In this country as in Pakistan, the only way there can be an orderly transfer of power is when the money interest, either corporations or political dynasties, have given their OK for the new leader.

There are a lot of really naive people here in the United States who believe that Hillary or Obama or Edwards, or whoever, is going to change things in Washington when elected. They will of course change a few things. But none of them will dare break the corporate hold on the American government. That will not be allowed to happen.

There are a lot of really sincere people in Pakistan who are also apparently naive. There will be no democracy in Pakistan because a true democracy would only last long enough for a religious fundamentalist Islamic regime to take control and establish Sharia law.

So all this complete bullshit you may be seeing on CNN this afternoon about oh how terrible it is that Bhutto ate the bullet, but the truth is, it was probably the CIA that had a hand in killing her.

The corporatists in the United States have no reason for growing real democracies anywhere in the world. The corporatists want mock democracies with totally compliant leaders who will do the will of the United States. As soon as someone dares try to get American clutches off their country, WHAM! They eat the bullet.

Bhutto's death, while horrifying and barbaric, means absolutely nothing except to those who can make some political hay out of this. Start with Giuliani who wasted no time today trotting out 9/11 yet again. And then there is Bush, that sanctimonious hypocrite, who "condemned" the killing and made the completely irrelevant call that her killers be "brought to justice."

Isn't that a laugh? Her killer was Musharrif, with no small amount of meddling by our CIA.

Bush and his "brought to justice" thing is just such a howler that I wonder how he can stand there with a straight face and say that without peeing in his pants to keep from laughing out loud.

Wasn't that John Belushi's character name in "Animal House"?

I already did.

And we still ain't got no goddamn democracy.

How about you? Are you willing to take a bullet for democracy? No? I didn't think so.

"Rest in peace sister?" Yeech. She was just another power-hungry elitist looking to horn in and then cash in. The first thing she would have done once in power would be to arrest Musharraf and all his cronies, and hang them all at midnight. Then she would install her own cronies and start raking in the loot.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Only she wore lipstick. I've heard about lipstick lesbians, now we almost had a lipstick fascist.

I don't care if the bitch is dead. It's no big whoop. I don't know what all the excitement is about.