"STABILITY" and "IRRESPONSIBLE" - in just two words, Sen. Chris Dodd illustrates how "Democratic" "leaders" are abjectly SUBSERVIENT to the Bush/Cheney/neo-con WAR AGENDA, and to the awful "major media" narrative of that agenda, which is so often completely INVERTED, 100% the OPPOSITE of the truth.
In this case, Senator Dodd was saying that "STABILITY IN PAKISTAN is OUR HIGHEST PRIORITY," and therefore that "ANYONE CRITICIZING the regime of Pakistan general and dictator Musharaff IS BEING IRRESPONSIBLE."
Cut through the oh-so-responsible double-talk of the Senator, what that means that even if President Musharaff DID have a hand in the ASSASSINATION of his political rival, former President Benazir Bhutto, 3 days ago, HE NOW HAS FREE HAND TO ASSASSINATE ANYONE IN PAKISTAN he so desires.
Like Henry Kissinger and President Ford giving a GREEN LIGHT to Chile dictator AUGUSTO PINOCHET, Dodd is NOW ON THE SIDE OF DICTATORS, AGAINST any EVEN SEMBLENCE of democracy... under the generic propaganda rubric "FREEDOM."
Of course, those who supported SEGREGATION in US Deep South in the years after World War II, maintained that THEY "SUPPORTED FREEDOM" - even as they supported a political and economic system which USED BRUTALITY and quasi-state APPLIED TERROR to PROHIBIT minority (Black/African-American) voters from EXCERCISING THEIR 15th AMENDMENT RIGHTS.
Even the Northern, "moderate" senators, congress wo/men, and leaders of the Democratic Party thus have a LONG HISTORY of COOPERATING with the racist, radical agenda of the reactionary South, for it was not until the United States was fighting to bring "FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY to..... VIETNAM!" that Americans were FORCED (by the modern invention of television nightly news videos being broadcast into millions of American homes) to EXAMINE THE UN-DEMOCRATIC SEGREGATION and state-sanctioned EXTRA LEGAL VIOLENCE of segregationist's regime of terror against Civil Rights and Voting Rights activists in the Deep South.
SENATOR CHRIS DODD, House Speaker NANCY PELOSI, House MAJORITY LEADER STENY HOYER, and Senate Leader HARRY REID are no more an no less than another "DEMOCRATIC" _REVERSION_ to the LYNCH MOB ERA, when Americans COULD BE DISENFRANCHISED with NO real, substantive QUIBBLES from the Northern Democrats or Republicans.
IN THIS CASE, EXTEND Senator Dodd's "IRRESPONSIBLE to question whether dictator Musharraff had ANY role in Ms. Buhtto's ASSASSINATION" to ANY QUESTIONS of the BILLIONS of US taxpayer dollars spent by Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney on their global war on the world.... and CLEARLY, SENATOR DODD and his FELLOW "DEMOCRATIC" senators are DERELICT in their duties to OVERSEE and provide ACCOUNTABILITY for the vast billions spent on the war on terror.
Or, in plain English, Senator Dodd NOW AGREES: THE WAR ON TERROR justifies ANY DICTATORSHIP overseas (up to and including the ASSASSINATION of genuinely democratic opposition leaders), and, as well, ANY SPENDING, AND ANY POLICE STATE POWERS, here at home in America.
SENATOR DODD, your recent veto-talk against the retroactive immunity/surveillance "REFORM" bill WAS MERE SHOW! For you APPROVE of the DICTATORIAL POLICE/war-state powers ABROAD as well as here in America!
FOR SHAME! Senator Dodd, Speaker Pelosi, Senator Kerry, and the Democrat "leadership" MAY MARK THE END of American democracy, as the fury of the Muslim world over ever-expanding American wars of imperialism generates ever-increasing PRESSURE COOKER FORCES in Pakistan and elsewhere.
Senator Dodd is TOO COWARDLY to DEMAND THE FACTS of the Bhutto ASSASSINATION!
