Great, Joe, that's so reassuring to the rest of us

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From the man who has brought everything hook, line and sinker, that the Bush administration has cast, we're now getting reassurances on a tyrant with a nuke arsenal.

Creepy Joe Lieberman doesn't seem to recognize a dictator when he sees one, either. Or a country poised on the brink of collapse on a number of fronts. Nor does he see that a country where terrorists, the military and the ruler are all interconnected, is not the model of stability. But he does believe what that country's military leaders say, implicitly (aren't they the ones who lied about the assassination of Benazir Bhutto?)

C'mon Joe, you're the laughingstock of anyone in America who has half a brain.

Democratic martyr or feudal princess

Maybe the American view of Benazir Bhutto is as inaccurate as it is fantastical.

Here's another view. Thanks Vijay.

On Countdown, Dodd talks sense on Pakistan

Chris Dodd appeared last night on a special edition of Countdown which dealt with the death of Benazir Bhutto, and the effect it will have in Pakistan and the world.

Dodd advises caution, stability, and delayed elections so that the People's Party of Pakistan can get back on its feet before an election is held.

The convenient death of Benazir Bhutto

Benazir Bhutto was putting heat on the Bush-backed dictator Pervez Musharaff, and on the zealots in the religious right wing in Pakistan, and she was assassinated today at a political rally. Other parliamentary candidates were rumored to be killed in the attack.

A tragedy for the world, for Pakistan, for democracy, and for her family and followers, Bhutto's death is a huge, "coincidental" advantage in the elections for opponents in the upcoming elections.

Musharaff may find that as much as his political fortunes may have appeared to have risen today, that a politically motivated assassination can curiously turn sour for anyone who may even appear to take advantage from it.

I was just talking about Bhutto this weekend with John Schilke who taped an interview with her this past summer in his studio in New Haven when she was visiting Yale. And a former co-worker was a classmate of hers at Harvard.