>It had always perplexed me that Pakistan wasn't on the Axis of Evil list. Now we know why.
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>US 'threatened to bomb' Pakistan
>"The US threatened to bomb Pakistan 'back to the stone age' unless it joined the fight against al-Qaeda, President Pervez Musharraf has said."
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5369198.stmIt may be that the U.S. really did this threat, but then again, it is also possible that Musharraf invented this, to distance himself from the U.S. without losing too much face or something.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
