Bhutto's aid asks Crawford Texas Peace House to deliver request to Bush

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Bhutto's aid asks Crawford Texas Peace House to deliver request to Bush
Submitted by davidswanson on Fri, 2007-11-09 16:28. Media

Pakistani-Americans say Pakistan's crisis result of bad US foreign policy

Crawford, Texas -- "Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, through one of her aids, has asked The Crawford Texas Peace House to deliver a request to President George Bush to demand that Musharraf restore the Constitution, lift the emergency rule and hold elections as scheduled," said Hadi Jawad, a founder of the Peace House in Crawford. ABC Australia news reported late Thursday night that it appears Bhutto is now under house arrest.

Musharraf, who President Bush calls his friend, has received billions of dollars worth of arms and military training for his security forces in the past several years from the United States. Some of those arms, that include F-16 fighter jets, tens of thousands of parts for the M-113 armored personnel carrier, rifles, pistols, and revolvers are now being used by Musharraf's army against peaceful demonstrators including lawyers, judges and supreme court justices, reported Ali Gharib in the Inter Press Service.

"With an additional, nearly $1.5 billion US military aid package proposed for Pakistan in 2008, President Bush must use more than soft rhetoric against Musharraf's recent human rights violations.The strong reservations of the administration to take decisive steps to punish Musharraf and help end the crisis in Pakistan stand in stark contrast to its declared foreign policy principles in the so-called freedom agenda,"said Gharib.

"The current crisis in Pakistan is a direct result of bad US foreign policy and the misguided war on terrorism,"said Syed Hassan, a Pakistani-American. "Supporting dictatorships will not produce positive results."

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1. Picky, but it should be Bhutto's AIDE. (My God, I'm channeling my mother!)...

What appalls me is that Bhutto is forced to come begging, as it were, to Bush to ask for AID in this situation. Biden spoke with Bhutto the same day he spoke with Musharraf for the first time, and if he were in Bush's place, you can bet Bhutto wouldn't have to be making pleas through a third party to get a message delivered. Biden would be on the phone -- himself! -- with both Musharraf and Bhutto, and they'd probably each have a direct line to his office.

Bush's lack of understanding of foreign policy and diplomacy is gonna get a lot of people killed.

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2. kick

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