Rick Reuben wrote:Musharraf keeps bleating that he's under seige by Islamic militants and all I see are a bunch of lawyers in suits getting clubbed and thrown in paddy wagons.

I wonder if those are the same Islamic militants that his intelligence agency helped smuggle out of Afghanistan during the U.S. invasion and then sent to Kashmir to train to BECOME TERRORISTS.

vockins wrote:That Rice quote makes me want to set my house on fire. Jesus Shit, you have got to be fucking kidding me. Double fuck you in a fuck you.

Best infuriated remark. ever.

They did it again! Those taliban motherfuckers again destroyed thousand year old buddha statues!

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.as ... 2007_pg3_6

And the world let's them get away with it again! The bastards who did it must be hunted down, executed and burried in pig carcasses!

Mitt Romney, 8/5/07:
Yes, I think Barack Obama is confused as to who are our friends and who are our enemies.... We've trying to strengthen Musharraf. We're trying to strengthen the foundations of democracy and freedom in that country so that they will be able to reject the extremists.

Presidential.

Mitt Romney, 11/8/07:

"Did I say 'strengthen Musharraf'? I meant chastise. We're trying to encourage democracy, not military juntas. Oh, and I no longer prefer Miracle Whip to mayonnaise. That's so October."

Fred Kaplan, military analyst for Slate, as usual offers some clear analysis.

Fred Kaplan, military analyst for Slate, as usual offers some clear analysis.

vockins wrote:

Ty Webb wrote:

New York Times wrote:Ms. Rice personally intervened twice in the past four months to try to keep General Musharraf from imposing emergency rule, telephoning him at 2 a.m. Pakistani time in August. On Saturday, while traveling to Turkey for an Iraq security conference, she reinforced that message, saying, “I think it would be quite obvious that the United States wouldn’t be supportive of extra-constitutional means."

Not as obvious as it should be, Condi. Physician, heal thyself. The hypocrisy of U.S. foreign policy has always been substantial, but this administration has taken it to such heights, all rhetoric and any of its potential leverage is just so much farting into the wind.

That Rice quote makes me want to set my house on fire. Jesus Shit, you have got to be fucking kidding me. Double fuck you in a fuck you.

vockins, put down that gasoline can.

From a White House press conference yesterday with WH Press Secretary Dana Perino regarding Pakistan:

Q: Is it ever reasonable to restrict constitutional freedoms in the name of fighting terrorism?

MS. PERINO: In our opinion, no.

The U.S. Commander-in-Chief:

You can't be the president and the head of the military at the same time, so I had a very frank discussion with him. (link)

Rick Reuben wrote:
Was there a follow up question? The video on thinkprogress ends with Perino's 'no'. Sounded like Bill Plante of CBS asking the question.

I only saw a clip of the conference on CrooksandLiars.com. She immediately went to another reporter (Mark?), who asked a somewhat irrelevant question about why Bush hadn't personally contacted Musharraff rather than conveying messages through Rice. Perino responded that conveying messages to other heads of state is exactly what the Sec. of State does, which is a reasonable answer to a relatively useless question, IMO. Frankly, the question in combination with the speed with which she called on that reporter reeks of a softball. I think she knew she could count whomever that was NOT to follow the thread about extra-constitutional measures and their supposed necessity to fight terrorism.