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Originally Posted by Ustwo
host don't be a jerk. Apparently this guy worked for both Bush and Clinton, I never heard of him and was only quoting the article.
I figure you just posted your one liner to be confrontational for no reason like you somehow 'got me'. I wonder how many of these gems I've miss buried between quoted stories of yours.
Interesting that guy thinks it is the work of Al-Qaeda and the NYT didn't bother to mention that part. It still doesn't answer why a gun would make it worse security.
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Ustwo, I took your <i>"Obviously I'm unqualified to figure it out, being this was said by a former member of the National Security Council under Clinton..."</i> comment, as an unsupported disparaging "take" on "all things Clinton". I think that you can understand how I could interpret your tone in that way. Considering your reaction, I now concede that it is quite possible that you meant nothing more by it than "hey, can anyone translate "Clinton speak", or "I don't think this way, since I was'nt in the "Clinton camp", can anyone who was, decipher this for me"?
Anyway....I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, and I hope you have a clearer understanding of why I reacted to your Clinton reference, the way that I did.
I recalled that I read this a few days ago. It doesn't directly explain Riedel's link to shooting with poor security, but Robinson was also a Clinton era Pakistan observer:
(It matters, immensely how Bhutto died. If the official machinations are an indicator....the government intentionally, after announcing several variations, settled on a version of events which puts Bhutto in the least "martyred" light;
"ducking" from a bomb blast, fatally injuring her own head, vs. killed by assassin's bullets.)
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapc...ath/index.html
Sat December 29, 2007
How did Pakistan's Bhutto die?
....CNN national security analyst Ken Robinson, who worked in U.S. intelligence in Pakistan during the Clinton administration, said he suspects Bhutto's enemies are attempting to control her legacy by minimizing the attack's role in her demise.
"They're trying to deny her a martyr's death, and in Islam, that's pretty important," Robinson said.
Bhutto, he said, threatens to become more influential in death than she was in life. "Her torch burns bright now forever. She's forever young; she's forever brave, challenging against all odds the party in power and challenging the military and Islamic extremism."
Only if Bhutto's family allows an autopsy, said Robinson, will the world know for certain the medical reasons behind her death. The Associated Press, quoting Cabinet sources, said Bhutto's husband, Asif Ali Zardari, refused to permit an autopsy before she was laid to rest Friday....
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....and, if I'm not prying too much, did you and roachboy follow up on the idea, discussed a while back, of enjoying a beer, or two, together?