Comments on: Musharraf Suspends Pakistan's Constitution

State Of Emergency Declared, Chief Justice Replaced And Communications Cut In Capital

[abbe91]

"General Musharraf%u2019s decision to impose emergency in Pakistan is absolutely right. And majority of the public is favoring General Musharraf%u2019s decision. General Musharraf is right man to stop extremism in Pakistan which is spreading dangerously and the corrupt politicians of Pakistan will be able to stop these dangerous terrorists. Every sensible Pakistani is with General Musharraf and supports his emergency%u2019s decision.
Posted by faisalnawaz at 12:33 AM"

"...the settlement of the Czechoslovakian problem, which has now been achieved is, in my view, only the prelude to a larger settlement in which all Europe may find peace. This morning I had another talk with the German Chancellor, Herr Hitler, and here is the paper which bears his name upon it as well as mine (waves paper to the crowd - receiving loud cheers and "Hear Hears"). Some of you, perhaps, have already heard what it contains but I would just like to read it to you ...".
Chamberlain on September 30th, 1938.

[abbe91]

"Musharraf may not be the ideal ally as the Shah wasn''''t
Posted by jowand at 05:55 AM : Nov 04, 2007"

When did I hear this before ?

http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/_/1/saddam_rummy.jpg

[jowand]

What is happening now is almost a replay of 1979 with the Shah of Iran, Kohmeni and Jimmy Carter.
The holier than thou crowd got their way in 1979, being so narrow minded and thinking they lived in a political vaccuum. Carter and Company dumped the Shah he didn''t fit their moral model and we ended up with the situation that we have in Iran.
Musharraf may not be the ideal ally as the Shah wasn''t, but he is better than the alternative which is Bin Laden followers. When it comes to condeming Musharraf, Progressives are lightning fast. When it come to condeming Irans Mullahs, not so fast you say, you want to go back to 1953 and say it is all the US'' problem. Think for once, what are you going to have replace Musharraf, let the crazies decide? Do you really want another 1979 instant replay? What will you do when the real crazies take over Pakistan? Do the consequences ever outweigh the blame game, conspiracy theories and hysterical name calling?

[nhprophet]

My fellow Americans just don''t seem to care that our nation, along with The Constitution upon which it was founded, is being flushed-down the NWO toilet by our nations'' bought and paid for politicians and media. While the Oligarchs warn and insite fear in the sheeple about the prospect of terrorism, they at the same time leave our border wide open, and fund and conduct illegal wars overseas that do nothing but encite the terrorism which their Orwellian Laws like the Patriot Act and The Real ID Act pretend to protect us from. Wake up America! It''s not about protecting you from terrorism, or saving the planet from Global Warming, or any of that other fear-mongering garbage the sold-out, mainstream media feeds you 24/7. It''s about feeding the bankers and the military industrial complex, and facilitating the ruling elite''s ability to ratchet-down control over the American people, placing us into a total control grid where they can surveille, track and control everywhere we go and everything we do. It''s the groundwork for totalitarianism, my friends. It''s New World Order plan of Bush, Clinton, Giuliani, et.al., being executed quite beautifully. You''re a victim of mass mind control--a frog in a pot. In order to cook a frog, you don''t throw him into a pot of boiling water. If you do, he''ll resist and jump-out. What you do instead is, you turn the heat-up REAL SLOW, and by the time the water is boiling he won''t be able to jump out anymore, because it''s too late--he''s already doomed.

[alphaa10-2009]

Ever considered the parallels between Musharraf and Saddam?

Both maintained secret police agencies that matched the Gestapo for cruelty. Both aspired to be "populists" in the sense of broad popular support, yet routinely pitted one social class or religious group against another.

While claiming to represent the wishes of their people, both scourged every effort at democratic reforms and hounded political opposition into exile.

Both defied the rule of law, establishing themselves as the ultimate authority. Both were bitter enemies of certain Islamic religious hierarchs, and clashes between the army/secret police and Islamic clergy were frequent and bloody.

One or both dictators were hailed by a president named Bush as staunch allies in the region.

Both dictators considering becoming a nuclear power, but Musharraf managed to do it-- all the while, under the non-proliferation scrutiny of both the US and Europe.

After 911, congress told Bush to find bin Laden in Afghanistan. Enlisting the aid of Pakistan, Bush pointedly did not demand Pakistan surrender its bombs. Nor did he seriously question Pakistan''''s nuclear transfers to other Islamic states of Iran, Libya, and Malasia. Or even those to North Korea.

Instead, he praised Musharraf, whose regime had winked at nuclear proliferation for some 30 years, and attacked... Iraq.

[zootallures2]

Posted by michaelt302 at 01:51 AM : Nov 04, 2007

Tell me michaelt302, *** were Israelis doing at the Olympics in Germany????? I think the PLO not only spoke for the desecration and murder of Arabs, but for any sane Israelite! Why don''t you Ashkenazis go to Germany and stay there. What are you atheistic sadistic satan worshipping swines doing in the Holyland? AshkeNAZI... nazi, Hitler, that''s you!

[zootallures2]

Zertrat , you are so wrong, so completely moronic, it''''s hard to know where to begin. Let''''s start here: you said "Twenty years ago, things were fine". Oh really? In 1987 all was fine? Wow, tell that to the 11 Israelis murdered at the 1972 Olympics by Muslims, simply because they were Jewish. Tell that to the 18 civilians killed in cold blood in 1985 in Vienna and Rome by the PLO, simply because they were standing near an El Al ticket counter.

Posted by michaelt302 at 01:51 AM : Nov 04, 2007

You can''t pull that garbage anymore.
Look at how the 52 hostages who were in Iran and working against Iran were treated compared to innocent Iraqis who were not in the u.s. and did nothing to the u.s. were treated in Abu Ghraibe.

