A Joke in the line of fire

After reading excerpts and reviews of Musharaff's latest book "In the line of fire", I can say that either Musharaff is himself an idiot or considers everyone else in the world to be one. Given the circumstances, I would bet on the former.

Is Musharaff so tired of playing Bush's puppy dog, that he tried to come up with something sensational to justify his own sorry existence divided between the White house and his own opposition who have joined hands to oust him. The booksellers are extremely confused whether to keep the book in the fiction or non-fiction category.

Some of the elements in the book that may well give Dan Brown a run for his money are:-

1.) Richard Armitage said that the US would bomb Pakistan back to the stone ages:

Highly improbable. I would have believed this if it came out of some de-classified intelligence file 20-30 years later. But I don't think Armitage would have said such a thing to Pakistani intelligence officers who relayed the matter to Pakistan. Mush could have done better than bring this embarrassment on himself. It implies that Pakistan caved under US pressure to allow his territory for the Afghan invasion.

2.) India got its nuclear technology from black marketing done by A.Q. Khan:

I bent head over heels laughing over this one. We went nuclear way before Pakistan did and it was a product of our scientists' hard work and research. And look who's talking? Pakistan. They 'sourced' (that is a euphemism for blatantly copied) their nuclear technology from the Chinese. The only thing Pakistani on those missiles was the green paint. They didn't even stop there. A.Q. black-marketed the technology to every unreliable country who could give it to terrorists. And though Mush says that he was unware of all this, it is impossible. The technology was sold in collusion with the Paki govt which was highly short of funds at that time.

3.) Kargil was a Pakistani military success.

Wrong. Kargil was a success of the Pakistani intelligence and failure of the Indian RAW which could not detect large scale of intrusion of militants and Pakistani soldiers. But that was just about it. Nothing more. The Indian army broke the back of their Pakistani counterparts. Even though the Pakis had high-artillery guns at high altitude strategic locations. Their logistics were impeccable, food, and ration supplies for months, while our jawans fought with almost nothing, melting snow to drink water to quench their thirst. Yet , WE WON

I am not prepared to waste 70 rupees on the pirated version of Musharaff's crap, let alone 950 rupees on the original one. The world may be reading your fiction, but We won't believe you