am happy that dish network has ``sun tv``. Now I can watch some quality tamil sitcoms.
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#63 Posted by nasah on September 14, 2002 9:55:24 am
From the Baazeecha-e Itfaal Chowk.

````Mushy gets invited to ``Meet the press`` while ABV and the indian group are invited to ``Meet the Foreign investors`` ......Which country do you think comes out on top?
(arjun)

``my yogurt is sweeter than your your yogurt``.

``my artificial kneed PM is better than your fake named President``

`` my dad can beat up your dad``
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#62 Posted by harimau on September 14, 2002 6:42:10 am
Ref Brat #56 by Brat on September 13, 2002
[- I don`t see how these accounts explain america helping taliban]
I was trying to explain why you cannot expect cogent, logical arguments from Sangilikkaruppan. He is steeped way too much in Rationalist Thought as propagated by Doctor Artist Leader.
[- but boy was that funny!!! thank you, for quoting that - you should expand on that and write an article -- this is religion in the making in Tamil Nadu - and you are at the right time and place? to report it. It would be a hilarious article!!!!]
Thanks for the encouragement. I would need not just one article but a whole column called `Tales from Tamil Nadu` with weekly reports from Chennai to report the bizarre events that take place here. The material is plentiful. I actually spend more time reading the vernacular newspaper ``Dinamalar`` than reading the English-lanuage newspapers because the funny stuff gets reported in all seriousness in the vernacular press. I haven`t moved on to juicier dailies such as ``Our MGR`` (MGR being a former Chief Minister and a movie actor and who, upon his death, passed on the Chief Ministership to his paramour Jayalalitha), Doctor Artist Leader`s mouthpiece ``Murasoli`` (literally, ``The Drumbeat``, whose owner happens to be Maran, the nephew of the Fund of Compassion and who is now the Minister for Industries in the Central government) and quite a few others. The weirdness in Tamil Nadu is so palpable you can cut it with a knife. Even Sangilikkaruppan knows to what low level the politics of the State has sunk and that is why he usually keeps quiet when I taunt him. Let me simply say that if you understand what is happening in Tamil Nadu, all of you will vote wholeheartedly for Musharraf. And thank Jinnah for taking Pakistan out of this type of weirdness.
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#61 Posted by hxn on September 14, 2002 6:42:10 am
Bina # 52

“I want recognition for the fact that my city [Karachi] and my country [Pakistan] and its citizens [Pakistani] are pawns in this game of power politics, played by the same players that were calling the shots thirty years ago. Same game, different name.”

I hope you realize that those players are not Americans or “Zionists” or Indians, but Pakistanis themselves. Pakistan is hardly a victim.

“But take your sanctimonious, self-righteous, moral superiority and try it on someone else. It won`t work on me.”

Sums up my reaction to “victim” Pakistanis perfectly. thanks
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#60 Posted by arjun_m on September 14, 2002 6:42:10 am
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