'Bush administration responsible for Pak crisis'

Democratic Senator Chris Dodd, who is seeking the party nomination for the Presidential election in 2008, slammed the Bush administration for having created the present problem in Pakistan.

"... this is a tremendous problem. And obviously, we've got to keep working with Musharraf. I join others who are condemning this action of declaring (Pakistan) a state of Emergency and suspending the constitution," Dodd said during a TV interview.

"This is a problem created by this administration. This was loading up Musharraf with too much for him to probably carry as a result of our sort of withdrawing from Afghanistan, or at least not putting the kind of emphasis on Afghanistan after 9/11 that we should have," he said.

"I think the mistake began some time ago when we decided we were going to engage in the war of choice in Iraq and not the war that needed to be waged more aggressively, and that is in Afghanistan, against global terrorism of Osama bin Laden. Thus you reach the point where we did, in a declaration of a state of emergency occurring. At this juncture we've got to work with this. But we had better do it aggressively," Dodd said.

Courtesy:timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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