Nice stewardship.
We got a guy planning to do the same in about five months!!
I think you know him, he's a friend of yours.
Name of Bush, George W?
"Relief over Musharraf's departure fades; Pakistanis face economic woes and insurgency" by Laura King, Los Angeles Times | August 25, 2008
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - For Rashid Shahbaz, a rail-thin day laborer, the surge of happiness he felt over President Pervez Musharraf's resignation last week leached away all too swiftly, replaced by the same sense of anxiety that has tugged at him for months.
"How can I feed my family? How can I give my children a future?" he said, falling into step with other worshipers heading to noon prayers at a run-down neighborhood mosque in the capital. "That's what I am asking God every day. Every single day."
That's what WE ALL WANT!!
You ain't that different from the "terrorists," are you Americans?
So whom are the REAL TERRORISTS, hmmmm?
Pakistan, with its propensity for lightning-fast changes in the national mood, has swung in recent days from euphoria over Musharraf's long-awaited exit to deep foreboding over whether its remaining leaders are up to the tasks of pulling the country out of an economic free fall and confronting a burgeoning Islamic insurgency.
Even though they called for a unilateral peace (see post above).
See what I mean about the AmeriKan jewsmedia?
Amid the ongoing turmoil, economic indicators have marched steadily downward. With inflation running at 25 percent annually, prices for staples such as rice and bread have doubled or tripled in recent months. High petrol prices mean many people barely can afford to drive, or even buy a bus ticket to get to work.
"Sometimes people look like they want to cry when they are paying for their groceries," said shopkeeper Ali Mustafa, whose own business is teetering because he has extended credit to so many of his longtime customers. "They are searching their handbags and their pockets for every single coin. I look away when this happens."
What COMPASSION the Muslims have!!!!
There are somethings we don't have in common with Muslims, America, and our banker-based economic system is one of them!
We got guys who gouge poor and rip off more!
Amid the long political deadlock over Musharraf's political fate, once-robust stock prices slid so sharply that investors rioted last month outside the main Karachi exchange, which has shed almost a third of its value this year. The national currency, the rupee, has plunged to historic lows.
In the debilitating summer heat, frequent power cuts fray tempers and interrupt daily routines. Rolling blackouts afflict the entire country, including this once-orderly capital, which largely was shielded from such power disruptions until this year. The unreliable electrical supply has created a new class of haves and have-nots: those who can afford home generators, and those who cannot, and swelter and suffer.
Pakistan is SOOOOO like AmeriKa right now!
The United States's ability to influence events in Pakistan is probably at its lowest ebb in a generation, according to analysts and even some US officials.
Among Pakistanis, there is a strong sense of grievance against the Bush administration for its years of patronage of Musharraf. Although that support finally faded in the final months of his tenure, it continued long after his compatriots had decisively turned against him.
Another shit legacy left behind by that prick!
America's close ties to Musharraf were a long-chafing sore point, especially over the last 18 months as a nationwide pro-democracy movement sprang into being. Pakistani commentators routinely derided their leader as "Busharraf," and demonstrators shouted in the streets, "Musharraf is America's pet dog!"
Particularly repugnant in the eyes of Pakistani civil activists was the Bush administration's failure to condemn the firing of dozens of judges during a six-week stint of emergency rule, when Musharraf also suspended the Constitution and threw thousands of opponents into jail.
But even among the many Pakistanis who rejoiced at Musharraf's fall, his fate was viewed as a cautionary tale of what befalls a leader who has outlived his usefulness to Washington, D.C.
"This has reinforced the very cynical feeling Pakistanis have had for many years about the relationship with the United States - 'They'll use you, and then they'll ditch you,' " said retired Brigadier General Naeem Salik, now a visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Wow!! PRETTY SMART PEOPLE over there, huh, Americans?
Get your head out that shitbowl, hey!!!!!!!!!
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