Is Their Another Side To Bhutto?

It would seem so and now that the media hype has been beaten to death it would seem we will start to hear another side of the story.......personally I get the impression that Pakistan has been and is a haven for terrorists so I wonder why the Bhutto supporters who are taking to the streets to demonstrate aren't marching to the Taliban and Al Queda training camps.

Another take on Benazir Bhutto

Ralph Peters writes about the Bhutto assassination in the New York Post:

December 28, 2007 -- FOR the next several days, you're going to read and hear a great deal of pious nonsense in the wake of the assassination of Pakistan's former prime minister, Benazir Bhutto.

Her country's better off without her. She may serve Pakistan better after her death than she did in life.

We need have no sympathy with her Islamist assassin and the extremists behind him to recognize that Bhutto was corrupt, divisive, dishonest and utterly devoid of genuine concern for her country.

She was a splendid con, persuading otherwise cynical Western politicians and "hardheaded" journalists that she was not only a brave woman crusading in the Islamic wilderness, but also a thoroughbred democrat.

In fact, Bhutto was a frivolously wealthy feudal landlord amid bleak poverty. The scion of a thieving political dynasty, she was always more concerned with power than with the wellbeing of the average Pakistani. Her program remained one of old-school patronage, not increased productivity or social decency.

Mansoor Ijaz on Benazir Bhutto: Idealism, to Debasement, to Return, to Tragedy

With all the misinformation out there on the assassinated former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, I thought I’d post this item from National Review Online’s instant Bhutto symposium, penned by close Bhutto associate and well-respected commentator on all things Pakistan, Mansoor Ijaz. It’s clear from Ijaz’s piece: whatever her intentions on returning to the country this fall, she was a highly flawed personality with a disgraceful past record, and had no groundswell of popular support: