"Bush Mixing Diplomacy and Campaigning"

[GreenPartyVoter]

NEW YORK (AP) - President Bush, straddling the worlds of diplomacy and re-election politics, is getting in another meeting with a foreign leader before hitting the road to Pennsylvania, a state at the top of his campaign wish list.

Sometimes the two worlds blur together, as they did Tuesday when Bush told Indian Prime Minister Mammohan Singh "how important continuity in U.S. foreign policy is." The quote was repeated by a senior administration official who attended the meeting and briefed several dozen reporters on condition he not be identified.

Bush was meeting Wednesday with Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, a crucial ally in the war against terrorism but one with whom there are strains elsewhere in the relationship.

Musharraf promised Monday to "end the presence of al-Qaida" terrorists in his country, but said the United States needed to win the confidence of Muslims.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20040922/D858MB980.html

[Village Idiot]

1. Saw an interview

with Musharraf on BBC yesterday - it was almost humourous - where he was responding to criticism about what his people were doing to combat Al-Quaeda, and he said that at least Pakistan is doing something in this regard - it's more than ANYONE ELSE was doing.

It seemed like he was being critical of ShrubCo's non-effort with regards to Osama and Al-Q...

[spanone]

2. Bush* could care less about 'the rest of the world'

Iraq is about oil and his speech yesterday was about re-election. The audience didn't want to be lectured by this mental midget. He used a world stage to tell the world how great he is. What a prick.