Partly Facetious: would Poodle agree to it?

03 Apr, 2007

"I find this strange, very strange."
"That the US Congress has gone against the wishes of the President of the US - that's true democracy at work."
"And we are the ones supposed to not have a presidential system."
"Only when we don't have two hatted presidents."
"Right, but anyway what I find strange is the Government's decision to try to get six people of Pakistani descent extradited to Pakistan in return for handing over Rashid Rauf implicated in an attempt to blow up transatlantic airlines."
"Those that Pakistan wants extradited..."
"Are from Balochistan and..."
"And after the killing of Nawab Bugti surely even Poodleland can't claim that these guys will be perfectly safe upon return to Pakistan."
"Indeed and maybe Poodle won't extradite the six..."
"Poodle has a history of not standing up to only the US - don't think the same applies to Pakistan."
"How will he be able to defend extraditing the six to who knows what fate"?
"He can do it under the law of necessity - more people will be saved from terror plots and all that if they get Rauf and..."
"That's true but I thought we were the only ones with this law of necessity..."
"Don't be facetious."
"To each country its own."
"There I agree with you."
"But don't forget Poodle proscribed the Balochistan Liberation Front last year so it may not be all that complicated to extradite these people."
"Mr Baluch, one of those whose extradition is sought by Pakistan has lived for more than 20 years in the UK, has a British passport and visits UN conferences on human rights and..."
"Why would the government want some one like that?"
"It seems to me that our government is on a course of self-destruction, not only losing friends within the country but also without the country."
"Indeed."

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