Musharraf expected to resign.
Musharraf expected to resign.
The New York Times reports that Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, a close ally of President Bush, “is expected to resign in the next few days rather than face impeachment charges”:
Mr. Musharraf was expected to resign before the governing coalition presented charges for impeachment to the Parliament early next week, said Nisar Ali Khan, a senior official in the Pakistani Muslim League-N, the minority partner in the coalition government.
Similarly, Sheikh Mansoor Ahmed, a senior official of the Pakistan Peoples Party, the major party in the coalition, said Thursday that the president would probably leave in the “next 72 hours.”
“The United States is now accepting Musharraf’s removal as a fait accompli,” said Nisar Ali Khan, a senior official in the Pakistani Muslim League-N.
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August 14th, 2008 at 3:05 pmPresident Pervez Musharraf… “is expected to resign in the next few days rather than face impeachment charges”
– - Dennis Kucinich too busy canoodling with his statuesque wife to offer a comment.
August 14th, 2008 at 3:07 pmHe should have started wiretapping his government officials sooner like bush and he wouldn’t be in this mess.
August 14th, 2008 at 3:08 pmIt’s official. The US government is more corrupt than that of Pakistan. Congrats, Shrub.
August 14th, 2008 at 3:10 pmNow, if only Bush/Cheney, Pelosi, & Reid, & the Bush cabinet were to resign.
sigh.
August 14th, 2008 at 3:11 pmLook for an announcement soon of the latest adviser to the McCain campaign.
August 14th, 2008 at 3:11 pmI got 10 that says the Shrub will declare Pakistan a terrorist state before the end of his term.
August 14th, 2008 at 3:12 pmFor the first time probably ever, I am jealous of the people of Pakistan.
August 14th, 2008 at 3:12 pmAny chance of us being able to swap the Pakistani Parliament with our gutless Congress? Might be nice to have political leaders who’ve witnessed executive criminal behavior and malfeasance on a grand scale yet do not believe in taking impeachment off the table as a corrective measure.
Just saying . . .
August 14th, 2008 at 3:14 pmWell, he does have a couple of vacancies on the Axis of Evil™ that he needs to fill…
August 14th, 2008 at 3:14 pmbadmoonman says- – Dennis Kucinich too busy canoodling with his statuesque wife to offer a comment.
Sounds like the green eyed monster speaking through you; and, having met Mrs. Kucinich, Dennis is a very lucky man.
August 14th, 2008 at 3:14 pmSorry guys, I know this is totally off topic, but i wanted to post it in an active thread. It’s Dennis Kucinich’s letter. Please forward this link and letter to everyone you know!
http://kucinich.us/
Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s homepage. Here’s the letter he recently sent out.
Please read and go to the link above to sign the petition!
September 10th: The day before our world changed,
a day to change the world!
Dear Friends,
On August 1st, I delivered to Speaker Nancy Pelosi; a petition bearing the
names of over 100,000 Americans that, like us, feel that the President
must be held accountable for abusing executive power and disregarding his
Constitutional obligations.
Your voices have been heard and your support continues to send a powerful
message to lawmakers. That is why I call on you again to help us in a new
effort to deliver 1 Million signatures to Speaker Pelosi on September 10,
2008.
Together we can:
•Urge real Congressional action to hold President Bush accountable now
•Reinstate the authority of our Constitution
•Document crimes committed by President Bush for historical account
•Facilitate post-Administration law enforcement and prosecution
•Reset the standard for the incoming and future administrations
•Demand justice for the over 3,000 who died on 9/11and whose deaths were
tragically exploited to take us into an illegal war in Iraq
•Demand justice for the estimated 30,324 U.S. military personnel who have
been injured/wounded
•Demand justice for the estimated 4,138 U.S. military personnel who have
been killed or died
•Demand justice for the 1 Million innocent Iraqis who have died*
•Avert another illegitimate looming war – this time against Iran
We need your active participation to deliver 1 Million signatures to
Congress by September 10, 2008.
Please give at least ten of your friends the opportunity to stand up for
our country – the way you and I have, by inviting them to sign the
impeachment petition online at http://www.Kucinich.us. Send your friends
an email invitation to sign the petition by clicking here.
Together we can make September 10, the day before the world changed, a day
we change the world!
Thank you for your active and ongoing citizenship.
