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'A Wrong Must Be Righted' [ An interview with Benazir Bhutto ]
Parade magazine ^ | 12/27/07 | Gail Sheehy

Posted on 12/28/2007 8:57:43 AM PST by bjs1779

What would you like to tell President Bush? I ask this riddle of a woman.

She would tell him, she replies, that propping up Musharraf’s government, which is infested with radical Islamists, is only hastening disaster.

“I would say, ‘Your policy of supporting dictatorship is breaking up my country.’ I now think al-Qaeda can be marching on Islamabad in two to four years.”

(Excerpt) Read more at parade.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhutto; bolton; parademagazine

1 posted on 12/28/2007 8:57:46 AM PST by bjs1779
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To: bjs1779

Who was Prime Minister when Pakistan went nuclear?


2 posted on 12/28/2007 9:03:25 AM PST by rhombus
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To: rhombus
 ZIA was president.

 

3 posted on 12/28/2007 9:09:52 AM PST by HawaiianGecko (There are scandals that need to be addressed. Republicans address them, Democrats re-elect them.)
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To: HawaiianGecko

And Prime Minister?


4 posted on 12/28/2007 9:17:02 AM PST by rhombus
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To: bjs1779

Gail Sheehy, that DNC operative, is spreading lies.


5 posted on 12/28/2007 9:24:49 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: KC_Conspirator

It seems extremely naive to just say don’t support this dictatorship. I understand the Bush doctrine but one has to pick and chose one’s battles.


6 posted on 12/28/2007 9:32:25 AM PST by rhombus
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To: bjs1779
I realize that this is a terrible tragedy but does her assassination somehow mitigate the fact that she had lost her office not once but twice because of corruption. I don’t know how she has obtained such a hero status in light of those facts??
7 posted on 12/28/2007 9:34:00 AM PST by kublia khan (Absolute war brings total victory)
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To: rhombus

Well, there are a few articles, like the one in the NY Post, which are telling the truth about Bhutto. She knew how to play liberal idiots like Sheehy, and say that she was the answer and Musharraf was the problem. The truth is that Bhutto was a thieving oligarch, whose family was corrupt and did very little for Pakistan when they were in power. The actual problem in Pakistan is not the government, but the islamofascist people who want sharia law.


8 posted on 12/28/2007 9:36:15 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: bjs1779

Well, to my mind, a democratic government headed by Bhutto would fall prey to al Quaida much more quickly than Musharraf’s military dictatorship.


9 posted on 12/28/2007 9:36:49 AM PST by Antoninus (Ignore the polls. Vote your values. Elect conservatives.)
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To: rhombus
 Muhammad Khan Junejo was the PM.  You can't manage Google?

 

10 posted on 12/28/2007 9:38:07 AM PST by HawaiianGecko (There are scandals that need to be addressed. Republicans address them, Democrats re-elect them.)
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To: HawaiianGecko

I really tried... got lost in reading about how Zia came to power. Thanks for the help.


11 posted on 12/28/2007 10:03:52 AM PST by rhombus
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To: KC_Conspirator

“the problem”

Is the nest of terrorists in no man’s land between Pakinstan and Afganistan.
Untill Bush and Mussaffeff get serious about cleaning out that viper den, these murders will continue.


12 posted on 12/28/2007 11:15:41 AM PST by tennmountainman
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Untill Bush and Mussaffeff get serious about cleaning out that viper den, these murders will continue.

I think she should of stayed in exile. She had nothing to gain by doing what she did. Several attempts were already made on her life in just a few months. Maybe she truly did care. I have no explanation.

13 posted on 12/28/2007 5:38:30 PM PST by bjs1779
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To: Antoninus
Well, to my mind, a democratic government headed by Bhutto would fall prey to al Quaida much more quickly than Musharraf’s military dictatorship.

Now if that was true, why did encourage her to run for PM?

14 posted on 12/28/2007 5:41:59 PM PST by bjs1779
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“Maybe she truly did care. I have no explanation”

Do you believe the viper den on the border would just go away, if she chose not to come?

Her presence in her country only exposed again how the terrorist on the border are still operating at full strength.

Until those vipers are exterminated, instability will grow.


15 posted on 12/28/2007 7:12:50 PM PST by tennmountainman
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To: tennmountainman

One thing for sure, she was pretty good looking!


16 posted on 12/28/2007 7:33:23 PM PST by bjs1779
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