Musharraf is now a Civilian Dictator

[spanone]

Musharraf Quits Pakistani Army Post
~snip~ LAHORE, Pakistan, Nov. 28 — President Pervez Musharraf resigned his military post as chief of army staff today, handing over the command stick to his successor in a ceremony at Pakistan’s army headquarters and ending his eight years of military rule. He remains president and will be sworn in to a new five-year term in the capital on Thursday, but as a civilian president his power will be diminished.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/29/world/asia/29pakistan...

[Ravy]

1. Yeah, but he is *our* Civillian Dictator.

for the moment.

[HughMoran]

2. Yep, same little dictator twerp, slightly different title

This little piss-ant needs to go.

[global1]

3. One With Weapons of Mass Destruction And He Harbors Terrorists Too......

is he with us or against us? What will * do?

[Bright Eyes]

4. "He remains president and will be sworn in to a new five-year term"

Wait....wasn't there supposed to be an election?

[spanone]

5. how dare you read below the headlines

[Elspeth]

6. LOL

[Freddie Stubbs]

17. There was. October 6, 2007:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...

[Romulox]

7. Honestly....so what?

And would Pakistan be "more democratic" if Musharraf agreed to a power sharing agreement with Bhutto? That sounds like a co-dictatorship, not any democracy I am familiar with...

[spanone]

9. it would be more democratic if they had actual elections.....

[Romulox]

14. IIRC the last elected PM of Pakistan stepped to the brink of Nuclear war with India...

Democracy is vastly overrated in many cases.

[spanone]

15. so you support the Musharraf dictatorship?

[Romulox]

16. Of course I don't *support* it. OTOH, I am not terribly troubled by it, either.

Remember, proselytizing corrupt US style consumerist "democracy" is a plank of the neocon agenda. I have no interest in spreading our secular religion, by the sword or otherwise...

[Solly Mack]

8. "... as a civilian president his power will be diminished" and then this -

"Mr. Musharraf, who imposed emergency rule on the country on Nov. 3, imprisoning political opponents, lawyers and judges and closing down television stations, will continue to chair the national security council as a civilian president and has given himself added powers under recent amendments."

[spanone]

11. sounds like a bu$h* signing statement

[Solly Mack]

13. LOL Exactly.

(The) appearance (of freedom/democracy/liberty/justice) is enough for some people.

And I'm speaking of America now.

[Romulox]

12. self-delete. Replied to wrong post.

[blogslut]

10. He took off his uniform just like Chimpy told him to.

Problem solved.

[RaleighNCDUer]

18. I've got an idea -

lets support him as "President for Life", on the condition that he immediatly destroys his entire nuclear arsenal.

A pragmatic trade off, I think.