Submitted by Carole Borges on Sun, 2007/11/04 - 1:54am.
"Washington has generously backed the general {Musharaff), sending him more than $10 billion in aid since 2001, mostly for the military. Now the administration finds itself in the bind of having to publicly castigate the man it has described as one of its closest allies in fighting terrorism." Link...
First Russia's Putin. Now Musharaff in Pakistan. It seems another of GWB's "good friends" seems to have duped him into thinking he was pro-democracy or maybe it was just the way these Bush allies were presented to the USA, so us taxpayers would want to help them. I do not want my tax dollars going to support a government that oppresses its own people. I thought we were fighting to support freedom and democracy in the Middle East?
Pakistan ought to be the model of democracy in the Islamic world, being secular and more modern than its neighbors, but a political crisis is rapidly developing there. Now Osama bin Laden, likely hiding in Pakistan's rugged, semi-autonomous, northern mountains, has called for a holy war against President Musharraf.
