But, seriously, it seems to be getting worse - and many of the 'old' posters that I used to rely on for thoughtful, intelligent posts and interactive conversations on issues, seem to've given up and gone?
Posted on 12/27/2007 12:16:43 PM PST by Wolfstar
Here is a link to a photo showing Benazir Bhutto moments before she was shot. (Videos on CNN show that her Toyota Land Cruiser had an armored interior. Had she remained fully within that armored protection, she likely would still be alive.) Here's what actually happened:
After the large political rally, she is shown getting into the SUV with several other people. The SUV and a black vehicle its left then drive about 50 yards, where a crowd surrounded her vehicle. She decided to stand up through the sunroof to greet the crowd. However, one or more assassins were in that crowd that stopped her vehicle as it was driving away from the rally. That's when she was shot.
This is a Getty Images photo, so I can only post a link: Photo of Bhutto just before her assassination
There are four pages of other Getty Images available of the assassination events. Here's a link: Link to Getty Images assassination photos. Warning: Some of the photos are very graphic.
One would have to be extremely naive and pretty stupid not to realize that you become an easy open target by sticking yourself out of top of a vehicle
Especially in that country ... this wasn't the first attack on her life
Isn’t it ironic that we had a Kennedy and Arlen Specter in Pakistan today, and that they were going to meet with Ms. Bhutto?
Hmmm..., I didn’t know that.
Yep...I understood your question. The answer is in our own hands.
For me, the answer is that I don't think we're prepared to do anything about it, but I'll know by (1) who the Republicans nominate, and (2) who our country elects as its next president. That's the way I'll know just how serious the American people are about dealing with Islamofacism. I'm not optimistic.
According to news reports, it was one man. He shot her first, then detonated his bomb. It was a single event.
But, seriously, it seems to be getting worse - and many of the 'old' posters that I used to rely on for thoughtful, intelligent posts and interactive conversations on issues, seem to've given up and gone?
I have no explanation for it.
Especially ture since she had expressed concern for her safety. She in effect slipped her head into the noose.
Who stood not a chance of any kind of power - but now has a shot at becoming the next Prime Minister?
Follow the money, follow the one who could most benefit - the one in the shadows
And now it's being reported that there were no gunshots, only a suicide bomber.
Once again proving the maxim: Never believe the initial press reports.
Why does it take so many people to carry things over there?
Yep...especially from a 3rd world Muslim hell-hole like Pakistan.
Grin...and so Hillary could tell us that she had her photo taken with Bhutto. ;-)
Carroll Quigley, in the course of his examination of the failure of most Latin American / South American nations-states, delivered an astonishing analysis of what he believed to be the root cause of these failures, in [his] first edition (1966) of his renowned Tragedy and Hope. Here, in almost an aside, he defines what he calls the "Pakistani-Peruvian axis" - a combination of Asian despotism and Arabic outlook (key word, that - outlook), both of which have their roots in Bronze Age antiquity, that pervade what Quigley calls the shattered cultures that dwell on its axis from Pakistan to the mountains of South America. This analysis makes [...] sense out the cultural train-wrecks that persist to this day from the Arabic East, through the southern Mediterranean and Spain to South America - and in corporate boardrooms in Paris, London and New York.
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"sons are brought up in an atmosphere of whimsical, arbitrary personal rules where they are regarded as superior beings by their mothers and sisters and, inevitably, by their father and themselves simply on the basis of their maleness. Usually they are spoiled, undisciplined, self-indulgent and unprincipled. Their whims are commands, their urges are laws"
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"As might be expected in such a society, Arabic boys grow up egocentric, self-indulgent, undisciplined, immature, and spoiled, subject to waves of emotionalism, whims, passion and pettiness."
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