Does any thinking person really believe that the dictator of Pakistan is able to make ANY political or military decision without the approval, if not the actual direction of the US Government?

The answer is so damned obvious as to be childish. No, he can’t, because money talks very loudly. The 700 MILLION dollars in economic and military assistance the US gave to General Pervez Musharraf this year alone is most definitely not an altruistic gift that comes without strings.

The 800 million dollars scheduled to reach the Pakistani government in 2008 will continue the guarantee that Pakistan will continue to do exactly what the Bush administration. Musharraf would not last a day I office without US aid and protection. Not a single day....

...Could the events in Pakistan be a testing ground for what Bushco might be planning in the US to avoid the consequences of fair and democratic elections here in 2008?

Understand that none of Musharraf’s actions could have been implemented without the approval of the Bush administration. Understand as well that Condy Rice has announced that these actions will not mean the discontinuation of aid to the government of Pakistan.

Full article: http://tvnewslies.org/blog/?p=668

It has been revealed that none other than John "Deathsquads" Negroponte has been n Pakistan, since Sept. 12th, "for a long-term strategic dialogue."

So, if we can't really concretely pin anything else on Bushco. at this point (not yet), can we at least say that Negroponte would have had an idea this was coming and would've kept Bushco. apprised?

http://archive.gulfnews.com/indepth/bhutto/more_stories/10153166.html

If the U.S. really wants political democracy in Pakistan it should've supported the return of Nawaz Sharif (a moderate Muslim who believes in the political democracy process). The Pakistan Supreme Court had ruled that Sharif could return, but he was arrested by the government at the airport.

Now that Bhutto is dead

quote:

Bhutto's aides said they doubted militant commander Baitullah Mehsud was behind the attack on the opposition leader and said the government's claim that she died when she hit her head on the sunroof of her vehicle was "dangerous nonsense."

Cheema said the government's account was based on "nothing but the facts"

from TPM Kind'a Rovian no?

This is nothing new, its been going on for Hundreds of Years.

read; WAR IS A RACKET, by Smudley Butler.

The shortest book I ever read. Smudley Butler was a Major general in the USMC. In a book with only 27 pages, Butler details his 33 years in the USMC. He retired in 1935, and only then did he start to relize what he had done.

Starting in 1898 the USMC regularly Invaded countries in central and south america. American Indian uprisings, China-Boxer rebellion, philipines, most Carribean Islands...supressing rebellions by the peasants and putting in Dictators. Behind the marines came legions of USA bussiness ready to set up plantations, dig Oil wells and stake out mining claims. When the peasants started to organize, Butlers Marines would return to protect US interests, enforce slave labor conditions, and put down Union protests, Labor strikes and rebellion.

Butlers famous statement; "Al Capone is a boy scout compared to US"

I used to think the Hippy`s made up all this CRAP, but ovioulsy it true.

Add Pakistan to the List, who`s not on the LIST of USA BushCO controll..