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The U.S. threatened to bomb Pakistan "back to the Stone Age" after the Sept. 11 attacks if the country refused to help America with its war on terrorism, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf says. In an interview with CBS's 60 Minutes, the Pakistani leader said the threat came from then-deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage. Musharraf said it was delivered to Musharraf's intelligence director. "The intelligence director told me that [Armitage] said, 'Be prepared to be bombed. Be prepared to go back to the Stone Age,' " Musharraf said.

"I think it was a very rude remark."

But Musharraf said he reacted to the threat in a responsible way.

"One has to think and take actions in the interests of the nation, and that's what I did."

Pakistan was a strong supporter of Afghanistan's former Taliban regime, but switched sides after the Sept. 11 attacks. Musharraf also said the U.S. made some demands that were "ludicrous," including one to suppress vocal support in his country for terrorism in the U.S.

"If somebody's expressing views, we cannot curb the expression of views," Musharraf said.

He said he was also irked that the U.S. wanted Pakistan to turn over border posts and bases for the U.S. military to use against the Taliban in Afghanistan.


So the US bullied Pakistan into helping them, nice. And they demanded that they curb free speech! Who's got the moral high ground again Bush?

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That does not shock me at all. Bush will either have you or you suffer.

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The guy is the biggest school yard bully since the Simpsons Nelson. Seriously he made Saddam out to be this larger than life monster yet Bush himself is now responsable for more torture and death than Saddam ever was. I hope in ten years we see him up in front of the ICC at The Hague on war crimes charges, him and his whole administration minus Colin Powell.

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