Fears About a Would-Be Leader’s Mental Health

Oh, no,you makes a mistake,
when you think about the mental condition,
of the president.

pls be condiered the near past,
effeciency in the election,
which the tough procedure,
through which he defeated opposit side,
and gained the destination,

The leaders,
on otherside,having longstanding political experience,
lost the game,
could not approarched presidency,
but he sccessed expressing his credibity,

Arw you talking about safety of nuclear weapons,
in pakistan,
-pls don't worry,he has quality,experince,
experience as political prisoner as well as leader,
not a convicted person like Nawaz Sharif,
all the court of the country,
all the foriegn judicial system has been failed held guilty.

You will see his dealing with insurgency,
and maintain9ing foriegn relations with all power,
countries including china,India,
and middle east states,

It is admireable,
economy under his leadership,
is taking a good shape,
about which every one was saying that,
it is uncontrolable task.

Pakistans Millitary is the one who is supporting the millitants against America. Muslim radicals are now in power and they will NOT take any actions against the people who are against America. Pakistan's Millitary and Saudi regime is well organised religious fanatics and was responsible for poviding logistics support for 9/11 terrorists. They speak soft from outside to get our $10 Billion support and turn around and plan against us. Pakistan do not have any scruples or piety and they are bent on destroying USA, India and Afganistan to promote religious supermacy. Now the Mentally unstable guy is inchage of the Atomic Bomb? and every Pakistani is supporting the regime? America has to take care of their BOMB first otherwise they will pay a priced in the long run.

Zardari has been voted president and behold, Pakistan is saddled with an ex-convict still facing criminal charges both at home and abroad as president. With the Taliban and al quaida closing in on Pakistan from all fronts, sooner or later, the country would become another 'naco-nation' or 'failed state'. Africa could not have done better.

America has had the same problem for 8 long yrs.
Mccain is another worry when it comes to mental illness !!!

Are we really concerned with this possible leaders mental health after being imprisoned and having his wife assisinated? He shouldnt be able to rule a country with Nuclear capabilities?? Does the same reasoning apply to the U.S.? It should, Is anyone concerned about John McCains years as a POW???????? And the post traumatic stress that involves. They should be. Do we really want a war loving traumatized vet leading our country?? Not to mention Ronald Reagan who had alzheimers during his presidency and the Republicans thought he was the best president of all time. The U.S should really stop looking for the flaws in other leaders and countries and start recognizing them in our own.

No matter who is/become the boss in Pakistan, he will always manage to make a fool of the U.S in regards to Pakistan's role in the war against Taliban/al Qaeda. Pakistan has played and will always play a double game for that matter, at the expense of U.S utter naivety.

No matter who is/become the boss in Pakistan - a healthy man or an ill one, he certainly manages to make a fool of U.S, again and again in regad to Pakistan's role in the war agains terrorism. Pakistan will always play a double game when it comes to the question of Taliban/al Qaeda, at the expense of U.S utter naivety.
Safiullah Tazib

I worry about Bush and Cheney being in the nuclear chain of command.

I saw the headline and expected a story about McCain.

someone with clout should demand that mccain release his va medical file. he has only released his civilian file. as a former va claims adjudicator, i imagine that the file contains a litany of mental and physical disorders, which is the usual fate for most pow's. if a pow calls the va with a new claim, all he/she needs is a physician's statement that he has a certain disorder and it is added as service-connected; he/she does not need to show nexus.

Asif Ali Zardari cannot replace Musharraf, he could only fill the vacancy, which of course would lead to nothing else but a total national disaster. The intent to implant this man into the president's position should be immediately abandoned.
Kabil Azad Khan.
Montreal, Canada.

Anyone who tries to question McCains mental health due to his war time torture and imprisionment should also then must question Obamas mental health ddue to his peacetime drug and cocaine use.

I'm not sure I am grasping the difference in Mr Zardari's imprisonment and Mr. McCain's. We are considering them both men to be in command of countries with nuclear weapons.

The word "elision" is improperly used in the article. A simple word like omission would have been acurate.

I thought this was about McSame until I jumped to the article!

I'm surprised that US officials are outraged that a mentally-ill individual could be involved in a nuclear chain of command, particularly as a lot of people would not consider the current President of the United States all-together sane. If you think about it,he fits the 'anxious, apprehensive, emotionally unstable, demented, delusional and faulty memory' bill perfectly with his rants about "weapons of mass destruction in Iraq," "persistent threat of a terrorist strike on US soil," "I don't know why the rest of the world hates Americans," "The White House does not fabricate evidence," "The White House did not authorise the dismissal of attorneys." Need I go on?
So let's see about removing the plank from your own eye before trying to help someone with their speck.

And that's not to say all is well in Pakistan either. But you know what, let Pakistan choose who it want to be leader. The US should stop running interference, including mouthing off on other people's choices. Thanks to the US, the people of Palestine democratically elected Hamas -- yay for democracy!

funny how the world now knows something that the common Pakistani man/woman has known for years!!! This man is obviously nuts, is obviously corrupt and has no intentions of changing anything and someone is crazy enough to put HIM in charge??! how can a country succeed or move along, if the leadership can't even find a semi-sane person to lead??!!