Musharraf on Iraq: I will certainly say that it has complicated the issue.

[Javaman]

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6090598/

[Cha]

1. That's a Big Friggin ..

Understatement, eh?

[AntiFascist]

2. He had even stronger things to say in an interview with Paula Zahn....

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/9/25/03544/7945

ZAHN: Is the world a safer place because of the war in Iraq?
MUSHARRAF: No. It's more dangerous. It's not safer, certainly not.

ZAHN: How so?

MUSHARRAF: Well, because it has aroused actions of the Muslims more. It's aroused certain sentiments of the Muslim world, and then the responses, the latest phenomena of explosives, more frequent for bombs and suicide bombings. This phenomenon is extremely dangerous.

ZAHN: Was it a mistake to have gone to war with Iraq?

MUSHARRAF: Well, I would say that it has ended up bringing more trouble to the world.

[Cha]

4. Yeah! I wished he would have

shocked brokaw with that statememt!

ZAHN: Is the world a safer place because of the war in Iraq?
MUSHARRAF: No. It's more dangerous. It's not safer, certainly not.

[BootinUp]

3. He comes across as half-way intelligent

But that brown skin will discredit him with most Americans.

[Cha]

5. Does Allawi's "brown skin"

"discredit him with most Americans"?

Those voting for bush have deaf ears..selective hearing as it were..

They will believe Allawi and not trust Musharraf.

[BootinUp]

6. Allawi is irrelevant

I don't think a majority gives him much weight in their decision making.

On the selective hearing point, certainly that applies to the true believers. It is the few percent still struggling that will listen to George cause he is like them, instead of a foreigner.