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...viewed by many as the party's chief strategist, as well as a mentor for Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who is in her 13th year of house arrest for leading Burma's ongoing pro-democracy movement. The generals believed he "was my puppet master," Suu Kyi once wrote of Win Tin. Bo Kyi Win of the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners in Burma, a Thailand-based exile group, said, "They kept him so long because they were afraid...
What did you think of your puppet in Team America: World Police? -Mahmoud Salem, CairoI thought Team America was so funny. Kim Jong Il would say, "You are usewess to me, Awec Bawdwin." And I'd go to school with my daughter, and her classmates would say that as I walked by. I hear these little kids go, "You are usewess to me, Awec Bawdwin." And I'd be looking at them like, Ha, ha, great- back at you there, Kim Jong. I thought that movie was hysterical. Those guys are insane...
...crowds still camped outside Samak's former offices are not impressed. The demonstrators, who call themselves the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), had been calling for Samak's ouster ever since he took office, labeling him nothing more than a puppet of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who himself had been deposed by a bloodless military coup in 2006. A billionaire tycoon who now lives in self-imposed exile in Britain, Thaksin has been charged with corruption in several different cases. (On the same day Somchai was voted in, the Supreme Court issued a third arrest warrant against Thaksin...
...sovereign, and the President would be subservient to the house of the people's representatives," but the relief that announcement brought will count for little if he gets tagged as Washington's man, particularly if he retains powers that many believe are unconstitutional. "Musharraf was seen as America's puppet, and now with Zardari, people think it's the same continuation of policies," says Sherpao. "It would be better for him, and for America, if he just stands in the background and gives advice to the Prime Minister...
...radicalism as a tool of policy for strategic depth in Afghanistan, well, I wish to tell them it won't work. The best strategic depth in Afghanistan is friendship, cooperation. Afghanistan is willing to build that kind of relationship: cooperation, not weaponry, not sanctuary, not undermining, not seeking a puppet state. That will not happen, period...