Dennis Kucinich
August 14th, 2008 at 3:21 pm________________________________________
And who’s fault is that, Tanqi? Your retarded Chimp’s – that’s who.
Idiot.
August 14th, 2008 at 3:25 pmWe were told that these Pakistanis are backward and they know nothing about democracy.
August 14th, 2008 at 3:26 pmNow we know that their elected members of their assembly are forcing their president Musharraf to either resign or face impeachment.
I thought Busharraf was invaluable in the War on Terror®. What will Chympy do now?
August 14th, 2008 at 3:29 pmDoes this mean that Musharraf won’t be able to pardon anybody?
August 14th, 2008 at 3:31 pmRandom Chaos; I got $20 that says the USA is a terrorist state.
August 14th, 2008 at 3:32 pmTanqueray Says:
And while we can all make jokes about Bush, who now gets control of the Pakistani nukes? India shouldn’t be too worried about a few peace loving Mullahs should it?
August 14th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
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That’d be the Pakistani military – the country’s third branch of government. They don’t answer to the religious authorities.
August 14th, 2008 at 3:33 pmOh, so their government is doing the right thing Impeaching their guy, but oh noooo, we can’t get congress to Impeach the biggest war criminals of this century right here at home.
Nice to see that we live in such a lawful democracy….oh wait, we don’t.
August 14th, 2008 at 3:34 pmmaple25 – thanks for the link, signed it, and passing it on to others.
August 14th, 2008 at 3:44 pmI think this is the perfect time for bin Laden to kidnap a Hollywood hairdresser to do some creative work with his beard. Nothing says “power” like having the launch codes to nukes! Then his “hair transformation” can be sold off to a reality TV show on Bravo.
August 14th, 2008 at 3:55 pmTanqueray Says:
And while we can all make jokes about Bush, who now gets control of the Paki nukes? India shouldn’t be too worried about a few peace loving Mullahs should it?
Shouldn’t you at least become familiar with the subject, such as Pakistan’s government organization, before making comments that are embarrassingly stupid?
Oh, wait, I forgot you are a right-wing troll and learning things before speaking is against your ethics.
August 14th, 2008 at 4:04 pmNever mind.
Our next war will be with our allies the Pakistani’s. See first we had to help build up their military to make it a fair fight in the future.
August 14th, 2008 at 4:08 pmWayne Says:
Shouldn’t you at least become familiar with the subject, such as Pakistan’s government organization, before making comments that are embarrassingly stupid?
August 14th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
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Pfff, you jest! Why spend time learning when ignorance is instataneous?
August 14th, 2008 at 4:10 pmAnd another leader gets taken down because of his kissing up to Bush. Darn, when will Cheney kiss Bush? It may be the only way to get Cheney out of DC.
August 14th, 2008 at 4:29 pmJust another murderer dictator who has the full support of the USA…
August 14th, 2008 at 4:30 pmYeah mussarraf is a dictator sure , but compared to our once favorite source for intel on al qaeda , Karamov in Uzbekistan ?
August 14th, 2008 at 4:54 pmKaramov was exposed by the then Brittish ambassador to Uzbekistan as boiling his prisoners alive inorder to collect said intelligence , you could see the tide marks on the dead body where it was raised and lowered into the water. Shortly after the ambassadors report and his going around the brittish goverment inorder to get the story out , he lost his job and the Bush administration stopped funding Uzbekistans dictatorship!
The CIA has a special soft spot in what should be it’s heart for brutal dictatorships . War on democracy , by john Pilger,
August 14th, 2008 at 4:58 pmin 10 parts on U tube ……. if U haven’t seen it WATCH IT TODAY !
So, do we get to keep that 10 mil (bil?) a month we’ve been paying him?
August 14th, 2008 at 5:05 pmI don’t know how Pakistan’s impeachment process works, but I would assume there would be some kind of investigative process that results in articles of impeachment. The possibility of such an investigation, no doubt, would lead our criminal administration to immediately withdraw support from Musharraf and strongly suggest that he “resign.” OBL didn’t wind up in Pakistan (escape to) by accident after Tora Bora.
August 14th, 2008 at 5:48 pmHEY PELOSI HINT HINT HINT
August 14th, 2008 at 6:45 pmJust think, George W was all over this guy’s nuts. He loves Musharraf. What a joke they both are.
But I heard he was being impeached for violating the constitution….so why can’t we get together and force the Bush administration out?
August 14th, 2008 at 7:44 pm