• silverwhisper said on Nov 06, 2007....

  i've been looking forward to seeing the bush administration response re: pakistan and musharraf. :D
  
  ed

• bloc said on Nov 06, 2007....

  they said they were dissapointed. Seriously, that's been their response so far.

• TinSoldier said on Nov 06, 2007....

  This is a tough one. I think that Algeria and Turkey have faced similar challenges to democracy -- is it acceptable if a country democratically elects a theocratic regime over a secular dictatorship? Either way, true freedom suffers.

• bloc said on Nov 06, 2007....

  This is tough. The problem is that supporting dictators leads to people growing up and hating america. How would you feel if you lived in a dictatorship whose government was kept in power by a foreign country? Think saudi arabia. 
  
  
  When someone like me points this out we are called "unamerican" and we are told that they hate us for our freedom. 

• TinSoldier said on Nov 06, 2007....

  I agree, bloc, but it seems kind of a "damned if we do, damned if we don't" kind of thing.

• silverwhisper said on Nov 07, 2007....

  bloc: saudi arabia? hell, what about freaking iran?
  
  jeez, i hope that this isn't another iran in the making...
  
  ed

• sheltercrow said on Nov 07, 2007....

  U.S. Plan Envisioned Nuking Iran, Syria, Libya
   
  Despite years of denials, a secret planning document issued by the U.S. military's nuclear-weapons command in 2003 ordered preparations for nuclear strikes on countries seeking to acquire weapons of mass destruction, including Iran, Saddam Hussein-era Iraq, Libya and Syria.

  A briefing (pdf) on the document obtained by the Federation of American Scientists, showed that the document itself was created to flesh out a 2001 Bush administration revision of long-standing nuclear-weapons policy, known as the Nuclear Posture Review. That review was a Defense Department-led attempt to wean nuclear policy off a Cold-War focus on Russia and China, but the shift raised questions about what purpose nuclear forces would serve apart from deterring an attack. In March 2002, leaks indicated that the review would recommend preparations for nuclear attacks against WMD-aspirant states. Arms Control Today pointed out at the time that planning to attack non-nuclear states that were signatories to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty reversed decades of U.S. nuclear policy.

  U.S. Plan Envisioned Nuking Iran, Syria, Libya

  By Spencer Ackerman - November 5, 2007, 1:00PM http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004639.php

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