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2006-09-27 India-Pakistan
I will win elections hands down: Musharraf
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Posted by Fred 2006-09-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 President General Pervez Musharraf on Monday night said he was confident that he would win elections "hands down" because he was popular in Pakistan. the only one allowed to run.

There. Fixed it.
Posted by Baba Tutu 2006-09-27 00:36||   2006-09-27 00:36|| Front Page Top

#2 LOL! Well, if you have to have a dictator, it's better to have one with a sense of humor! Heck, I'll bet he can even tell you how many votes he'll get!
Posted by gorb 2006-09-27 01:36||   2006-09-27 01:36|| Front Page Top

#3 "hands down" ....or hands up, I win.
Posted by Besoeker 2006-09-27 07:34||   2006-09-27 07:34|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't know if anyone caught the General on The Daily Show last night but I made a point to tune in. I was glad to see a sense of humor in the General.

For those who missed the interview, here's all you really need to know. Stewart presented, in all seriousness, a hypothetical to the General. Given how "divided" Pakistan is between extremists and moderates (personally, I'm not so sure it really is that divided), if both George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden were running for President in Pakistan, who would win?

Musharraf's answer:

"They would both lose. Badly."
Posted by eltoroverde 2006-09-27 12:55||   2006-09-27 12:55|| Front Page Top

#5 If he was really sure he'd win he'd call an election and make his leadership position legal.
Posted by rjschwarz 2006-09-27 13:38||   2006-09-27 13:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Big hint: The only odds people are taking aren't on his election.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2006-09-27 18:00||   2006-09-27 18:00|| Front Page Top

#7 It's both important that Perv win and win big, and that his opponents, the Islamists, lose and lose big. He has just handed them a humiliating defeat with his women's rights act, so hopefully they will get the snot kicked out of them in the elections.

This matters, because they have stood in past between him and cracking down on the madrassas. In fact, they've done everything they could to give aid and comfort to the bad guyz.

With them mostly out of the way, I expect that he will start doing some major hurt on a lot of people we don't like.
Posted by Anonymoose 2006-09-27 18:01||   2006-09-27 18:01|| Front Page Top

#8 So our litle tin-horn dictator needs to be elected to control the ISI? And then Perv will hammer the madrassas?

'Moose it made sense in the past. It's the past. Perv is ISI all the way now. He wants to live.
Posted by 6 2006-09-27 18:09||   2006-09-27 18:09|| Front Page Top

#9 Perv is ISI all the way now. He wants to live.

It'll take some pretty significant action on Perv's part, like bulldozing several hundred madrassahs, before I think otherwise.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2006-09-27 18:24||   2006-09-27 18:24|| Front Page Top

#10 Zenster: I'm all in favor of that, too.
Posted by Anonymoose 2006-09-27 23:33||   2006-09-27 23:33|| Front Page Top

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