Bob Giramma wrote: > Musharraf is a corrupt dictator, but he's better than the > alternative.
Sort of like the Shaw of Iran is better than the alternative, the clerics? But what was even better was Mohammed Mosaddeq who was elected by popular vote but deposed by the US/CIA because he was a nationalist and thought Iranian resources should primarily benefit Iranians. he nationalized the oil industry pissing off the British and Americans who orchestrated the Coup d'etate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Mossadeq There are better alternatives than Musharraf like a real real non-fixed election. Steve > "Most of the world" is wrong about Israel, and apparently you, too. The > people of Israel are easily the most free, and run the most humane > government, in the region. Absolutely not true. If you live in the occupied territories Israel's management will not allow you to earn an honest living and take care of your family in peace, Israel won't allow you to get decent health care and get to a hospital without being detained with long check point delays, Israel won't allow you to enjoy quality imports, Israel won't allow you trade freely with your neighbors, Israel won't allow you to travel more than 5 miles without waiting hours in Israel checkpoints and being intimated and treated poorly, and Israel will take land to build walls, cut down orchards, kill off farm animals, disrupt education, and in many ways work to prevent any kind of structural peace. If I lived in the occupied territories, I would want to kill a few Israels too. After all, being a perfectly law abiding and honest hard working person can get you killed by American funded armor and munitions simply by sitting in living room or walking to the market to get some food. Law abiding and honest hard work doesn't provide any safety benefits over joining the resistance to the occupation. -- Steve - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Take World's Smallest Political Quiz at http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz.html "If a thousand old beliefs were ruined on our march to truth we must still march on." --Stopford Brooke
