Pictures can say so much

Here is a photo of the police who have surrounded Benazir Bhutto’s residence in Islamabad.

The “Anti Terrorist Squad” on the officer’s shirt sums up perfectly the recent actions by Musharraf.  He says he is imposing martial law because of the threat of terrorism, and then he turns the police on Pakistan’s own political leaders. 
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Democracy is a long forgotten ideal

Everyone knows that the Bush administration doesn’t really care about democracy. They have taken away people’s rights in the United States (wiretapping, imprisonment, and the lack of habeas corpus to name a few). They abandoned any hope for democracy in Egypt a few years ago. The US supports the Saudi authoritarian monarchy [...]