Re: Time to give Change a Chance.
It is really interesting to see how both sides of this argument are framing their arguments.
Musharraf supporters saw the dramatic election defeat (of PML-Q a.k.a. Mushy's King Party) and are suddenly the biggest proponent of reconciliation, lets move forward together, betterment for Pakistan, lets not fight blah blah. Most of these same people were very combative before the election that people will reject corrupt leaders of PPP and PML-N, and PML-Q will win majority of seats because they are so popular and Mushy will be President for ever, etc.
Musharraf haters on the other hand, point out that the whole election was pretty much won on a single point LKMO - "Lets Kick Musharraf Out". That is the sole reason why sworn opponents (PPP and PML) are getting together to form the government. To expect the victors of the election to suddenly forgo their main election promise and get into nuts and bolts of governing is naive. According to them, first things first. LKMO (or make his life absolutely miserable so he quits himself), and then we'll get into the business of running Pakistan (or looting Pakistan, depending upon which way you look at it :)).
What is most amusing is that suddenly Mushy lovers list down a bunch of very important problems facing Pakistan right now that need to be tackled on PRIORITY BASIS (including terrorism, struggles of common man etc), and it begs the natural question that Mushy is in power for the last 8 years, what has he done to solve these vexing problems. And if it is that after his 8 years (which are same as two full terms of US President) he's been unable to solve these huge problems, and in some ways, made them worse, then what is the rationale for keeping him at the helm for 5 more years. Since he is the incumbant, so seems he is clearly incompetent, in addition to be allegedly illegitimate.
Oh, what a "catch 22"! ;)