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Hillary’s Proposal: Policy or Ploy?

January 7th, 2008 · 11 Comments

Late Saturday night during a Democratic Party debate, presidential hopeful Senator Hillary Clinton stated that if elected president, she would propose joint US-British oversight of Pakistani nuclear weapons. Within hours, media outlets from New Hampshire to New Delhi had all picked up on the story, with headlines screaming, “Clinton Proposes Oversight of Pak Nukes.”
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Tags: Attack on Benazir Bhutto · Barack Obama · Benazir Bhutto · Benazir Bhutto Assassination · Bush Administration · Central Intelligence Agency · Hillary Clinton · Nuclear Security · Pervez Musharraf · Relations with China · Relations with United States · US Presidential Elections - 2008

Washington’s Christmas Wishlist for Musharraf

December 6th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Informed individuals are reporting that the Bush administration will be quietly providing President Pervez Musharraf a list of minimum deliverables for him to accomplish in order to receive Washington’s stamp of approval for January’s general elections.
The list of requirements — as to what they are we can’t quite say — are being provided discreetly to [...]

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Tags: Bush Administration · Elections - January 2008 · Pervez Musharraf · Relations with United States