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Pakistan: Bush Weighs in

by Michael D.|  November 5, 20075:52 am| 20 Comments

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And isn’t it about time?

In what he described as “an emergency mission to help a key ally in the war on terror,” President George W. Bush flew to Islamabad today to give General Pervez Musharraf tips on how to eliminate democracy.

Mr. Bush said he scheduled the trip just hours after General Musharraf declared a state of emergency in Pakistan and suspended elections “because when it comes to eliminating democracy, I thought my friend Pervez could benefit from my experience.”

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  1. 1.

    sparky

    November 5, 2007 at 7:17 am

    Perhaps they can form a coalition of the dissemblers.

  2. 2.

    nightjar

    November 5, 2007 at 8:22 am

    From another tough guy wingnut Don Surber on Musharraf

    So right-wingers will take another hit from the left?

    I might care if instead of chumming it up with Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez and every other anti-American dictator, the left held itself to the standards it would impose on the right.

    Don’t you love it when wingnuts play the victim card, while imploring the left to be their usual forgiving and understanding selves toward the right. While at the same time blaming dems for being much worse than wingnuts anyway.
    In this instance for our undying love and support of all dictators everywhere. Barf!

  3. 3.

    myiq2xu

    November 5, 2007 at 8:37 am

    That makes perfect sense. Der Monkey is experienced at ignoring violating suspending constitutional law.

  4. 4.

    scarshapedstar

    November 5, 2007 at 8:57 am

    Bush’s remarks:

    If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.

  5. 5.

    Zifnab

    November 5, 2007 at 9:41 am

    Don’t you love it when wingnuts play the victim card, while imploring the left to be their usual forgiving and understanding selves toward the right. While at the same time blaming dems for being much worse than wingnuts anyway.

    No one ever talks about the time Clinton illegally invaded Waco, now do they? Or when President Jane Fonda sucked up to the Vietcog? Or when Edward Kennedy had his girlfriend executed at Chappidwick?

    AT LEAST MUSHARIFF IS FIGHTING TERRORISTS WHO WANT TO KILL US!!! That’s more than can be said for you egg-sucking liberal traitors.

  6. 6.

    Punchy

    November 5, 2007 at 9:50 am

    U.S. Gov’t– We reserve the right to waterboard our own citizens

    Mr Sands asked whether he could imagine any circumstances in which waterboarding could be justified on an American national by a foreign intelligence service. “One would have to apply the facts to the law to determine whether any technique, whatever happened, would cause severe physical pain or suffering,” Mr Bellinger said.

    When Mr Sands said he found Mr Bellinger’s inability to exclude waterboarding on Americans very curious, the US official replied: “Well, I’m not willing to include it or exclude it. Our justice department has concluded that we just don’t want to get involved in abstract discussions.”

  7. 7.

    scarshapedstar

    November 5, 2007 at 10:10 am

    Our justice department has concluded that we just don’t want to get involved in abstract discussions.

    It’s funny, when they don’t want to talk about something, they say it’s because they philosophically oppose “abstract discussions” and “hypotheticals”, yet they seem to have no qualms about informing us that “if the Democrats don’t pass this bill, terrorists might nuke Manhattan.”

  8. 8.

    capelza

    November 5, 2007 at 10:38 am

    Don Surber, Don Surber…sigh.

    The “Left” chums it up with Anti-american dictators? (Which reminds me, John Cole..you’re Che t-shirt is also in the mail. We ALL wear them you know, it’s a rule. Like the Mormon “garment”, you must wear it under your street clothes and even your jammies.)

    Just because many think the Cuban embargo is stupid (and rather a huge and unsuccessful bullying tactic that has gone on for nearly 50 years..pointless) doesn’t make them “chummy” with Castro. It makes them intelligent people who recognise that a giant has been picking on it’s small neighbour for decades with no real result escept votes in South Florida.

    Mushareff…once again, America, “Freedom, Inc.” is…oh hell, Uzbekistan, boiling peple alive, etc, etc, etc…but damn, that Saddam, he was such a meanie…you do know he oppressed his people. We Americans won’t stand for that!

  9. 9.

    Tsulagi

    November 5, 2007 at 11:05 am

    U.S. Gov’t—We reserve the right to waterboard our own citizens

    America first, goddamnit!

