Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Quotes
I would not let myself be intimidated by Yahya Khan, his methods had led us to disaster.
Fallaci, Oriana. Interview with History. Translated by John Shepley, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976, p. 202.
The basis of his complaint essentially was that he and his military and supports were no worse than the guys why they were killing and if they did not continue fighting and kikking, they themselves would be killed. While there was some truth to that, Assad was one of the worst dictators of the post WWII era. His indiscriminate shooting, shelling and air strikes on women & children, hospitls and schools, and the use of poison gas was enough to justify the image of him as a "bad guy".
See {585638} for the kind of statement that led people to fear him as a dictator.
The George W. Bush administration had a reelection coming up and this administration had raised opacity to a new high in American History.
Belafonte was on stage with Hugo Chavez, the autocratic president of Venezuela and a patent demagogue who constantly attacked Bush and the American government. Other than an entertainer who knows little about politics making an over the top attack on the president this quotation is ironic because he was at the time on the stage with and supporting one of the two most autocratic dictators of the Western Hemisphere—Hugo Chavez. In that context, the accusation was as absurd as it can get.
This was Churchill’s first Radio Address as Prime Minister.
He was expelled from Parliament for such.
This was the group that decided who was to be executed in the Reign of Terror
Trajan ande Caligula were each Roman Emperors.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was a Pakistani barrister and politician who served as the 9th Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1973 to 1977, and prior to that as the fourth President of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973. He was also the founder of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and served as its chairman until his execution in 1979.
