Lane - Interesting analysis - just saw your post. You can add to the signs the fact that there has been considerable and obvious activity on military bases for the past several weeks. At any rate, it would seem that Louisiana will likely see keen political interest in the weeks to come.
I think the domino theory needs to be espoused if Turkey Pakistan and Saudi Arabia go anti US. I mean we will destabilze and overthrow all of them if they try to gang up on us. Right now there just pumping as much radio sawa as they can al la Eastern Europe, Cuba and Soviet Union radio propaganda machines.
We are talking to opposition groups in Pakistan if anti West Muslims take over.
WASHINGTON, Nov 3: During her recent visit to Washington, the PPP leader and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto apparently failed to convince the US administration to abandon the military government in Pakistan and support democratic forces instead.
PPP sources told Dawn that after these "not successful" meetings in Washington, Ms Bhutto decided to support ARD's move to back Maulana Fazlur Rahman.
On Sunday, Nawabzada Nasrullah told reporters in Islamabad that his Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy, which includes Pakistan People's Party, would back the MMA candidate for prime minister.
PPP sources said that the decision to back ARD's move was taken after Pakistan's military rulers refused to accept PPP's demands for joining a government of national consensus.
The sources said that the PPP had asked the military regime to withdraw all cases against Ms Bhutto and Asif Zardari, allow her to return home safely, and withdraw controversial constitution changes if it wanted the party to support the future political setup.
PPP sources said that the proposal for forming such a government had come from President Pervez Musharraf and his colleagues who wanted PPP's parliamentary leader Makhdoom Amin Fahim to head the new setup as prime minister.
After the government's refusal to accept these demands, Ms Bhutto travelled to Washington where she met Assistant Secretary of State Christina Rocca and a senior official of the National Security Council at the White House.
Confirming these meetings, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said Ms Bhutto "discussed developments in Pakistan and in the region" with the US officials.
"We've had regular meetings with Pakistani opposition leaders, including Ms Bhutto, in order to stay in contact with all the significant political leaders of this country," he said.
Bush and Blair want control of Iraq's oil. It is that simple. The problem is that is a hard sell to the American and British public so they have to play the "weapons of mass destruction" card with the British and American public to get them scared and on the run.
Bush is an oil guy and Blair is from British Petroleum. This also marginalizes Suadi Arabia. Not a bad idea considering that most of Al Queda came from Saudi Arabia.
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