    Funny. Not even the top legal adviser in the State Dept. is sure which way the WH would lean in whether it would be a good thing or a bad thing for foreign governments, militaries, intelligence and police agencies, etc. to waterboard US civilian citizens. Too esoteric, too abstract to take a position whether that would be right or wrong.

    Vote Republican! They got your back.

  10. 10.

    TenguPhule

    November 5, 2007 at 11:43 am

    George W. Bush flew to Islamabad today to give General Pervez Musharraf tips on how to eliminate democracy.

    The Onion just filed a plagerism suit against reality.

  11. 11.

    scarshapedstar

    November 5, 2007 at 11:50 am

    The Onion just filed a plagerism suit against reality.

    Er… it’s Andy Borowitz, “Winner Of The First-Ever National Press Club Award For Humor”.

  12. 12.

    Dreggas

    November 5, 2007 at 12:25 pm

    nightjar Says:

    From another tough guy wingnut Don Surber on Musharraf

    So right-wingers will take another hit from the left?

    I might care if instead of chumming it up with Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez and every other anti-American dictator, the left held itself to the standards it would impose on the right.

    Funny I don’t recall having to be chummy chummy with Chavez or Castro. I also love how the party of personal responsibility and “moral courage” won’t stand up and do the right thing but plays the Democrats/Left/Clinton did it too card. How any thinking person who is not the second generation of their family to walk upright can remain a republican at this point is beyond me.

  13. 13.

    Chris Johnson

    November 5, 2007 at 12:33 pm

    Bloody hell, I can’t tell anymore whether this stuff is joke or nightmare.

    Reading the actual article reveals it as an obvious joke, but the bit Michael linked was just straight enough to be plausible as a horrible gaffe, considering that Bush’s people have in fact made extraordinary, major preparations in the event that they should choose to end democracy. I mean, massive privately-run internment camps.

    Jokes like that can come back to haunt you.

  14. 14.

    Dreggas

    November 5, 2007 at 12:37 pm

    Chris Johnson Says:

    Bloody hell, I can’t tell anymore whether this stuff is joke or nightmare.

    Reading the actual article reveals it as an obvious joke, but the bit Michael linked was just straight enough to be plausible as a horrible gaffe, considering that Bush’s people have in fact made extraordinary, major preparations in the event that they should choose to end democracy. I mean, massive privately-run internment camps.

    Jokes like that can come back to haunt you.

    wanna make bets on whether they will? I mean bush is watching closely…taking notes and such.

  15. 15.

    dbrown

    November 5, 2007 at 12:53 pm

    And to think, it Pakistan LAWYERS who are standing up (and getting beaten by the police) to fight this fudge packing animal

  16. 16.

    srv

    November 5, 2007 at 1:34 pm

    Just how many wars will W lose?

  17. 17.

    Sirkowski

    November 5, 2007 at 2:38 pm

    Zifnab Says:
    No one ever talks about the time Clinton illegally invaded Waco, now do they?

    Why can’t the govmint leave all those innocent pedos like Koresh alone, amirite?

  18. 18.

    Bubblegum Tate

    November 5, 2007 at 4:50 pm

    No one ever talks about the time Clinton illegally invaded Waco, now do they?

    At BlogsforBush, they not only talk about it, they claim that the dirty fucking hippies’ lack of nonstop screaming outrage about it means that they are ini favor of burning American babies alive. I’m not even making that up.

  19. 19.

    Cain

    November 5, 2007 at 9:40 pm

    Normally, I might applaud lawyers getting pummeled. But in this case, it’s sad to see the police going after the very institutions of democracy. It’s obvious that it’s not right wing religious types they are going after.

    cain

  20. 20.

    Bruce Moomaw

    November 6, 2007 at 12:12 am

    Unfortunately, the following quote from Joshua Kurlantzick’s new TNR column is NOT a parody; it’s real:

    “As Derek Chollet and Craig Cohen note in a recent article in the Washington Quarterly, President Bush announced last year: ‘When [Musharraf] looks me in the eye and says there won’t be a Taliban and won’t be Al Qaeda, I believe him.’ (Of course, Bush’s personal radar isn’t exactly foolproof — he also looked into Vladimir Putin’s soul and saw an ally who wanted a ‘constructive relationship’ with America. Whoops.)”

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