A Hero for Democracy?

don't make the world foolish by the name of war on terrorism.

Both Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto were brought back to Pakistan from exile under US pressure. Since Musharraf is a recalcitrant US dog, the US brought in the other well mannered freshly trained dogs ( or rather a dog and a ***). The terrorists are not an issue here. It is OIL. Pakistan under Pervez Musharraf has agreed on the $7.4billion gas pipeline connecting Iran to India via Pakistan. This will put in a big hole in the bucket on the sanctions against Iran for its nuclear program. The US was not able to pressure India to abort the deal and Musharraf is going through with the project. Benazir neither die for democracy nor for Pakistan - she died for the US.

This is response to most of SKVAM's comments and posts.

No one will sweat about anything what you said,, its just an example of "Trash comes out of trashy minds ". Better to leave the trash alone.

How could someone who never had or believed in fair elections within her party ( she was a lifelong chairperson of her party) have the courage to stand in front of the world that she believed in democracy.

Mahatma Gandhi (PBUH) showed mankind the way of peace. Nelson Mandela (PBUH) and Mother Teresa (PBUH) have shown us to love the 'other'. Religion causes differences among people and is un Godly.

MUSLIMS THAT ARE MODERATES AND peaceful are susceptible to the indoctrination of the JIHAD chapter. At any time a young MUSLIM can change and carry out an attack in the name of GOD. THIS IS WHY THE CHApter of JIHAD is so dangerous. WE have kids in this country who have grown up in this country, falling under the spell. Suicide bombers are even doctors and lawyers who are citizens in western countries. The crusades happened centuries ago. Your religion has not evolved it is still in the MEDIEVAL AGES and this is a big problem. This is why BHUTTO was so visciously assassinated. IT WAS A TERRORIST WEARING BLACK GLASSES THAT CARRIED OUT THE ASSISSINATION' WOW WHAT A MESSAGE, BHUTTO USED TO WEAR AMERICAN BLACK GLASSES. THERE are MILLIONS OF pakistanis that have rejected western culture and they have sent their message. IT HAS BEEN HEARD WITH A BANG AROUND THE WORLD

Comment: Is this democracy or a family dynasty. Either you have democracy or you do not. Handing leadership to family members is the source of corruption. What a chocie, corruption and an American runned government or the Military. We need to let people choose their destiny if not we will be stuck where we do not belong. I as an American am distrurbed that we are medaling all around the world, while people on this side are starving, homeless, without health care ectt.... THis is crazy, just because Bhutto dies we would choose a nut like Guilliani.
Even moderate Muslims are swayed by the JIHAD CHApter. The offspring of these moderates have already carried out attacks in England and have tried in Canada and AMerica.Wow. Homegrown Citizens. What is amazing is how they are influenced by the Iraq war. They turn on the T.V and become enraged. It is like they have smelled "BAD BARBECUE". Their only hope to strike back is JIHAD. Remember Muslims have been indoctrinating their own for centuries. They have finally perfected it. This chapter allows leaders to indoctrinate their people all around the world. The " Ayattolah" has used this doctrine on Salman Rushdie who is an INDIAN. The only way to deal with a nuclear threat, is in private. We should gurantee all countries FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS. However if the people choose an extremist government that wants to use weapons of mass destruction then they must understand the consequences. IT IS THESE SAME CONSEQUENCES THAT have DETERed RUSSIA FROM USING THEIR NUCLEAR ARSERNAL AS MUSCLE. WE WILL Annihlate YOU if you threaten with nuclear weapons. That is why the Middle East Governments threaten Israel because they know better. The same goes for pakistan, any government that takes power after Free and Fair Elections, will be delivered the same message, In addition, they will assist us in the HUNT FOR BIN LADEN. Keeping Bin LADEN alive seems to be making a lot of people rich.

No one person can bring change, it takes a movement. Bhutto's death could have started this movement. Or it could of ended a movement. Only time will tell. This was prophesized that a woman leader would be assassinated and that it would impact the whole globe. Everyone thought it was a possible referal to an American president. Who thought it would have been Bhutto. THe extremist movement still has uncontrolled grudges against the Clinton's. Hillary Clinton could fuel the extremist cause. This extremist movement views "things" different. I felt bad when I heard the news partly because Bhutto was a women. To us it is an unspeakable crime but to others who belong to powerful extermist movements it is "nothing". These people do not care. We need Obama as president in order to fuel the peace process. Our best chance at peace and security is OBAMA. We need someone who's chief policy makers believe in the movement for peace and prospeity for all. One who understands that our troops are dying and that this issue is more important than their own personal political careers. After the assassination of JFK and Martin Luther KIng, the civil rights MOVEMENT succeeded under the Jonhnson administration in having civil rights legislation passed into law. It was a MOVEMENT that could not be stopped. Bin Laden is a god to extremist, he is their BHUTTO, extremist have no problems committting atrocities. In fact it is their dream, it is their end goal in life. This is why we cannot let these extremist continue to multiply. Obama is our best chance. He is also intelligent enough to know Russia and it's breakaway republics in Central Asia as well as the technological advancement of CHina and it blatent theft of intellectual property is a threat that needs to be dealt with.
THERE IS A DIRECT LINK BETWEEN BHUTTO AND AMERICAN POLITICS. Her death is a wake uP call to all Politicians and Voters

