" send me luca brazzi , " said don corleone ...

"luca brazzi " aka john negroponte

U.S. tightens vise on Musharraf
Negroponte delivers sternest message yet on state of emergency

Associated Press

November 18, 2007

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte delivered a blunt message to Pakistan's military ruler, telling him that emergency rule must be lifted and his opponents freed ahead of elections.

"I urged the government to stop such actions, lift the state of emergency and release all political detainees," he said during a news conference today at the heavily guarded U.S. Embassy.

President Gen. Pervez Musharraf faced intense U.S. pressure yesterday to end emergency rule and restore democracy, with Washington's No. 2 diplomat personally delivering what many here see as a sharp warning from a once-staunch ally.

Whether Musharraf was ready to listen was the question. He says the two-week-long emergency -- which has seen opponents jailed, judges purged and independent TV stations muffled -- is needed to hold a peaceful vote in the country beset by an increasingly potent Islamic insurgency.

Negroponte's trip, which ended today, was seen as a last, best chance to persuade him and avoid political turmoil in Pakistan, a key front in the war on terror.

Negroponte met for more than two hours with Musharraf and Pakistan's deputy army commander, Gen. Ashfaq Kayani, said an official in the president's office, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk with the media.

Kayani is widely expected to take over the powerful role of military chief in the coming weeks when Musharraf sheds his uniform and starts his second term as president in the coming weeks.

The official said Musharraf told Negroponte the emergency was needed to hold a successful vote.

He wouldn't say what Negroponte had told Musharraf, and U.S. officials weren't talking. But going into the meeting, senior Bush administration officials were clear on what they wanted: an end to the emergency, a date set for legislative elections in January, the release of opposition leaders and that Musharraf step down as army chief.

"We want to work with the government and people of Pakistan and the political actors in Pakistan to put the political process back on track as soon as possible," Negroponte said Friday during a stop in Africa.

Meanwhile, a top general announced yesterday that the army has massed 15,000 troops for a major assault on Islamic militants in the northern valley, and the army said it had killed 40 militants there.

the president musharraf


the general musharraf

not to mix movie metaphors , but it's like that scene from the film noir cult classic "chinatown" , where jack nicholson's character , detective jake gittes after having his nose slit by gangsters is roughing up faye dunaway's character evelyn Mulray until she spills the beans about her incestuous father and ruthless LA water baron played by john huston .

Evelyn Mulwray: She's my daughter.
J.J. Gittes: I said I want the truth!
Evelyn Mulwray: She's my sister. She's my daughter. My sister, my daughter.
J.J. Gittes: I said I want the truth!
Evelyn Mulwray: She's my sister and my daughter!

(Evelyn Mulwray (Faye Dunaway), J.J. Gittes (Jack Nicholson), Chinatown, revealing the identity of Kathryn (Belinda Montgomery) (1974). Gittes slaps Mulwray five times during this exchange.)

sehba musharraf : " He's my president ."

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george dubya : " I said I want the truth !"


sehba musharraf : " He's my general."

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sehba musharraf : " He's my president."

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sehba musharraf : " My general , my president ."


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george dubya : " I said I want the truth !"

slap !

sehba musharraf : " He's my general and my president ! "


And the saga continues as president / general perilous pervez musharraf in essence , warns the Us that only he and the army can keep pakistan's 40 to 60 nukes out of the hands of islamic extremists like osama bin laden .

To recap , in case no one's been watching , pakistan's head of the army , general pervez musharraf originally seized power in a military coup . that made him essentially the president / general of pakistan .

Allied with the Us in the "war on terror" against their old mutual creation , al qaeda and the taliban , musharraf and the army received about 10 billion Usd in foreign aid .

They screwed up of course and osama , al qaeda and the taliban all escaped across the border from afghanistan into pakistan .

but old Perv couldn't go after them --even though they were hiding in his country --because of strong support for the fundamentalists in musharraf's own military and population as well as lawlessness in the outlying areas of pakistan where the badguys were supposedly hiding out from the lone texas ranger , dubya and his faithful Indian ---oops --i mean --- faithful PAKISTANI companion , pervez .

meanwhile , when it came time for old perv to run for "re-election" , members of his Supreme court challenged whether it was legal for him to hold the job as head of army and be president at the same time .

Perv ran anyway and --surprise surprise --won --but his pesky supreme court , his political opposition , newspapers , students and others challenged the election results and the legality of perv being head of the army and the government at the same time .

Perv , in essence , said , " Don't fool with me ! " and locked up the supreme court --dismissed the supreme court head , suspended the Constitution , suspended the next elections , locked up a great big bunch of the political opposition , shut down the media and punished those in media who criticized him .

old dubya , a lame duck president , watching this all with a 30% approval rating at home --which is about 60% higher that he deserves -- gently prodded his faithful companion in the crusade on terror , and asked ," Perv , we're the forces of democracy and stuff --you're making us look like tyrants and evil doers and stuff-- what the heck are you doing ? "

perv essentially replied to his lone ranger , " kimosabe , this ain't Us terrority --this is Indian--oops-- i mean Pakistani territory . This ain't whiteman's business . "

so citing the example of Abe lincoln when abe suspended habeous corpus and quoting the even more enduring words of don corleone from the godfather movies , perv warned the lone texas ranger -- " Don't ever ask me about my business --ever again ."

dubya , highly embarrassed by his minion /ally in the "crusade" of democracy against terror shamelessly acting like a mere central american dictator --the typical Us ally --decided enough was enough .


dubya sent in first , former prime minister benazir bhutto to talk some sense into perv and "share" some of all that power perv had grabbed up--but it didn't work --perv put benazir under house arrest .

And that's when dubya --not to be outdone by some little foreign guy who wasn't even american trying to act like he was marlon brando --old dubya took a page himself from the godfather movies ,and gave the order , " a godfather's gotta godfather his country --send me that hitman feller --uhhh --- lou cabrazzi ."


So...into pakistan goes --not condoleeza--the secretary of state , but the assistant secretary of state --the fixer --the guy you send when you want to put an end to shit --the guy who don't give a f--k about being diplomatic --the batallion 316 honduras death squad man himself --the man who as ambassador to iraq saw on his watch the rise of militias ,death squads and dead bodies showing up everywhere in baghdad --career spook masquerading as diplomat , john negroponte .

musharraf should get the message now --tonto is off the reservation and the lone ranger ain't playing --but watch out , old mushy thinks he still can hang tough ...

to be continued...