[Para-Ord.45]

Your attempt to equate bravery on a battlefield in the line of fire and a politician is dubious at best.

She should have evailed herself of simple security precautions such as hmmm, oh i don`t know,

BULLET PROOF GLASS maybe, LCD stadium screens for speeches, her own security forces(concentric rings of them ala the Secret Service), et,etc.

She had a death wish.

[XR7]

She had a death wish.

And you are a cruel little man.

[JasonC]

Right, and the pope wanted to be shot by a Turkish goon, and Reagan wanted to be shot by a lunatic, and Sadat wanted to be shot by Islamic Jihad, and Ford wanted to be shot by left wing crazies, and Robert Kennedy wanted to be shot by a Palestinian terrorist, and MLK wanted to be shot by a racist nutter, and John Kennedy wanted to be shot by a communist...

Bhutto asked for far more security from the army than she got - but she was not going to let the amount of it available or the threats from fundamentalist goons dictate her behavior. No one should. The terrorists deserve defiance, and nothing they can do can defeat *brave* righteous men. Their methods only have any effect at all, on *cowards*. The rest of us simply defy them the more, the worse their actions become.