I have said it before: While totalitarianism must constantly be reinventing itself to "resell" itself to target audiences that have rejected the old form of the product in the past, it's tools remain limited.
Intimidation.
Orwellian Lies.
Shock and pain.
Fraud.
Grand Theft.
Murder.
The Bushies, like the Italians in the 20s and the Nazis in the 30s, have created something wholly new. This in itself is disarming...the capacity to astonish, and yet the New Totalitarianism that rules Russia and China could not have claimed America without further reinventing itself and calling upon the vast sciences of advertising, PR, and marketing.
There is little surprise that Bhutto would die like Aquino, except that our Bushies have learned from past mistakes, killing two birds with one stone, assassinating a Bushie Enemy and using her corpse to wave the Bloody Flag of the New Totalitarianism .
"See, we told you the War on Terror requires ever-increasing sacrifices of liberty. Now STFU and cower in a corner, oh Imperial Subjects!"Other than that little wrinkle, the murders of Bhutto and Aquino, Kennedy, Kennedy and King stand together in the annals of Bushie Victims.
The murders of Bhutto, Kennedy, Kennedy and King stand out among these because the old "Lone Gunman" saw is trotted out to obscure the obvious question of "Cui bono?"
"Cui bono?" "Who benefits?" One thing shine clears in all of these murders, they ALWAYS benefit the Bushies and their pals. Always. Quite a coincidence, that.
The exception to this was the murder of Aquino, which benefited the Bushies in the short-run but not the long, who's ham-fisted assassination meant Marcos must have been behind on his readings of Bushie Ed Luttwak, vis a vis the proper way to assassinate enemies while providing yourself with
Plausible Deniability.
Plausible Deniability, the mother's milk of the Evil Bushies. Just enough of that good old squid-ink, so that people will always wonder,
Did they REALLY do it again? I have just a shred of doubt that makes me hesitate...The murders of Kennedy, Kennedy, King, and Bhutto all have the patina of plausible deniability for the Bushies. Marcos was ultimately overthrown because he ignored this key element of Bushie Strategy. He overtly had his "Blackwater Folks" gun down Aquino on the tarmac.
No plausible deniability, and a Bushie Vassal falls a few years later. Not to worry, the Bushies were patient and a Bushie Vassal now sits upon the "throne" of the Philippines once again. She will not make the same mistakes the last Bushie Vassal Dictator did when murdering her opponents.
Anyway, I just wanted to bring a little historical perspective to this, and to wonder aloud if the Bushies will soon (within the next two decades) be eschewing the "niceties" of murder-by-plane-crash for the more direct approach as they practiced here in the 60s?
"They are sheep. Easily dispersed if we strike the shepherd."
--Bushie Edward the Longshanks in "Braveheart"
Some things never change, ESPECIALLY when we live in a nation going back to a pre-1776 condition as quickly as the Bushie Marketers can sell it it us.
NOTE: We can never be sure that Busharraf killed Bhutto, but we are ill-served by failing to connect the dots to what is clearly the most arch-criminal elemment in America, and has been so for at LEAST 70 years. Don't believe me?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20070723.shtml