This whole situation out there shows how much of a stinfuck lying MSM we have, especially television (which is off now):
"U.S. Is Looking Past Musharraf in Case He Falls" by HELENE COOPER, MARK MAZZETTI and DAVID ROHDE
Keep the title in mind. It puts the lie to all the bullshit later!
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 — Almost two weeks into Pakistan’s political crisis, Bush administration officials are losing faith that the Pakistani president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, can survive in office and have begun discussing what might come next, according to senior administration officials.
Like it's new. Been planning this shit for months!
Administration officials say they still hope that Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte can salvage the fractured arranged marriage between General Musharraf and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
It's like they chose the words just to insult Muslims, don't they?!
Several senior administration officials said that with each day that passed, more administration officials were coming around to the belief that General Musharraf’s days in power were numbered and that the United States should begin considering contingency plans, including reaching out to Pakistan’s generals.
Bye-bye, Mushy!
The Bush administration remained wary of the perception that the United States was cutting back-room deals to install the next leader of Pakistan.
Duh! EVERYBODY FUCKING KNOWS IT, and NO ONE IS FOOLED, assholes!
Senior officials at the White House, the State Department and the Pentagon now say they recognize that the Pakistani Army remains a powerful force for stability in Pakistan, and that there is little prospect of an Islamic takeover if General Musharraf should fall.
Then why did you scare us about the nukes in the Islamists hands?
See how they shovel shit on a daily basis? AmeriKa's MSM SUCKS SHIT!
If General Musharraf is forced from power, they say, it would most likely be in a gentle push by fellow officers, who would try to install a civilian president and push for parliamentary elections to produce the next prime minister, perhaps even Ms. Bhutto, despite past strains between her and the military.
That's the U.S. PLAN, anyway!
Such a scenario would be a return to the diffuse and sometimes unwieldy democracy that Pakistan had in the 1990s before General Musharraf seized power in a bloodless coup.
Pakistan’s cadre of elite generals, called the corps commanders, have long been kingmakers inside the country. At the top of that cadre is Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, General Musharraf’s designated successor as army chief. General Kayani is a moderate, pro-American infantry commander who is widely seen as commanding respect within the army and, within Western circles, as a potential alternative to General Musharraf.
Got our man in place, since the U.S. CONTROLS the Pakistani Army!
Administration officials said they were also dismayed that General Musharraf last week released 25 militants in exchange for 213 soldiers captured by militants in August, and agreed to withdraw soldiers from certain areas of South Waziristan.
Since spring, concern has been growing in the armed forces that General Musharraf’s battle to remain in power also damaged the reputation of the armed forces, Western and Pakistani military analysts say.
The army’s poor performance battling militants in the country’s rugged tribal areas in the northwest has placed enormous strain on the army as well. Hundreds of soldiers have died, dozens have surrendered without a fight.
Oh, now I see our problem with him.
Never mind that the ISI, CIA, and MI6 creates the "terrorists" that he's allegedly not fighting.
And the next terror attack will conveniently come from the caves and "Al-CIA-Duh, "right?
Given the bombs getting on the planes (while your seized toiletries are sold on e-bay by the government), the near air-collisions, the stand-down of all the F-15s, and Bush opening up military airspace, I can just smell the next terror attack coming!
Can't you? Muslims got us over the Christian holidays, right?
And CUI BONO? Only one shitstink state!
And is Mushy's Army getting their butts kicked or what?
How come this is the first I'm hearing of it?
While no large-scale protests have emerged since the emergency was declared, the apparent collapse over the last week of American-backed talks to create a power-sharing deal between Ms. Bhutto and General Musharraf could lead to more street confrontations, diplomats said.
Pressure could build on General Musharraf if the corps commanders believed that the president’s actions threatened the billions of dollars in annual aid from Washington that has become the lifeblood for Pakistan's military.
Well, I'm glad we are paying their costs, too!
Not like Americans at home need money for anything.
I HATE THIS FUCKING WAR-MONGERING ASSHOLE BUSH!!!!!!!!!!!!
Were the genearls to feel that aid was in danger, experts said, it would be the tipping point.
Christine Fair, a Pakistan analyst in Washington:
“The military is pretty demoralized right now, but what keeps Musharraf in the position he is in with the military is the huge largess from the United States.”
And eat shit, Amurka!
