Posted on 12/28/2011 11:35:54 AM PST by Qbert
(ISLAMABAD) -- Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is hoping to head off a potential military coup by imploring Pakistanis to reject attempts at usurping democracy.
Zardari made his remarks Tuesday in southern Sindh province on the fourth anniversary of the assassination of his late wife, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
Bhutto had just returned from exile two months earlier and was rumored to be seeking a return to power when she was slain on Dec. 27, 2007.
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Zardari has always had uneasy relations with Pakistan's powerful military and his camp believes they will either try to remove him by force or through the judiciary. His ouster would be a blow to Washington, which considers Zardari one of its strongest allies in Pakistan.
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So please resume financial aid to the Pakistani military to buy them off..
Pakistan continues to threaten the West with its own destruction. “Do what we want, or we will collapse, and with loose nukes and Taliban running around, you guys in America will be sorry!!!”
Time to call their bluff.
Pakistan should be dismembered into its ethnic / tribal factions, and let India, China and Iran fight over the scraps.
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