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...forced into a partnership with the President just to save her political career. "It's a damned-if-you-do and damned-if-you-don't type situation," says onetime Bhutto adviser Murtaza Poya. "She has lost quite a few notches, definitely. The only thing she can tell supporters now is that 'If I don't make the deal I can assure you somebody else is going to make...
...steps down as military chief, or that Bhutto as Prime Minister will be able to control the army. "The Pakistani army is a one-man show. Whoever is chief gets to call the shots. And if you send the army back to the barracks, no civilian leader can tell them what to do." Gul says that in trying to influence the political process in Pakistan, the U.S. is playing with fire. Just as Bhutto has been tainted by her relationship with Musharraf, the President is sullied by his relationship with Washington. Warns Gul: "The more the people of Pakistan become...
...There is a wide gap between what the polls tell us about campaign frontrunners and the popularity of those same candidates on the Web. The latest numbers from the Gallup Republican Poll put Rudy Giuliani on top, with 32% of support from Republican field, followed by recent announcee Fred Thompson, with 19%. Ron Paul, who has over 61,000 friends on MySpace, is in sixth place with only...
...They hadn’t really been very forthcoming with us—they didn’t tell us they were getting this consulting company,” Castine said...
...easy to convince a people to go to war, one political leader wrote. "All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifist for a lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country." Robert Byrd declaimed that quote to the Senate, as Congress was debating whether to authorize the President to go to war against Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Then Byrd read the source: Hermann Goering...