Posted on 12/27/2007 5:12:06 AM PST by COUNTrecount
Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has been critically injured after a suspected suicide attack at a political rally in Pakistan.
It was believed to be a suicide attackShe is undergoing emergency surgery at a nearby hospital, Sky News sources say.
The explosion went off just after Ms Bhutto left the rally in Rawalpindi, minutes after her speech to thousands of people.
Consumer Confidence up a small bit...nice...
..he'll simply relight the candle on both ends, keep taken US money...when the country falls into a complete sh** pot, he'll just move to Syria with truck loads of deposit slips
“Good for us or bad for the RATS?”
I’d say anything that reminds people we’re at war is “good” for us, politically.
This may have just pushed stock in Obama down bigtime. Remember he is the one who suggested he would go in and straighten out Pakistan.
McCain will be on Fox live shortly to make a statement. Huckabee has said nothing at all at a rally in Florida. And as usual the MSM are completely ignoring Fred.
I agree with your assessment. I will say that it hurts Hillary and the other Dems vis-a-vis the Reps. Being First Lady or a first term senator are not the stuff of leadership in international crises.
Please explain what Foreign Affairs experience puts McCain in a top position? Senators act like Lords, and travel around the world on the taxpayer’s dime, but besides that, what?
This demonstrates that we cannot let our guard down again (like pre-9/11)by allowing our politicians to divert us to domestic matters over national security.
Every Democrat running for President must be formulating their "blame Bush" statement right now.
why are you talking about Romney here?
I am not sure it was Al Quaida who did this.
There are lot of factions in Paksitan who are Islamic and half-baked.
This is actually government as usual in an Islamic Country.
From what I can recall of her, she was no friend of the U.S. anyway and she ran a party of socialists.
It will be difficult to assess the ramificaitons of this action, but, as I said - government as usual in Islamdom.
Evidently her entire family was a bunch of thieves but hey, maybe that's tradition in that part of the world.
Here's the thing I can't quite get around....if these governing elite think they are entitled to take what is essentially blackmail money from other countries to keep the nukes quiet, at least as I surmise...who's to say they won't take money from the Islamofacists?
Is it all about the money or isn't it? How can we know?
My money's on Musharaff. He's the one that was issued an ultimatum he couldn't refuse by the US, he's the one that's somehow kept peace in that country from hell, he's the one that probably saved the fine and honest Ms. Bhutto from death a couple of times.
Musharaff might not have done such a good job of taming that wild and wooly Pakistani frontier and who knows how infiltrated his government was? But for seven years he's held down that fort and it seems to me he was willing to have elections. I do not believe that Musharaff killed Bhutto no matter how much the Islamofacists try to convince us as the pee upon our feet and tell us it's raining.
But don’t you think events may overtake him? He may WANT to continue business as usual- whatever that means to him...but this is going to incite flaming emotions in Pakistan.
Yes Fox already commented that Huck did not mention the events in Pakistan during his rally.
President statement coming in about one hour.
Bhutto's assasination in Pakistan was as predictable as the snowman on your front lawn melting before the Fourth of July and many Freepers saw it coming weeks ago.
Bhutto is an example of what happens when a person wrapped up in 21st Century Western-style naivete believes that armed Evil can be confronted merely by scolding it.
Ghandi succeeded with the latter method only because he was up against an armed British Empire with a conscience and not up against armed Evil. If India had fallen to the Japanese in April 1942, Ghandi and his Indian nationalist followers would have been dead by May 1942.
why are you talking about Romney here?
Actually, this has a lot to do with our current politics.... this SHOULD remind the rest of the world much less out own country, how important it is to have the best person running our country in the upcoming elections.
“India announces it is stepping up the security level on the LOC (line of control) area in Kashmir bordering Pakistan. Things getting hot in Karachi with street outrage, and I am watching bonfires in the streets of Rawalpindi on Indian TV.”
Situation is very fluid . . . I’d bet India is dusting off general military strike plans and pre-emptive strike plans just in case things really get out of control. Nothing like wondering who is in control of your hostile enemy’s nuclear aresenal
...if he was behind it, he'll ride it out....if AQ was behind it with his blessing, he's booking his flight soon
then do it on another thread!!
I thought he looked good.
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