Parade magazine publishes interview with Benazir Bhutto without any acknowledgement that she has been dead for almost two weeks!

In a moment worthy of 'Dewey Beats Truman,' Sunday's Parade Magazine went out in newspapers all across the country with a blaring cover headline: "'I Am What The Terrorists Most Fear': Is Benazir Bhutto America's best hope against al-Qaeda?" Uhm...we sure hope not!

The article inside begins with an interior sub-headline that reads, "As Benazir Bhutto seeks a return to power, Tuesday's election in Pakistan could profoundly affect the fight against terrorism," and quotes supporters of Bhutto who chant, "Long live Benazir!" What it does not contain is any acknowledgment, anywhere, that Bhutto died ten days ago.

I read this yesterday and for a moment thought that I had slipped back through time.

I looked everywhere for some notation that Bhutto was no longer with us, and found nothing!

This is why the print media is rapidly losing its audience. I mean if you were a Parade reader without a television or Internet access, you may still believe that Benazir Bhutto was still among the living.

Was Bhutto killed because she was about to drop a dime on Musharaff?

The day she was assassinated last Thursday, Benazir Bhutto had planned to reveal new evidence alleging the involvement of Pakistan's intelligence agencies in rigging the country's upcoming elections, an aide said Monday.

Bhutto had been due to meet U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., to hand over a report charging that the military Inter-Services Intelligence agency was planning to fix the polls in the favor of President Pervez Musharraf.

Safraz Khan Lashari, a member of the Pakistan People's Party election monitoring unit, said the report was "very sensitive" and that the party wanted to initially share it with trusted American politicians rather than the Bush administration, which is seen here as strongly backing Musharraf.

What stands out the most for me in this report is that Bhutto put the Bush administration in the same category as Musharraf, who she believed was actively trying to do her harm.

So if this report had any damning evidence against the Bush administration was that a motive for them to give the okay to take Bhutto out?

What do you think?

New video shows that Bhutto was shot. Pakistan government caught in obvious lie.

At first I could not imagine why the Pakistan government would try to fabricate a cause of death for Benazir Bhutto in conflict with the eyewitness reports.

But then I came to realize that they are desperate to keep her from being named a martyr which will dramatically increase her influence with the Pakistanis, and give her party much more influence.

However in the future I suggest that the Pakistan government take some lessons from our government in how to lie to its people. She died from hitting her head on the door handle? That is the dumbest lie I have heard in a long time.

I don't know what happens in Pakistan next, but I would be willing to bet that it is not going to be a safe palce to visit anytime soon.