Musharraf to retain his army post(Pakistan)

[jayfish]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3660256.stm

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Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf is to stay on as head of the armed forces despite a previous pledge to stand down by January.
Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said: "The president will keep both the posts. The national situation demands he keeps the two offices."
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Democracies don't seem to be doing all that well right now.

Jay

[chelsea0011]

1. Well, of course. How do you coup d'etat without leading an army?

[allemand]

2. Also, how do you prevent a new coup d'etat without leading the army? n/t

[jayfish]

3. Gotta Be one Of The Longest Coups In History.

He should just declare himself the divinely appointed "Supreme Ruler" of Pakistan and get it over with.

Jay

[montanacowboy]

4. Ha Ha *'s Democracy busting out all over....

Chimpco's little dictator pals, Mushareff, Putin, he looked into their souls....... hell yes he did, they are all cut out of the same material - Yep, we sure are spreading that good old Democracy..

[tom_paine]

5. The Age of Totalitarianism has begun

Will any part of the Free World survive to the 22nd Century?

I doubt it.

I am becoming more and more convinced that Tyranny is the Default Condition for the Human Species, and right now water is seeking it's own level, as it were, after being dammed up since after Old America defeated Hitler.

Now, of course, Imperial Amerika is Kinder and Gentler Hitler.