Don’t Think We Are Directly Funding Musharraf’s Dictatorship?
“… a considerable amount of the money the U.S. gives to Pakistan is administered not through U.S. agencies or joint U.S.-Pakistani programs. Instead, the U.S. gives Musharraf’s government about $200 million annually and his military $100 million monthly in the form of direct cash transfers. Once that money leaves the U.S. Treasury, Musharraf can do with it whatever he wants.”
Every day our tax dollars go directly to dictators to prop up their regimes. President George W. Bush speaks about freedom in bold terms, but acts with deafening silence when one of his “war on terror” buddies crack some heads. Tell me why the lawyers, journalists, judges, and civil society activists are the first to be rounded up when a state of emergency is declared because of the threat from Islamic extremists.
What a joke the president has become.
