by FPS Doug
Mon Dec 31st, 2007 at 03:40:33 PM EST
(From the notebooks of "Jacob Freeze")
The same Nancy Pelosi who has led Democratic investigations of nothing in the year since she became Speaker of the House now threatens to cut off aid to Pakistan unless they conduct an investigation of the assasination of Benazir Bhutto that meets the high standards of the do-nothing rollover Democratic Congress!
"There must be an international investigation of this despicable crime."
The genius part of Pelosi's suggestion is the international aspect of the investigation. Maybe the US should set a good example of putting international investigators in charge of prosecuting our own political crimes! A team of detectives from the Arab League investigates Guantanamo! Another team from Iran investigates 9/11... with full power to serve warrants, make arrests, and execute criminals!
Dick Cheney, watch out! The Iraqi police are coming to getcha!
So let's forget about the despicable crime perpetrated on Jose Padilla! Forget about the despicable criminal establishment at Guantanamo Bay! Forget about impeaching the murderer in the White House, and let's hold Musharraf to a high standard that the gutless Democrats never even approached on the best day they ever had since the people voted them into the majority.
If the Democrats had any real interest in stablizing Pakistan, they would cut off funding for the idiotic occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, and take away the main tool for recruiting suicide bombers from Madrid to Jakarta, and if they had any real understanding of politics anywhere outside the Beltway, they wouldn't be making a heroine out of Benazir Bhutto, who presided over one of the most monstrously corrupt regimes in the monstrously corrupt history of "democracy" in Pakistan, as documented in John Burns' excellent article for the Times in 1998. At least $100 million was extracted from the starving population by Benazir and the same charming husband who now refuses to allow an autopsy of his assassinated partner in crime, because an autopsy would make it so much harder to accuse Musharraf of a cover-up.
The corruption of Benazir's administration isn't a hanging offense in our particular system of "justice," which forgives all crimes at the top, but corruption was part of the hodge-podge of charges that hanged her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1979. That whole freak show, which saw the Supreme Court of Pakistan adjourned by the Chief Justice to avoid a reversal of Zulfikar's death sentence, should serve as yet another reminder that the concept of "democracy" in Pakistan is just a sad joke.
