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Thursday, December 27, 2007 12:00 AM

Benazir Bhutto casts a shadow over Iowa

The assassination in Pakistan had the candidates responding to the real world -- ever so briefly.

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Saturday, December 29, 2007 12:45 AM

WE TOO HAVE LOST A GOOD DEMOCRAT

Its all a badtime for PAKISTAN now,only god is the right ruler for all those living in it!We have lost a very determined politician who was very close to fullfill her dream of seeing her country on the top, but due to inco-operation of her own people, a day that no one ever wished to see has come.PAKISTAN might have lost a good democrat on 27-12-2007 but INDIA helplessly lost a good democrat on 21-06-1953,a day when god gifted a lamp to light pakistan's dark world,by making BENAZIR BHUTTO A NATIVE OF IT!

MAY GOD REST HER SOUL IN PEACE.....

AND THIS IS POSSIBLE WHEN PAK IS IN SAFE HANDS!

Friday, December 28, 2007 09:26 AM

HEY THERE, IS THAT GRAIN I SEE DRIBBLING FROM YER FOUL YAP?

MEALY-MOUTHED HYPOCRITE politicians from both repugnicant-repub fudge pachyderm and Democratic sides TOOK FULL ADVANTAGE of the TRAGIC MURDER of Benazir Bhutto at the hands of an agent of Pervez Musharraf's dictatorship, and WAGGED THEIR DESPICABLE TONGUES IN A EXCREABLE DISPLAY OF FOUL FALSE SYMPATHY IN AN UNPRINCIPLED, DESPICABLE RUSH TO EXPLOIT THE DEATH OF A NOTABLE INDIVIDUAL FOR THEIR OWN ENDS AND PROFIT, i.e., TO GET VOTES BY SHOWING THEIR MARSHMALLOW SELVES AS "TOUGH ON TERRORISM" OR THE SOUL OF COMPASSION OR WISDOM IN DEALING WITH THE RAMIFICATIONS OF TERRORISM AND SECURITY! The repugnicant-repub fudge-pachyderms were the most prominent offenders, from Giuliani to Thompson to Romney to McPAIN(who acted holier-than-thou but fooled nobody, especially myself!), DRIBBLING GRAIN FROM THEIR FOUL YAPS IN THEIR HYPOCRITICAL MUTTERINGS!

Friday, December 28, 2007 08:37 AM

Lift

I wish Clinton had a bit more lift in her speech making. But she is by far the best in the entire field of candidates to serve as President. A President is far more than a speech maker, and one or two big hits in giving speeches is not a qualification to be President. Four or eight years of solid progress would be plenty inspiring.

Friday, December 28, 2007 07:24 AM

Assassinations

Americans no doubt will shrug their shoulders at this terrible event. They will consider it just one more death, death and dying are getting to be a daily reminder of the crisis we all face.

It was this administration who said that political assassinations should be legal.

Death is part of living and lives are cheap....

Thursday, December 27, 2007 07:19 PM

They've had 'democracy' of a sorts before

It didn't end well. If you live in a culture that thrives on chopping of your enemies heads, you're bound to elect leaders who promise to chop off your enemies heads too. Maybe it's just me but none of the candidates addressed the simple sad fact that Pakistan is no ready for 'democracy' than democracy is ready for Pakistan. You folks assume that when you hold a ballot everyone will automatically elect Swarthy Al Gore James Madison III.

But not even Americans did that. Twice. Not even we could muster the interest or the functioning institutions to do that. And all of a sudden you're screaming that there's some external dark plot to stay their hand from that?

Ever been to Algergia? They elected al Qaeda in. Ever been to Gaza? They elected the Hamas in. It's a better than even shot that if and when Pakistan has elections or what goes for elections, they'll elect a bunch of wild eyed fanatical quislings too.

Thursday, December 27, 2007 06:30 PM

A Dying Pakistan

It's unfortunate that Bhutto's assassination doesn't bring out even a simple awareness among candidates that Pakistan's institutional failures, abetted by American funding that's never targeted (indeed, has actually exacerbated) those weaknesses, don't merit attention. Thundering about terrorists and a war against them does nothing to bolster the oppressed and genuinely civil society that's currently breaking under the weight of Musharraf's boot. It's perplexing, frankly, that none of those running for the presidency--never mind the incumbent--can see this. It's as if, to bolster this war on terror, our so-called elite can't hurry fast enough to complete the destruction of civil society, both here and abroad.

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