[Reader-list] what a calculation!!!

[Jeebesh]

What a mad statement and calculation. !!!

http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report_india-felt-it-would-win-nuclear-war-with-pakistan_1293477

New York: In the event of a nuclear war with Pakistan, Indian leaders  
had predicted a bizarre victory, according to former US president Bill  
Clinton.

Indian officials had calculated that while 300 million to 500 million  
of their countrymen would die if Pakistani nukes hit India, all 120  
million Pakistanis would be annihilated in a tit-for-tat Indian  
strike, Clinton is quoted as saying in a book.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Taylor Branch's new book,  
The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President, which goes on  
sale this week, has an unguarded Clinton venting about Indian and  
Pakistani leaders' so-called willingness to threaten the death of  
millions in their standoff over nuclear arms.

"Indian officials spoke of knowing roughly how many nuclear bombs the  
Pakistanis possessed, from which they calculated that a doomsday  
nuclear volley would kill 300 [million] to 500 million Indians while  
annihilating all 120 million Pakistanis. The Indians would thus claim  
'victory'," Branch has quoted Clinton as saying.

New Delhi is likely to be furious with the observation, which portrays  
it as a government willing to play fast and loose with its citizens  
lives to notch up a bizarre win against Pakistan.

Clinton had slapped sanctions on India and Pakistan over the tit-for- 
tat nuclear tests in 1998. His successor George Bush lifted those  
sanctions after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks as a reward,  
particularly for Pakistan, for offering to support Washington's  
pursuit of Osama bin Laden.

Branch's 700-page book is the result of his access to Clinton, in 79  
sessions, during the two terms of his presidency from 1993 to 2001.

In an interview with USA Today, Branch said Clinton, who had read the  
manuscript, expressed concern about some details in the book. Branch  
said he believed Clinton "was nervous" about the book's publication  
but had not asked for changes.

The Internet is abuzz with a smashed Boris Yeltsin anecdote in the  
book. Clinton recalled getting a security alert in 1995 that the  
secret service had found a whisky-tanked Yeltsin, in his underwear,  
teetering outside Blair House on Pennsylvania Avenue and trying to  
hail a taxi.

A longtime-friend, Branch quizzes Clinton on his political passions,  
his marriage and picks at the scabs of the Monica Lewinsky affair. One  
night in August 1999, six months after Clinton had survived the Senate  
impeachment trial, Clinton told Branch the Lewinsky affair began  
because "I cracked; I just cracked.