“Coalition of the Coerced!”

Turns out it may have been a “Coalition of the Coerced!”
Bush offers authoritative denial to quell fears that he's not really in charge:
"Who Me? I'm shocked! Shocked! I just don't know about it!" ​

Bush 'Taken Aback' by Musharraf Comment
By DEB RIECHMANN
Associated Press Writer
Sep 22, 5:31 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush said Friday that if a U.S. official tried to strong-arm Pakistan into fighting the war on terror after the Sept. 11 attacks, he didn't know about it.

Standing beside Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, Bush brushed off any idea of disagreement, praising Musharraf for pursuing terrorists, including Osama bin Laden.

"We're on the hunt together," Bush said after an Oval Office meeting with the general who is leader of the world's second-largest Islamic nation.

Musharraf has contended that after the Sept. 11 attacks, then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage told Pakistan's intelligence director that the United States would bomb the country if it didn't become a partner in the war against terrorism.

"The intelligence director told me that (Armitage) said, "Be prepared to go back to the Stone Age,'" Musharraf told CBS' "60 Minutes" in a report to air on Sunday.

The president said he first learned of the purported conversation from news reports. "I just don't know about it," he said. "I guess I was taken aback by the harshness of the words." Read More Here
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Side Note: LOL - "We're on the hunt together," (Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, must have thought to himself: "I wonder if the Vice President going to be hunting along with us?") <lol>

Humorous pic: Check out the New Dubbya’ Doo!!

 

...but before you bomb us, allow me to pimp my book.

http://today.reuters.com/news/artic...0_BUSH-PAKISTAN-UPDATE-3.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna

Everyone talks behind everyone else's back; not sure why the White House should be exempt from that.

 

>> Everyone talks behind everyone else's back; not sure why the White House should be exempt from that. star17 <<

Yes, it always sucks when some unctuous weasel makes up stories and does things behind the scenes and/or behind your back; simply because they have some hidden agenda and they are too cowardly to confront directly whatever problem they have with you.

Good Luck!

 

OOh Ooh my "spidey" senses are tingling

 

Always had suspicions that my office enviroment protocol handbook was penned at the White House!

Mind you, our government must have got their hands on the Beta version....

 

Only type of person more annoying than that is someone that turns out be an ass-kissing suck-up.

 

LOL

 

>> Only type of person more annoying than that is someone that turns out be an ass-kissing suck-up. Star 17 <<

Good point... No argument here:

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=43780&stc=1&d=1159119804​