UPDATE NOTE: Cnn TV has acquired a
6 minute video interview with the
husband of Prime Minister Benazir
Bhutto and he has said with certainty
and without hesitation, that his
wife was shot and that was that.
Hey if ya cannot believe a womans
husband then who can ya believe right?

CNN LINK here
www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/12/30/pakistan.politics/

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Well it truly is hard not to be
effected by the unfolding news
story of the assassination of
Pakistan's woman Prime Minister,
Benazir Bhutto. It's always
unnerving when a male world
leader is taken down, but I think
an extra gasp of shock goes out
from the onlooking masses whenever
it's a woman who takes the fall
to violence.

Military Veterans everywhere who
have seen the AP photographs
of the event that fell prey to
yet another suicide bomber,
could easily pick out the major
security problems that this up
and coming leader was facing.

The ultimate cardinal rule of
guarding a VIP #101 was broken:
never let a threatening crowd
approach her vehicle, or even
come up to her path of steps into
the vehicle. Both sides of this
rule was absent without leave,
for sure, and it only took a New
York Minute of a mistake on her
own part that made the plot
of doom complete.

If there ever was a role to be
carved out either by NATO or the
United Nations, then it certainly
has presented itself in THIS situation
in Pakistan.

While they all bother themselves
with other exercises in futility
trying to micro-manage the world
stage members who are mostly countries
lacking self-control, personal dignity,
or even the basic fundamental value
of human life, this
would seem to be the perfect time
to issue a call to action to draft
and adopt a World Standard for security
measures to all running election
candidates in all those member countries
who are either pursuing Democracy or
some other docile change in government
away from the status quo.

The new election candidate security
measures would probably rest largely
on standards imposed by the United
States itself, if only because in
our Boomer lifetimes, it was our
generation who reinvented presidential
security on the heels of the assassination
of John F. Kennedy.

It was a dirty, stinking SHAME that
Prime Minister Bhutto was forced
to rely upon the shabby security that
the existing opposition government
apparently rationed out to her so
that she could run a fair and competitive
election clearly modelled after
our own American standards.

While I am not exactly saying here
that either NATO or the U.N. should
actually be expected to provide
security personnel for these people
in their own homelands, it does
seem clear that a crisis has
presented itself sufficiently to
force the U.N. to, at the very least,
draft and adopt a "world standard"
for actively running
election candidates in a prominently
supported national election.

If we take into account all the
other nonsensical and general sillyness
of what these 2 international venues
both involve themselves with, then
being the architects of a world
standard for election candidate security
does not fall all that far fetched.

It seemed not so long ago when
Israel experienced an assassination
and even the video images from that
should have been an international
wake up call to every developing
nation about what NOT to do in the
trail of "assumptions" in the throws
of official security.

And as a sidebar on this discussion,
the Bhutto assassination really has
underscored and spotlighted what
the troops are up against in Iraq.
And this truly has to give a moment
of pause to those Democrats who have
been so forthcoming in their war
bashing and ongoing threats to cut
off the budgets of the troops themselves.

It's apparent that single countries
cannot do election or official
candidate security on their own.
Too many times, the same mistakes
are showing themselves, first at
one place and then another.

And if the world community is truly
suffering the loss of Benazir's
presence with all the hopes she might
have brought to the table, then
perhaps there is no better way to
honor her memory than for the
United Nations to take the lead
and begin the conferences to draft
and adopt the first world standards
in election candidate and official
security for all the membering
nations.

Hey U.N. --- make yerself useful !!

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