ISLAMABAD, FLIP-FLOP-ISTAN
Another day of flip-flops. First the Pakistan Government apologized for its earlier official statement that Benazir was not shot, then just as quickly retracted it and reverted to its "factual position" - the skulduggery theory, i. e. "skull fracture due to dugging into car through sun-roof".
The Indoor-Outdoor Minister for Nonsensical Non Sequiturs then apologized and urged people to "forgive and ignore" earlier comments that Benazir had struck her head on a metal lever on the sun-roof of her armored Toyota Land Cruiser.
Immediately after that he corrected himself and said his apology was only for some "crude words" that the spokesman had used earlier.
Minutes later Comical Ali, the unofficial spokesman for the Pak careless-taker government appeared before reporters to clarify the "3 previous statements".
"We have solved the puzzle of Bhutto's murder. It was the third shooter on the grassy knoll. This conclusion has been based on solid evidence", he said.
A fifth govt spokesman had this to say: "Forget what the 4 earlier spokesmen said. We have eyewitness statements which indicate that they heard a loud bang then moments later saw a white Fiat Uno and a motorbike racing out of the tunnel at high speed! The driver then got out of the Fiat, fired off a celebratory round from his Kalashnikov, then blew himself up. The other man in the video sporting designer black shades is Dodi Fayed."
A sixth spokesman later elaborated, quite extemporaneously, that "the driver of the Fiat had been drinking Pastis at a local Pakistani bistro with Henri Paul who told him that the whole thing was a conspiracy planned by Philip the Greek".
In Iowa, on the eve of the Dem caucus, Hillary Clinton, demonstrating her foreign policy Presidential credentials said, "Well...it's very clear to me that this is a vast right-wing conspiracy created by the White House to deflect attention from Scooter Libby. Karl Rove is the real perpetrator here."
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