09-15-2007, 02:31 PM
[center]<b><span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'>Banana republic</span></b> <!--emo&:flush--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/Flush.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='Flush.gif' /><!--endemo-->[/center]
WE have a prime minister of Pakistan who says he will ânot allow anyone to tarnish the image of Saudi Arabiaâ, a federal government that deports its own citizen (not to mention an ex-PM) despite a Supreme Court ruling, and a provincial government that domestically deports another citizen already on its soil from its largest city. <b>President Musharraf should immediately pass a decree <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>renaming the country the Islamic Republic of Bananas,</span> <!--emo&:bhappy--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/b_woot.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='b_woot.gif' /><!--endemo--> and should <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>appoint himself banana -in-chief</span> <!--emo&:bcow--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/b_cowboy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='b_cowboy.gif' /><!--endemo--> for the next five years.</b> It would be perfectly in keeping with the traditions this government is setting.
<b>OSMAN KHALID
Lahore</b>
Cheers <!--emo&:beer--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cheers.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='cheers.gif' /><!--endemo-->