Breaking: Gen. Clark Responds to Latest Obama Attack

Time does not always “heal all wounds.” What I don’t hear is any context.

As soon as Daoud came to power, he began a crackdown against the Islamist movements, forcing those who were not arrested to flee to Pakistan. From here they organised the resistance movement, aided by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who feared Daoud’s revival of the Pashtunistan issue.

Massoud ordered a retreat from Kabul on April 7th, 1996 after another round of intense bombardment from the Taliban and its Pakistani supporters in the ISI.

In 1998, the CIA, a long time aide of Massoud, offered Afghanistan’s anti-Taliban opposition leader a substantial bounty for the capture of Osama bin Laden, dead or alive. [4] The claim was further supported by former US president Bill Clinton in an interview with New York Times in 2001. Clinton said, “At the time, we did everything we can do … I authorised the arrest and, if necessary, the killing of Osama bin Laden, and we actually made contact with a group in Afghanistan to do it.”

obama isn’t ready for foreign policy, he doesn’t have the instincts. bush didn’t either, but he knew it, and used career diplomats to tell him how to respond. obama’s ego won’t allow that. too bad.

Susan,
First rate work and research. Bury them with facts. Obama is an attractive but empty suit.

I found the article.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0CE5D91F30F93AA35752C0A96E958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=7
Ms. Bhutto described the investigation as a persecution. At one point she attacked the Clinton Administration, saying it had ignored her plight while deploring the treatment of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese opposition leader and Nobel laureate.

At last! A reasonably realistic, non-hagiographic obituary for Benazir Bhutto from John Burns (though he carefully refrains from mentioning that she was a sponsor of the Taliban):

“A deeply polarizing figure, the self-styled “daughter of Pakistan” was twice elected prime minister and twice expelled from office amid a swirl of corruption charges…”

“The younger of Ms. Bhutto’s two brothers, Shahnawaz, died mysteriously of poisoning in 1985, in an apartment owned by the Bhuttos in Cannes, France. French investigators said they suspected that a family feud over a multimillion-dollar inheritance from Zulfikar Bhutto was involved, but no charges were filed.

“Ms. Bhutto’s other brother, Murtaza, who along with Shahnawaz founded a terrorist group that sought to topple General Zia, spent years in exile in Syria beginning in the 1980s. When Murtaza finally returned to Pakistan, in 1994, he quickly fell into a bitter dispute with Ms. Bhutto over the family’s political legacy — and, he told a reporter at the time, over the money he said his father had placed in a Swiss bank when he was prime minister. In 1996, Murtaza was gunned down outside his home in Karachi, and his widow, Ghinva, blamed Asif Ali Zardari, Ms. Bhutto’s husband. Ms. Bhutto’s Iranian-born mother, Nusrat, sided in the dispute with Murtaza, and was dismissed by Ms. Bhutto as the Peoples Party chairman. ‘I had no idea I had nourished a viper in my breast,’ she said of her daughter at the time.”

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“But on both occasions, she was dismissed, under pressure from the military on charges of corruption and incompetent governance”

So, Musharraf’s Army says she is corrupt, such must be the case!

“Ms. Bhutto was a politician who presented herself on public platforms as the standard-bearer for Pakistan’s impoverished masses, for civil liberties and for an unfettered democracy.”

As opposed to others who have paved a golden road to these objectives before or since?

“But she made enemies with her imperious and impulsive manner as prime minister in dealing with government officials, diplomats and reporters, and by what her critics described as an instinct for political vindictiveness.”

She didn’t know a woman’s place in society, she refused to be meek.

She didn’t deal well with reporters, or were they stenographers, let’s examine particular individual claims of this. Which reporter now challenges the martyr? It’s no doubt certain there’s an amazing track record of transparency for press coverage of the General’s regime to contrast with this…

Yes, she was so vindictive, the killing of her father for his political holdings was such a petty position of her to take…

“But according to accounts given by Dr. Khan’s associates, Ms. Bhutto, after visits to North Korea in the 1990s, returned to Islamabad with North Korean missile designs intended to be mated to the Pakistani bomb.”

Hope they don’t work as poorly as did their own designs for making a bomb. You do realize most likely she helped us set up a ringer and delay North Korea’s arrival to that phase?

It’s probably the only way they’d okay the Bechtel deals at the time, Western power over Eastern money, with the understanding we’d still shape the outcome in ways that would stymie their leverage.
Now the deregulation of Bushco. has accelerated that perhaps catastrophically, but it’s quite evident someone was a mole.

Unless of course the North has already been successful, and we’re providing plausible cover to Condi and Bush fumbling, as usual, which would explain our about face on talks tot he extent we’d even talk with them instead of the prior pony show that Bolton burped forth…

So Musharraf, who has all the reason to fear her being able to divide his own support among Western venture, gave her a break on amnesty. He probably set a high mark for compensation that we’ve apparently matched.

Where are those unaccounted for funds that Musharraf’s Army was given after 2001 by the America?

It was clearly the fault of Bhutto, just like Enron was Hillary’s fault.

Speaking of Enron, how’d the pipeline ventures through Pakistan work out? Did Ken Lay fly any GOP staffers to election centers in Pakistan and stop vote counting? Did Musharraf’s pro-military soft coup get fiscal backing from western venture capitalists like Enron? You realize Kenny Boy was Dubya’s biggest supporter and even visited the White House and had a publicly paid seat as a member of the Energy Task Force?

And now we must all support Musharraf and his nukular extortion game in fear of worst case scenarios? Cheney still refuses to let Americans see what the Energy task Force talked about, and cites national security?

Mission Accomplished.

If it’s as you say and Pakistan is that corrupt, this has cleared only a portion of the fog from the view of oversight. We see the OVP runs all foreign relations with Pakistan from our side, so the saying goes, where’s there is smoke there is fire.

It’s time to call forth a Committee on the matter. Let’s let our side of the pond look at exactly what methods were used to prop up Musharraf.

Let’s examine the fiscal ties between Western venture and the press apparatus that was so vigilant vs. Bhutto.

Let us see where the USAID items went, what kind of results did we intend to shape? Funding for Pakistan seems to vanish much like funding for Iraq. What kind of institutional oversight is really being applied?

If you really want to put the pressure on Musharraf, I’d suggest the INTERPOL route Internationally, and an FBI/DEA kind of approach with our own interests and appropriations there. Musharraf has a Shah feel about him, but the big picture looks more along the lines of something like Noriega. Both in the event they start targeting political opposition, killing protesters, etc.

Dude,

Enough of the Hillary is great and Obama is clueless… we get it – you like Hillary Clinton.

– Mitchman

“Last week, a federal magistrate ruled that Hicks was a security risk because of the training he had received in terrorist camps in Afghanistan. The court was told he met al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden at least 20 times.“

Osama been forgotten.

We can find aguy who met Osama 20 times but can’t find the leader?

At the same time:
“…stories about Ms. Bhutto calmly stating he’d been murdered.”
-Ruth

Bhutto said that.
http://jazz-from-hell.blogspot.com/2007/12/bhutto-believed-bin-laden-was-dead.html