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Musharraf to Leave Office
Wall Street Journal ^

Posted on 08/14/2008 10:10:44 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Musharraf to Leave Office By ZAHID HUSSAIN and PETER WONACOTT August 14, 2008 1:02 p.m.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf is expected to leave office in the next few days before Pakistan's Parliament takes up impeachment proceedings against him after the president's aides and officials of Pakistan's leading political party reached a breakthrough in secret talks designed to ease Mr. Musharraf's departure from office, according to a person familiar with the situation.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: geopolitics; islam; mohammedanism; musharraf; pakistan; pervezmusharraf; wot
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1 posted on 08/14/2008 10:10:45 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Great. They’ll replace one corrupt WOT obstructionist for another. That will be fun, too.


2 posted on 08/14/2008 10:15:12 AM PDT by edpc (@#&!*$)
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To: Sub-Driver

Not good.


3 posted on 08/14/2008 10:16:36 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Sub-Driver

With Iran, Russia and now Pakistan being in the news, my gut is telling me the shiite is going to be hitting the fan soon...


4 posted on 08/14/2008 10:16:56 AM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ("It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
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To: Sub-Driver

When an islamist rises to power in Pakistan and Obama is our President, and Putin goes totally nuts, then we will be in for a VERY rough ride (into doom).


5 posted on 08/14/2008 10:17:26 AM PDT by SolidWood (God Bless Georgia and grant them victory over Russia!)
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To: Sub-Driver

It’s really too bad that this ill-fated nation couldn’t be reincorporated into India, from which it should never have been partitioned.

IMHO.

Well, not so H, actually.


6 posted on 08/14/2008 10:21:17 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Oh-oh, not good.


7 posted on 08/14/2008 10:25:17 AM PDT by Condor51 (I have guns in my nightstand because a Cop won't fit)
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To: Condor51

How long til Musharraf is living in the US?


8 posted on 08/14/2008 10:27:00 AM PDT by Chucky is a girlie man
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To: Chucky is a girlie man

one week.


9 posted on 08/14/2008 10:27:48 AM PDT by Condor51 (I have guns in my nightstand because a Cop won't fit)
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To: Sub-Driver

Without a military dictator, Pakistan will become the Islamic Jihad.


10 posted on 08/14/2008 10:30:01 AM PDT by Mariner
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To: Sub-Driver

Sounds like the islamofruitcakes are not happy with him even pretending to help us in our WOT.


11 posted on 08/14/2008 10:30:05 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: Mariner
Looks like the PPP will be in power. Their Manifesto:

The first principle of the Party is: Islam is our Faith. Islam teaches brotherhood, love and peace. Our Faith places a responsibility on each citizen to reach out in a spirit of accommodation and tolerance to all religions and sects and to treat people of all faiths with respect, enabling them to enjoy religious freedom and equality before the law.

The message of Islam is the message of Peace.

Don't worry, be happy!

12 posted on 08/14/2008 10:37:36 AM PDT by Dick Holmes
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To: Sub-Driver

Great. Who will they replace him with? Mullah Omar?


13 posted on 08/14/2008 10:38:40 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Terrorist organizations worldwide endorse Obama.)
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To: cake_crumb

You’re probably not too far off...


14 posted on 08/14/2008 10:45:20 AM PDT by Bosco (Remember how you felt on September 11?)
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To: SolidWood
When an islamist rises to power in Pakistan and Obama is our President, and Putin goes totally nuts, then we will be in for a VERY rough ride (into doom).

How do we make sure that their nukes are secure before Musharraf goes? If we don't secure them their parliament will turn them over to the taliban. This is really shaping up as an historically crappy week!

15 posted on 08/14/2008 10:46:28 AM PDT by pgkdan (Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions - G.K. Chesterton)
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To: pgkdan; MeekOneGOP

“How do we make sure that their nukes are secure before Musharraf goes?”

Good question. This could be a more urgent problem than Georgia.


16 posted on 08/14/2008 10:57:34 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March ("The internet needs a gatekeeper," The Cackling Comeback Witch aka Hillary Rod-ham [Clinton])
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To: Sub-Driver

this doesn’t sound good


17 posted on 08/14/2008 11:46:10 AM PDT by AprilfromTexas
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To: Mariner

“Without a military dictator, Pakistan will become the Islamic Jihad.”

...with nukes


18 posted on 08/14/2008 11:48:43 AM PDT by AprilfromTexas
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To: Sub-Driver
Good thing I'm in a stable nation among this hotbed of instability...

;-)

19 posted on 08/14/2008 11:50:15 AM PDT by Allegra (Goodness me, goodness me, industrial disease...)
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To: Sub-Driver

If he leaves, it’s no great loss in my book. He’s better than an Islamofascist, but he was vastly overrated as an ally.


20 posted on 08/14/2008 12:37:54 PM PDT by jpl ("First come smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire." - Roland of Gilead)
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