Ron Paul Blames US Policy for Bhutto Killing  —  Ron Paul blames the assassination of Benazir Bhutto on the “interventionist” policy of the United States, and says Al Qaeda is justified in being “annoyed” at us.  (Click the picture for the video.)

Benazir Bhutto  —  A recent CNN poll showed that 46 percent of Pakistanis approve of Osama bin Laden.  —  Aspirants to the American presidency should hope to score so highly in the United States.  In Pakistan, though, the al-Qaeda emir easily beat out that country's current president, Pervez Musharraf, who polled at 38 percent.

John Edwards talked to Musharraf regarding Bhutto  —  Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards talked with Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf early this afternoon (Iowa time).  Here's Edwards talking about the situation (mp3 runs 2 minuates)  —  Henderson: “In regards to the situation …

Pakistan and the Candidates  —  Mike Huckabee, in his Foreign Affairs article once suggested that we might have to invade nuclear Islamist Pakistan.  On the death of Ms. Bhutto, his Carteresque gut reaction is now to apologize-but for what?  —  Barack Obama likewise once thought …

HORSE RACE  —  The leading Dem candidates for president appear to be in a pitched battle to make the most craven and insipid uses of the Bhutto assassination for immediate political advantage.  A true horse race.

BENAZIR BHUTTO, 1953-2007.  —  The sternest critic of Benazir Bhutto would not have been able to deny that she possessed an extraordinary degree of physical courage.  When her father was lying in prison under sentence of death from Pakistan's military dictatorship in 1979 …

Obama Adviser: Bhutto Assassination Reminds Us That Hillary Made Wrong Call On Iraq War  —  Okay, the battling among Dems over how the Bhutto assassination will affect the Dem primary is officially underway.  Today after Barack Obama's closing argument speech in Iowa, Obama adviser David …

Axelrod on Bhutto Assassination  —  From TIME's Jay Newton-Small:  —  David Axelrod, Barack Obama's top strategist, told reporters after the speech that Clinton will not benefit from a renewed conversation about foreign policy in the wake of Benazir Bhutto's assassination in Pakistan.

Huckabee Flubs A Pakistan Question  —  CBS News correspondent Nancy Cordes writes about Mike Huckabee's newser in Orlando, FL today: … It's not the mistake itself that will raise eyebrowses — it's Huckabee's lack of intellectual ease, his lack of felicity, with foreign policy at a critical moment when everyone is paying attention.

‘A Wrong Must Be Righted’  —  An interview with Benazir Bhutto  —  Editor's note: We are all saddened by the murder this morning of Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto.  The assassination adds more danger and confusion to the already chaotic situation in the region.