President Musharaf is going to resign today. Confirmed report. Whereas, Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan Peoples Party will be the next President of Pakistan in his place. Then there will be a new record that:
Husband a President
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Wife a Prime Minister,
“The White House had concocted a fake letter from
Obligatory quotes from the likes of Bill O’Reilly are included which helped spread the fabrication written about at the end of 2003 on the front page of the London Daily Telegraph the very day they (supposedly?) captured Saddam, and the reporter was interviewed on Meet The Press soon after. The letter was crafted by the CIA, but used to “prove” the 9/11 hijackers were connected and even trained by Iraq.
They absolutely lied us into a war. Suskind seems to concentrate on the angle that it was illegal to use the CIA this way, influencing domestic politics, and that’s grounds for impeachment. It seems to me there’s got to be a law somewhere out there that mandates the gas chamber for anyone who commits mass murder on the scale this represents. The invasion of Iraq was not an act of war, it was an act of homicidal mania.
The author also claims that the Bush administration had information from a top Iraqi intelligence official “that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq – intelligence they received in plenty of time to stop an invasion.”
Evidently, they secreted Habbush to Jordan and paid him $5 million in hush money, even though he still has a $1 million bounty on his head at the State Department.
The legendary tone-deafness and refusal to listen to advice that didn’t match the White House’s pre-conceived notions is also explored as well as a study on the rise of “plausible deniability” to a high art form under Dick Cheney’s influence.
So just how much time and money and lives did it cost us to go through the motions and act like they were really looking for WMD’s they knew weren’t there?
And for that matter, do you really trust them when the likes of Osama bin Laden conveniently shows up on our TV screens on the eve of an election, his authenticity “verified” by a CIA who could also magically produce letters “proving” the biggest lie of the 21st century?
Somebody’s got to charge someone with a goddamn crime sooner or later dammit, or we might as well shut this charade we call Truth, justice and the American Way down.
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Article 58(2)(b) V / S democracy in Pakistan.
In 1999, the Pakistan Army General Pervez Musharaf assumed power in a military-lead bloodless coup. Among the reasons he gave for doing so were the destruction of institutional checks and balances, and the prevailing corruption in the political leadership. The Supreme Court later validated the removal of ex Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif on the grounds that the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments resulted in a situation for which there was no constitutional remedy.
In October 2002, elections were held in Pakistan. In December 2003, Parliament passed the 17th amendment, which partially restored the President’s reserve power to dissolve Parliament and thus remove the Prime Minister from office, but made it subject to Supreme Court approval.
Now the Pakistani Nation have got another Breaking News today that the Pakistan Peoples Party and the Pakistan Muslim League (N) jointly with other Political parties coalition have started their campaign against the President Musharaf for an impeachment. Which will be started from the Provincial Assemblies of Pakistan in this week. The said steps towards the democracy verses the President of Pakistan.
It will be a wise step of Mr. Pervez Musharaf at this stage, if he shall resign from the office of the President of Pakistan and leave the country in the best interest of Pakistan’s democracy as well as for his own family. Otherwise, he can be arrested after the successful impeachment against him from the National Assembly and could face various swear criminal charges in future.
With the passage of time since America’s military attack on Iraq in 2003 more lies of the White House are being exposed. In the latest exposure, it has been found that the US had faked a letter from former Iraqi intelligence minister, Tahir Jalil Habbush addressed to Saddam Hussein. In the letter it was mentioned that the former Baathist regime had links with Muhammed Atta, one of the hijackers in the 9/11 incident.
Later, to justify the need to take on Saddam’s Iraq, the Bush White House published the fake letter in the media. However, with the publication of the book ’In the Way of the World’ by Ron Suskind it has been proved that the letter was fake.
The book also mentions that in a meeting with a high-ranking British spy, Habbush had said that Iraq under the former despot did not have any weapons of mass destruction. But this piece of important information was never released by the Bush regime and its neocon war planners.
Of course this is not the first time that Washington’s lies and demagoguery regarding the Iraq war have been exposed. It was previously reported that although George Bush knew that claims about Saddam trying to buy uranium from Nigeria were untrue, he raised the issue by design in his State of Union address in January 2003 to prepare US public opinion for military conflict with Iraq.
In the months between Sept. 2001 and March 2003, senior American officials time and again accused Iraq of trying to acquire WMDs and/or having links with the terrorist group Al-Qaeda. In one calculated spin former US secretary of state, Colin Powell, in a session of the UN Security Council on Feb. 5, 2003 presented documents showing that Iraq possessed mobile chemical laboratories.
Under a climate influenced by psychological war tactics, the project for invading Iraq was launched on March 20, 2003. Ever since, the non winning able war has become a terrible nightmare for the American people after the disastrous Vietnam War that killed close to three million innocent Vietnamese. Bush’s war on Iraq has so far killed one million people, mostly women and children.
This is while all the claims made by the White House and its minions to justify the senseless bloodletting have actually been rooted in politics, greed, oil and disinformation.
The truth is that in 2003 neither Iraq had access to WMDs nor did it have any relation with Al-Qaeda. But, none of these facts were of importance to America’s unpopular war president and his infamous deputy. Bush enclave at that time only wanted to occupy Iraq and spared no effort to lie and fabricated documents to achieve their evil goals. It would be fair to bill the war on Iraq as the greatest war of lies in contemporary times.
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International Society of Investigative Journalism (ISIJ). 