Twisted Logic on Pakistan

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This is the type of logic we can expect from Democrats, and one more example why we need to work hard to ensure a Democrat doesn’t get into the White House:

Democratic New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, a former U.S. ambassador to
the United Nations, called on President Bush to force Musharraf to step
down. Until then, Richardson said the U.S. must suspend military aid to
the Pakistani government.

“A leader has died, but democracy must live. The United States
government cannot stand by and allow Pakistan’s return to democracy to
be derailed or delayed by violence,” Richardson said.

Calling on Bush to force Musharraf out?  Um, hello?  Does the man not understand our enemy has been trying to do just that for quite some time.  So now, according to this Democrat, we should stand tall beside al-Qaeda and help to remove him from power.

Wow….

This is the mindset of these people.  They apparently have no ability to think further in the future then a few days. Jimmy Carter was a-ok with letting the Shah fall in Iran because, well, he wasn’t nice enough.  Look how that has turned out for the world.  Now Richardson would force Musharraf out of Pakistan, which would install his last rival, Sharif.  A fanatical Islam fanboi. 

Now that would work wonders for the war on terror…../sarcasm.

Michael Goldfarb:

In effect, Richardson wants to kick a jihadist-infested country with
nuclear weapons that’s teetering on the edge of absolute chaos over
that edge. For this clumsy effort to distinguish himself from the
presidential pack, Richardson wins Campaign ’08’s “Better to remain
silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt”
award.

Then on our side of the aisle we have Huckabee apologizing for the United States regarding the assassination:

Mike Huckabee strode out to the strains of “Right Now” by Van Halen and
immediately addressed the Bhutto situation, expressing “our sincere
concern and apologies for what has happened in Pakistan.”

Way to go Mike!  You sound just like Jimmy Carter….

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Insanity, thy name is “Democrats”.

While I am no fan of Mike Huckabee and have been waiting impatiently for his campaign to fall, one could interpret his comment to be along the lines of what a person would say upon hearing bad news from a friend.

FRIEND ONE: My father died today.
FRIEND TWO: Oh, my gosh, I’m so sorry.

That’s pretty much how I interpreted it. Granted, because of his ridiculous ignorance on foreign policy he has shown in the past few weeks, he has opened himself up for people to assume he meant it the way you interpreted it.

Add Ron Paul to your list.

Looks like we can add Dodd to the list also 

DODD: It reflects once again the misdirection in my view of the (Bush) Administration on focusing on Iraq and Iran. I’ve been saying for months that Pakistan and Afghanistan deserve more attention.

It’s still the epicenter of international terrorism, of where Osama bin Laden is, here. And yet the administration continues to focus its efforts, its resources, its time and effort on Iraq and Iran.

These guys obviously have a playbook: sound statesmanlike in the press releases, while bashing Bush and throwing partisan slime when it seems safe to do so. Could they be any phonier?

my thoughts exactly

Thats after Feingold also spun his talking points 

FEINGOLD: The focus on Iraq has been a real disservice to focusing on this part of the world where a great, frankly somebody who had great leadership and following, has been killed.

Michael, here’s another way to look at it.

FRIEND ONE: My father died today after his car was rear-ended by a hit-and-run driver.
FRIEND TWO: Oh, my gosh, I apologize.
FRIEND ONE: Were you the driver ???

Apologize is the wrong word to use under the circumstances. It implies some guilt.

Igor – I agree, he should have said “we send our sympathies”, not “apologies”, but I just figured he probably meant sympathies and it just came out apologies.

I can’t stand Mike Huckabee, I hope he crashes and burns sometime soon and I take him to task for the inane things he says and his ridiculous policy proposals and lies about his record, however, on this, I’ll give him a pass.

I just think of what I say to people when they tell me of bad news that happens to them or their family/friends/coworkers/whatever. My first response is usually “oh my gosh, I’m so sorry”, even though I don’t have anything to apologize for and have no reason to be sorry. Basically, by saying “I’m sorry”, it is short for saying “I’m sorry that you are feeling pain from this situation and I can’t do anything to take it away.” But, since I am not that formal in speaking, I just say “oh my gosh, I’m so sorry”. So that’s how I interpreted his statement.

That said, as I said previously, I can understand people jumping on the “apologies” thing, because of his past ridiculous statements on foreign policy.

Though I will say, that if Mike Huckabee has said anything about our pushing Benazir Bhutto to go back to Pakistan for the elections and blaming that on her assassination, then I could see his “apologies” alluding to that mindset and, in that case, I would agree with you that he is blaming America. But, I just took it as him trying to send sympathies and instead said apologies.

Why the CIA (or a military contractor outfit) doesn’t just pay a technician to weld shut a valve at a Pakistani nuke plant…I just don’t know.

After Bhutto: What happens now?

With literally thousands of news articles produced about the death of Benazeer Bhutto, there is not much left to say about it. The media has begun to inflate her importance, but the real story will now become the aftermath. Bhutto