I agree she had two opportunities as an elected prime minister. But let me refresh your memory and recall reality. When she competed in the elections the first time, the military empire via the ISI created the IJI (Islami Jumhorri Itehad). This was a clandestine attempt to deny her power as Bhutto or any other Politician of stature is considered the threat to the Military Empire and the Bureaucracy. She won the elections, but was denied power for 16 days as the Military and Bureaucratic Mob (aka Ghulam Ishaq Khan the interim President) very craftily negotiated with her to give up as much power as possible. Ghulam Ishaq Khan (like Musharraf now) got elected as the President by virtually putting a gun on her head and was able to keep 95% of the power that typically is in the hands of an elected Prime Minister. Military service Chiefs were answerable to the President and not to her. She became a Prime Minister who was no more than the Mayor of Islamabad/Chairperson of the CDA. ISI insured that the most powerful province of Punjab was ruled by their newly created alliance the IJI (the sole called champion of democracy Mr. Nawaz Sharif played totally in the hands of the Military intelligence). If she started a development project for the poor in his province he would get that project stopped and unlimited turf battles were on the cards. The Generals and the Bureaucracy were so pleased to see these fire works. Everything was going on as per plans.....even better. To add fuel to fire she had a husband who did not do any great service to her by his not so prudent behavior, He was no Dennis Thatcher. She had no support from the powers that have had a major stake in running Pakistan and its eventual callous progress. She was a newly crowned Queen who had no one to groom her. Their were conspiracies after conspiracies hatched because it was impossible to let a leader be created for the country of Pakistan as the Generals and The Bureaucratic elite would than have to return to their not so lucrative jobs and the resources of the country would not have been so easy to plunder. Military Empire and the Bureaucratic elite did their best and succeeded in their effort to make her fall from grace and Benazir Bhutto despite her Charisma but lack of experience was made to look what she was not. This is how the Generals of the Pakistan Army and the Bureaucracy insure that no political leader worth his/her name can politically survive. And if they happen to survive politically and make a place in peoples hearts than they are removed from the scene in some other way.... be it Fatima Jinnah (rig the elections),be it Mujeeb ur Rehman (they would lose half the country in the process). be it Nawaz Sharif (throw him in exile and when he returns deport him, returns again disbar him from taking part in elections) and be it the daughter of the east........rest in peace our heroine.

I agree she had two opportunities as an elected prime minister. But let me refresh your memory and recall reality. When she competed in the elections the first time, the military empire via the ISI created the IJI (Islami Jumhorri Itehad). This was a clandestine attempt to deny her power as Bhutto or any other Politician of stature is considered the threat to the Military Empire and the Bureaucracy. She won the elections, but was denied power for 16 days as the Military and Bureaucratic Mob (aka Ghulam Ishaq Khan the interim President) very craftily negotiated with her to give up as much power as possible. Ghulam Ishaq Khan (like Musharraf now) got elected as the President by virtually putting a gun on her head and was able to keep 95% of the power that typically is in the hands of an elected Prime Minister. Military service Chiefs were answerable to the President and not to her. She became a Prime Minister who was no more than the Mayor of Islamabad/Chairperson of the CDA. ISI insured that the most powerful province of Punjab was ruled by their newly created alliance the IJI (the sole called champion of democracy Mr. Nawaz Sharif played totally in the hands of the Military intelligence). If she started a development project for the poor in his province he would get that project stopped and unlimited turf battles were on the cards. The Generals and the Bureaucracy were so pleased to see these fire works. Everything was going on as per plans.....even better. To add fuel to fire she had a husband who did not do any great service to her by his not so prudent behavior, He was no Dennis Thatcher. She had no support from the powers that have had a major stake in running Pakistan and its eventual callous progress. She was a newly crowned Queen who had no one to groom her. Their were conspiracies after conspiracies hatched because it was impossible to let a leader be created for the country of Pakistan as the Generals and The Bureaucratic elite would than have to return to their not so lucrative jobs and the resources of the country would not have been so easy to plunder. Military Empire and the Bureaucratic elite did their best and succeeded in their effort to make her fall from grace and Benazir Bhutto despite her Charisma but lack of experience was made to look what she was not. This is how the Generals of the Pakistan Army and the Bureaucracy insure that no political leader worth his/her name can politically survive. And if they happen to survive politically and make a place in peoples hearts than they are removed from the scene in some other way.... be it Fatima Jinnah (rig the elections),be it Mujeeb ur Rehman (they would lose half the country in the process). be it Nawaz Sharif (throw him in exile and when he returns deport him, returns again disbar him from taking part in elections) and be it the daughter of the east........rest in peace our heroine.

I think she was most influential while she was alive.

I am greatly disturbed by this act of brutality...but is Banazir Bhutto a hero for democracy? She may be an influential democratically elected Prime Minister of a democratic country but a hero for democracy I think she is not. Why? She had two opportunities as a premier and she blew it all. In the first bout she was fired in 1990 for corruption and again in 1996 she was fired for making a big mess of a govt. (the big mess stem from her appointment of her husband Asif Ali Zardari as the Investment Minister from 1993 to 1996). And now she wanted to do it again for the third time...OMG what another big mess she would create should she succeeded...well, I kind of feel no remorse for her demise except by the brutal and painful method she had to go thru!Democratically she will go down in history as a figure that we shall not look up upon.

We are in big trouble extremist and children of moderates all around the world are being seduced by the chapter of JIHAD. If you look at the Madrassa's they are brainwashing futre genereations in that region with the chapter of JIHAD. IT is like subliminal indoctrination. This is very dangerous. THEY ARE TEACHING THE CHILDREN TO FIGHT JIHAD FOR one hundred years. Obama is the only candidate that can change antiamericanism in that region. It just feels right voting for OBAMA