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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-05-07 06:56 AM
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Musharaff: I'm just like Lincoln.
Musharraf and Lincoln, in Their Own Words
By Robert Mackey

As David Rohde reported in The Times today, Pakistan’s president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, speaking on Pakistani television about his decision to suspend his country’s Constitution, compared himself to Abraham Lincoln.
The general, dressed in civilian clothes, quoted from Abraham Lincoln and cited the former president’s suspension of some rights during the American Civil War as justification for his own state of emergency.
Speaking in English, General Musharraf began his discussion of Lincoln as follows:
“I would at this time venture to read out an excerpt of President Abraham Lincoln, specially to all my listeners in the United States. As an idealist, Abraham Lincoln had one consuming passion during that time of crisis, and this was to preserve the Union… towards that end, he broke laws, he violated the Constitution, he usurped arbitrary power, he trampled individual liberties. His justification was necessity and explaining his sweeping violation of Constitutional limits he wrote in a letter in 1864, and I quote, ‘My oath to preserve the Constitution imposed on me the duty of preserving by every indispensable means that government, that Nation of which the Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the Nation and yet preserve the Constitution?’”
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/musharraf-and-lincoln-in-their-own-words/
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conspirator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-05-07 07:14 AM
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1. No you are not like Lincoln, you are a corrupt mf that licks bush's balls,
cause otherwise you would be dead like Lincoln
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-05-07 07:20 AM
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2. I don't deny he probably smells like Lincolns dead carcass n/t
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BleedingHeartPatriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-05-07 07:57 AM
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3. Except Lincoln was elected and you took over in coup. And, Lincoln was not a puppet of foreign
Edited on Mon Nov-05-07 07:57 AM by BleedingHeartPatriot
masters.

BTW, exactly which states seceded from Pakistan?

Invoking Lincoln, can Bush and friends sink any lower in their pandering BS?

:puke:

MKJ
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