"A Top Rival in Pakistan Is Carted Off by the Police" by SALMAN MASOOD and CARLOTTA GALL
LAHORE, Pakistan, Nov. 14 — The opposition politician Imran Khan emerged from hiding on Wednesday to the cheers of hundreds of students protesting against the president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, at a university here and was quickly seized by hard-line students and turned over to the police.
Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan in October — at the encouragement of American and British officials — hoping to run in elections that might make her prime minister while lending a democratic face to General Musharraf’s increasingly unpopular military government. But that arrangement seems near collapse.
Yeah, the Pakistanis are fucking stoo-pid!
How about treating them with respect for the intelligent people they are instead, stink fuck U.S.?
Students affiliated with the radical Islamic party Jamaat-e-Islami were also at the rally, chanting slogans against President Bush and the United States."
Yeah, but those folks mean nothing according to the stinkfuck, lyin' Zionist press!
Always minimizing the appeal of religion in the Islamist world in your shit toilet propaganda paper, aren't you, lying Times?!
"Bhutto freed from house arrest; Released prior to the arrival of US envoy" by Zarar Khan/Associated Press November 16, 2007
LAHORE, Pakistan - Political unrest intensified yesterday as one of the country's main Islamist parties called its first protests for today against the state of emergency, adding the voice of factions opposed to Musharraf's alliance with the United States to the recent protests by lawyers, students, and secular parties against military rule.
Now I'm getting excited!
So the Islamists are going to bond with the protesters, too, huh?
Yeah!
Also yesterday, two children and an adult were killed during a gunbattle between police and protesters in the southern city of Karachi. Protests were reported in other cities and more party activists were arrested.
Want to see the picture of the rock-throwing democrats?
Reflecting a view in Washington that Musharraf may not be able to hold on to power, US officials have been referring broadly to "the Pakistani leadership" and contacting other senior military leaders. The back-channel contacts include some who may have pull with Musharraf or even pose an alternative to his rule.
That is important to remember, reader.
That the U.S. is cutting deals with back-channel contacts!
Remember that!
"Musharraf Plans Election as Opposition Vows Unity" by CARLOTTA GALL
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Friday, Nov. 16 — The police, meanwhile, continued rounding up opposition members. They arrested Raza Rabbani, a senior member of Ms. Bhutto’s party, the Pakistan Peoples Party, and the leader of the opposition in the Senate, and a number of other politicians meeting with him in Karachi, according to a fellow senator, Enver Baig.
Two boys were shot and killed in clashes with the police in Lyari, a district of Karachi, which is strongly pro-Bhutto, news agencies reported. They were the first casualties of the de facto martial law."
Want to know how stoo-pid the Boston Globe editorial board is, reader?
Check it out:
"What not to do in Pakistan" November 16, 2007
Because Pakistan has nuclear weapons and harbors both Taliban and Al Qaeda jihadists, its political crisis cannot be a matter of indifference either to its neighbors or to its principal international backer, the United States.
Reports just told me they ain't a threat to the arsenal, so WTF Globe?
But blatant American meddling in Pakistan's drama could end up doing considerable harm to US security interests, while also discrediting the Pakistani political forces Washington may wish to help. There is some evidence that this is already happening.
Supporters of religious parties who join with secular parties to demonstrate against Musharraf have been shouting anti-American slogans. They are seizing on the general's vanishing popularity to argue that Pakistanis ought to direct their wrath not only at him, but also at the Uncle Sam who manipulates his puppet behind the scenes.
That's right! Mushy the puppet! And EVERYBODY KNOWS IT!
Bhutto owes her homecoming after eight years in exile to a US-brokered deal between her and Musharraf on political cohabitation. She is also repackaging herself as a democratic leader who is not in thrall to Musharraf's American sponsors.
But, but, but... Pakistanis aren't as good a shit eaters as Amurkns!
They ain't gonna fall for this crap!
At this treacherous point in Pakistan's power struggle, President Bush and his advisers should first do no harm. The last thing they should be doing is to declare their preferences in that power struggle - or to let it be known, off the record, that they are sounding out senior Pakistani generals about persuading Musharraf to step aside."
DON'T YOU GUYS EVEN READ YOUR OWN FUCKING NEWSPAPER'S REPORTS?!
UN-FUCKING-BELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!
So either the Globe is a bunch of ignorant idiots, or they are quite good at shoveling shit, huh, readers?
