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Let us begin with the fact that George Bush and Dick Cheney were never legitimately elected to the Oval Office: not in 2000, and not in 2004.

In the American system, the authority of our government is based on the consent of the governed. This consent was not earned in either "election".

Therefore, the Bush-Cheney administrations of 2001-2009 were illegitimate, and the policies implemented by these illegitimate administrations are themselves illegitimate. Period.

If somebody steals your credit card and you report the theft, you are not responsible for purchases made on that card after it was stolen. We reported the theft in 2000; we screamed about the theft in 2004; but it did us no good at all.

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Dawn published a story yesterday by Anwar Iqbal which today has been retracted. Great.

And I blogged about it. Double-Great.

Unfortunately, I didn't manage to save the original text in its entirety at Winter Parking, as I would normally do with a controversial story ... because Blogger was acting up. More greatness than I can stand.

I've updated the original piece on my blog, which you can see here, if you wish. Comments are welcome below.

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I am still hampered with multiple injuries and quite overloaded this week, but I will do my best to get the "Pathway To Darkness" series rolling as soon as possible.

More apologies for more delays... ;-(

I haven't read anything like this in a long time...

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Since I wrote my recent post about the war between the USA and Pakistan, some questions have come up which have put me in mind of a piece I posted about 18 months ago, featuring some very sharp commentary from a young female Pakistani journalist.

In a column published November 4, 2007, the day after emergency rule was declared in Pakistan, and in the midst of a strict political clampdown, Fatima Bhutto honored the restriction against ridiculing the President, General Pervez Musharraf, by not mentioning him at all.

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On April 8, 2009, amid a blaze of publicity, police in the north of England arrested 12 men who were Officially Described As (ODA) "terror suspects".

England's Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, congratulated the police and intelligence agencies on having broken up "a very big plot".

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Signs and omens, suddenly everywhere, tell us war between the USA and Pakistan is imminent. ... The signs are misleading. War between the US and Pakistan is not imminent. It’s ongoing. ... What’s imminent is a grave escalation.

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