After reading the article, I just have to wonder: The US official quoted wasn't April Glaspie, by any chance, was it?

This what we get when our CIA spend millions getting a USA friendly person elected. Just check out the CIA Timeline and tell me where we have not been involved. It is becoming all to clear now, Germany, France, Australia, Pakistan
and Japan and who knows where else. I am sure
in South America as well. Does not always work and sometimes backfires like in the case of Venezuela. Maybe with our falling dollar our might will shrink too, who knows.

The Bush WH was not tipped off. They wrote and ordered the plan that kept a military dictator in power. This is what Bush's democracy looks like.

since the 50s military coup d etats have been common ,somehow this crowd knows a bit more than diplomats about sneaing into world policy... although musharaff cannot credit himself for authoring democratisation or being a global business expert but in his speeches to pakistanis he eloquently announced himself as a hero of democracy and caled it unique ......before him a gen zia ul haque sipped all the broth from the 'crash of 79's ' bowl and with jimmy carter he created a enlistment8 'fighting for gods sake' because they were fighting communists with us money ..earlier before there was a general ayub who walked in with a revolution a version contrast to jfk's green revolution but timely ............lol!

Who cares about Pakistan's democracy? Right?

No one cares about Iraq's democracy, many would say "Iraq is Iraq's business, it's up to their people to work it out"... right?

Why is Pakistan any different?

Bush's embrace of "elected" presidents who do want to give up power -- in Pakistan, Lebanon, Russia -- is very scary. Combined with his trashing of the American Constitution, justice system and Congressional checks and balances, one must begin to wonder what will happen to our democracy in January 2009 if Bush and his corporate backers to not get a Republican or Hillary as his successor.

If Bush used his authority to declare a national state of emergency and excercise all of dictatorial authority he has amassed, exactly who would stop him? If the military sycophants are loyal only to the commander in chief, and an impotent Congress cannot muster "enough votes" to act, what is America's recourse? Accept Bush rule for as long as he decides our "national security intersts" dictate it.

Even thinking about such a scenario seven years ago would have been absurd. But Bush assumed the presidency by Sumpreme Court appointment and has acted like a dictator since 9-11. Can we really be secure that he would honor the Contitution and cede power in 2009? If not, then what?

Saudi'a are sending a possible US puppet, Nawar Shariff, to Pakistan. This freedom hating fascist
has been hiding in Saudi Arabia, but now Pakistan
needs him to help Mushariff.

He may be the Chalabi of Pakistan.

Pakistan's crackdown is Cheney's wet dream

ALL I can say is the past six years under the :
RULLER
DICTATOR
PRESIDENT
has been years of :
LIES
GREED
STEALINGDISTRUCTION OF AMERICAN JOBS
THE MIDDLE CLASS
KATRINA
THE DEATH OF TOTAL TO DATE OF 33,000 PLUS AMERICAN MEN & WOMAN
BY a man who vacations more at the ranch then in the ovel office
a v.p that lies , shoots others in there face,continues to want WAR
and a cabiete thatprofited from war and deaths of others.

http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=182648
9/11 & The Pakistan Connection

this shit goes deeper than anyone can possibly imagine. nobody knows everything. karma is infallible but unknowable.

The Bush WH should have been tipped off because they wrote and ordered the plan.

Here's to chaos in Pakistan!

It's off to war with Iran without chaos in Pakistan.

If our President ever (HA) declared Martial Law, you suppose the Pakistanis would get the same consideration?

That'd never happen here, right?

Try to impeach the little bastard, see what happens.

NOBODY even FART for the next 12 months....

Ummm? Hello? Admiral Fallon was reported to be in Pakistan and at their military headquarters when Musharraf gave the orders for the crackdown.

Tipped off? Ya got to be kidding?

It amuses me that posters, like smellyone, will give up every right, every hope, every penny we have, will happily ruin his kids or grandkids lives...all because their ego is so big, their grandiose image of his/herself so overblown that rather than face reality she/he/it will stand idly by and watch the REPUBLICAN president destroy the USA. By not facing facts...and the fact is: YOU WERE WRONG TO SUPPORT BUSH, you instead will bury your head in the sand and hope no one comes after you. You and all those who voted for this moron are pathetic, uneducated (going to school isn't the point...LEARNING is), idiots. When, exactly, are you people going to wake up?

Sadly, probably never...the only good thing is that you won't have to look your grandkids in the eye to tell them you're a failure, they already know.

President General Pervez Musharraf does what is best for President General Pervez Musharraf and no one else. Please get it right.

This vile little man is a nuclear loose cannon and is playing each and every end against the middle, the "middle" being the idiot Bush/Cheney swine herd.

This situation in Pakistan is 1000 times more dangerous than Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq combined.