There's much in common between smooth-talking Benazir and the man once favoured by the White House to succeed Saddam Hussein
Dilip Hiro
The Guardian
"......There are uncanny parallels between Bhutto and Chalabi. The elements that helped Chalabi to portray himself - and be accepted - as the poster boy of the Bush administration are the same that have turned Bhutto into an indispensable ingredient to transform Pakistan's embarrassing dictatorship into a likable democracy ... with her as the chief executive......
In an impromptu speech on Friday, Bhutto warned that Pakistan could turn into another Iraq. "We have seen what happens in Iraq," she said. "There was a dictatorship, the people revolted, and there was a bloody end." The people revolted in Iraq! Such make-believe analysis and interpretation is popular with the Bush White House......
There is still another element in their biographies that Bhutto and Chalabi share. Both face allegations of corruption......"
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