U.S. President Obama meets with Presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan in Washington
U.S. President Barack Obama (C) meets with Presidents of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai (L) and President of Pakistan Asif Zardari in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington on May 6, 2009. (UPI Photo/Dennis Brack/Pool)
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WASHINGTON, March 17 (UPI) -- Washington's Pakistan kibitzers will soon rue the day they squeezed President Pervez Musharraf to restore democracy. "Demonocracy" is what has now emerged, or an unholy alliance of longtime America-haters, including the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal coalition of six politico-religious extremist parties that lost the Feb. 18 elections, plus a gaggle of former generals and admirals against Musharraf, and friends and admirers of A.Q. Khan, the man who ran a nuclear Wal-Mart for the benefit of America's enemies (North Korea and Iran).
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