The 52 hostages were freed unharmed while the u.s. is killing, torturing and raping children. So I would imagine it had alot more to do than just being jewish. For starters, the Israelis were where? The 1972 Olympics were in Germany. You go there for the Olympics and trade with Germany, while you take the holocaust out on the Arabs. You can''t solve problems with who can fool the most people for the most time. You have to use logic and face the real problem.

[famulla-2009]

Sir
I still see General Mussharf in the army dress and not the civilina and asking USA to see that Pakistan stays in his power. He is taking good cares of the Taliban in the west
I thank you
Firozali A.Mulla MBA PhD
P.O.Box 6044
Dar-Es-Salaam
Tanzania
East Africa

[downtowner97]

Remember those antrax letters? Few do. They were sent out during the time our representatives and senators were supposed to be reading the Patriot Act to decide whether they wanted to sign it. They ended up signing it because they didn''''t want anthrax. The ONLY thing we know about that antrax is that it was produced in a US military facility. There was a bigger effort to go after steroid use in pro sports than there was to find out who mailed the antrhax. The Patriot Act gives our president AND vice president dictator-like powers.

How is the situation in Pakistan that different from what is happening in the US?

[mh4cbs1]

After 911 the world was sympathetic and supported the US in going after Osama Bin Forgotten.

But the Cheney Bush fascist SOBs exploited 911. They scared Americans with fake color-coded terror alerts, and with blatant, deliberate LIES about WMDs.

Then they morphed Osama into Saddam, using fake stories about links between Saddam and Al Qaeada. By the time our thug rulers were done, more than 1/2 of America believed that Saddam had involvement in 911.

After the LIES came the INVASION. Shock and Awe. Sounds Hitler-esque, and it was. Cities lie in ruins and hundreds of thousands are DEAD. Our Blackwater civilian killers are just the latest part of the horror show.

Bottom Line -- Bush and Cheney have FUELED anti-American anger, resentment, revenge. They have helped justify the cause of Osama as he recruits his followers.

Now the fueled flames are heating up Pakistan where both Osama Bin Forgotten and Nuclear Weapons DO exist.

Peace was Possible. The American people, kept ignorant by the 6 corporate media machines that own 98% of the news outlets, let Bush/Cheney and the complicit Democrats LIE their way into Iraq.

Now we get payback for the actions of our sick and disgusting politicians.

Bush and Cheney BELONG IN JAIL. They are lying murderous thugs who are running our nation into the ground with the help of spineless Democrats.

[feelfree1]

If/when Bush declares martial law, I wonder if he will be wearing one of these neat New World Order outfits, like the one that Pervez is wearing in his latest video?

[zertrat]

Dear Genius MichaelT,
Please note that my response to your last email shows up earlier in the sequence (maybe daylight savings time). Hope you enjoy.
Your sincere moron,
Zertrat

[feelfree1]

I guess that the CBS Web administrators fell "down" instead of "back", this year.

[feelfree1]

rudy654,

Re: "There is absolutely no reason to suspended constitutional protections of rights and scare people. Extremists are the ones who don''t like constitutional protections. They are the ones who, when in power, cancel those rights. Why do you think that is? Because it threatens them for people to be free to think for themselves. If this man is as sensible as you say he is, then he wouldn''t have pulled this. Freedom has always been a threat to extremism."

I tip my hat in your general direction.

[zertrat]

Dear MichaelT,
You are just an out-of-control fact killer. There are 1.2 billion Muslims? Wrong, more, way more. "Most have disliked or barely tolerated the US and the West for over 50 years." Wrong, there are far fewer Muslims in the world who have disliked us for 50 years than 1.2 billion, because the mortality curve in the Muslim world is low due to poverty and poor health care. So if you don''t understand that sentence, that means most Muslims who are in this world, and whatever subset do not like us, are not 50 years old. And it is so sad what you say about Muslims, "that most have disliked or barely tolerated the US." Hanging crime, I say!! I can barely tolerate a couple of colleagues. Send Bush in to kill em all! Barely toleration should be a crime under American law of freedom, much less an international law where other countries are allowed to right their own laws and intolerances.

MichaelT, please help us rid the world of those who can barely tolerate us. You seem to have the toleration skills equal to the task.

[feelfree1]

Check it out-

I responded to a poster who only fist appeared at 1:48, with comments that I supposedly made at 1:08, and 1:10...?

Heckuva'' job CBS!

Has the writers'' strike started yet?

[rudy654-2009]

General Musharraf%u2019s decision to impose emergency in Pakistan is absolutely right. And majority of the public is favoring General Musharraf%u2019s decision. General Musharraf is right man to stop extremism in Pakistan which is spreading dangerously and the corrupt politicians of Pakistan will be able to stop these dangerous terrorists. Every sensible Pakistani is with General Musharraf and supports his emergency%u2019s decision.
Posted by faisalnawaz at 12:33 AM

There is absolutely no reason to suspended constitutional protections of rights and scare people. Extremists are the ones who don''t like constitutional protections. They are the ones who, when in power, cancel those rights. Why do you think that is? Because it threatens them for people to be free to think for themselves. If this man is as sensible as you say he is, then he wouldn''t have pulled this. Freedom has always been a threat to extremism.

[feelfree1]

Odd. This landed in the wrong spot:

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famulla,

"A. Mulla"?

Subtle..

Do you know how "A. Terrarist" comes down on this issue?

[feelfree1]

famulla,

"A. Mulla"?

Subtle..

Do you know how "A. Terrarist" comes down on this issue?

[pugster]

Bush, the supporter of fascism and executive powers. That is nothing new.