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Bhutto Murder Not U.S. Sanctioned But...

The assassination of Benazir Bhutto today was not condoned or sanctioned by the United States. In fact, it was the U.S. that lead efforts to get Pakistan's General/ President Musharraf to open new democratic elections. Which seemed [on the surface in recent weeks/month] to be making some headway - inspite of recent stalling by Musharraf.

But...

I noticed 2 items this afternoon that lead me to question what our government knew and when they knew it.

• The first is that Condelezza Rice did not PERSONALLY deliver "her outrage and disappointment" of the everts speech. Instead another State Department representative did. So what? Well in some parts of the world, unless you say it in person - it counts for little/nothing.

Its no secret that Musharraf never wanted to give up any power. And if you have any potential rivals, the best thing you can do is to get rid of them.

So if they are out of the country, protected by another country? You need to find a way to bring them to you...which is just what he did by allowing the "promise of democratic elections".

I'd like to hope our government saw this one coming - although they've missed every other intelligent opportunity up till now - I can still hold out hope.

I posted originally here