In a 60 Minutes interview, President Musharraf of Pakistan said of the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto “for standing up outside the car, I think it was she to blame alone — nobody else. Responsibility is hers.”
Am I crazy, or wouldn’t it be reasonable to put at least some of the blame on the assassin(s)?
The most intelligent comment made on anything in the past week.
Musharraf’s statement is extremely irresponsible to attempt to shift the blame for an outrageous murder on the victim!
It takes a lot of gall for the guy who commissioned the hit to critique the “hittee.”
Was it her fault, too, the police mysteriously went off duty shortly before the assassination? If the police were frisking the 2 or 3 thousand people before that time … how did the assassins mysteriously get through? Did they suddenly appear when the police took themselves off-duty? Hmmmm….
I’m surprised that it took us boneheads so long to figure out who was responsible. Now that Gen. Musharraf has said it, it is all too clear that Bhutto herself was responsible for her own death at the hands of suicide bombers
In fact, I’ve heard from sources close to the general that Bhutto was actually inviting the bomber to climb up to the top of the van and then blow himself up but he didn’t want to steal the limelight and decided to do it standing below
Furthermore, the enlightened general also made it clear (for the benefit of morons like us) that, he’s been using every penny that Bush gave him to fight terrorism and that he actually was in the midst of planning the transition of power from him to Bhutto when he heard the news about her untimely death. To add more credibility (as if he actually needs it), US President GW Bush (he who is the epitome of truth and wisdom) also reiterated yesterday on Fox News that Musharraf was 100% correct and that he was planning on sending a billion more dollars as aid in the fight against terrorism in Pakistan
Well, the reason is, he (Perv. Mush.) wants to say that he provisioned adequate security and she died cause she stood up.
He has suppressed the issue of the gunshot wound in her neck.