Politicians are such liars. The whole world suddenly seems to have woken upto the fact that Gen. Musharraf is a dictator and has been for the past decade. Everyone is lecturing him for declaring a state of emergency in Pakistan but he seems quite relaxed and appears to be enjoying all the attention. After all look at his opponents. Main opposition is led by lawyers who are crooks anyway. Benazir Bhutto is a bull**** artist. Her husband, Zardari, was known as Mr. Ten Percent for skimming money off all govt. contracts. She is demanding that the constitution be changed so that she can have a third term as prime minister. So much for democracy and the sanctity of the Constitution. Nawaz Sharif is a big landowner and his whole clan is knee deep in the stinking stuff. Maybe Musharraf will be replaced by another army fellow who will continue along the same path. This is on the west. On the east it is altogether different. Burma is ruled by a bunch of ugly, lowlife thugs prancing around in uniforms. There is no way they are going to allow anyone to take power because they cannot afford to. They have committed so many atrocities and killed so many people that giving up power would mean trials and long jail terms. They will be looking at what happened to Generals Pinochet and Galtieri who thought they had immunity but were publicly humiliated. The thugs in Burma are much worse and uglier. India, unfortunately is stuck in the middle.