Who thinks the little monkey in a uniform Musharaff didn't check with his handlers in DC before...

...he suspended the constitution in order to fight terrorism more effectively?

I promise this tin pot dictators doesn't do anything without getting the Okay from the Bush regime first.

He never has.

Don

in itself speaks volumes.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2202395&mesg_id=2202395

We have to take that into consideration here.

Don

another mess they're incapable of dealing with. Send in soldiers? Not likely-where would they get the warm bodies?

So Musharaff is deposed and by election or coup another cleric-run state is born. With nukes. Another Bush fuckup. Or another opportunity to start banging the TERROR drum again. Either way, a dictator is preferable. Washington has always liked pliant authoritarians, better for business.

None here on my TV.

Bush and his minions like that.

Don

racist much?

He's the President of Pakistan. Grow up.

You must not have noticed?

And by the way anyone who calls a thuggish dictator a president has lost touch with reality.

Don

and Musharaff isn't deserving of anything but condemnation.

I can't stand him.

But he's nobody's monkey, and to characterize him as such is silly.

Despite warnings, Bush officials couldn't stop Musharraf
By Renee Schoof and Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers

* Posted on Saturday, November 3, 2007


WASHINGTON — The imposition of emergency rule on Saturday in nuclear-armed Pakistan underscores how little influence the Bush administration has on events in a country that has become the bulwark in the U.S. fight against terrorism.

U.S. officials moved quickly to denounce the order by Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, which suspended the constitution and shut down non-government news media. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the U.S. government was "deeply disturbed" by the move, which the White House called "very disappointing."

Washington's lack of influence, however, was palpable. On Friday, both Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in Turkey for talks on Iraq, and Adm. William J. Fallon, the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, had warned Musharraf not to impose emergency rule. But Musharraf didn't even wait for Fallon, who was in Pakistan, to leave the country before making his declaration.

Foreign policy experts said there were few steps the administration could take to pressure Musharraf to change course.

more...

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/21076.html

is little more than a tool of the Defense Dept, have left us without influence.