PAY ATTENTION TO PAKISTAN-- IT COULD TURN INTO THE WORST CALAMITY OF THE VERY CALAMITOUS BUSH YEARS

CNN had two right-wing assholes on the air this morning to discuss some nonsense. One was Trent Lott whose mind was obviously elsewhere-- hopefully on retiring-- and who had nothing whatsoever to say. The other was Evan Bayh who wants to run for president. He's a damn fool, a typical insular, myopic American politician. I wasn't paying close attention but I did hear him trying to act tough (posturing) on Iran. He seems to be laboring under the delusion that "everyone" thinks Iran is the biggest supporter of terrorism in the world-- or at least he was saying so-- while it doesn't take much to figure out that "everyone" actually knows exactly who the biggest supporter of terrorism is. I wish I could just say "George W. Bush." But the problem goes deeper-- and "everyone" knows (except Evan Bayh, apparently).

Take our dear allies in Pakistan, for example. Bush and a whole parade of his peeps keep telling us-- and the whole world-- how fabu General President Musharraf is and how cooperative the Pakistanis are in the so-called "war on terrorism"-- and how richly they deserve all the millions and millions of U.S. tax dollars Bush is lavishing on them. Well tens of thousands of them took to the streets today chanting "Death to America." Many would be nearly as happy with the man they see as Bush's puppet, Pervez (aka General President) Musharraf dead. Especially the Islamic coalition (which won the last parliamentary elections in this nuclear-armed Islamic quasi-democracy). You probably know why. The U.S., in our eagerness to kill the very bad Ayman al-Zawahri launched missiles on the Pakistani town of Damadola. Ayman wasn't there but some collateral damage was caused (i.e.- around 20 dead Pakistani women and children, possibly more). Oops.

Pakistanis are wondering if the U.S. had some bogus intelligence that told them a bad man was having dinner at a house in France or Germany or Japan or India if the U.S. would launch missiles on those places too. It's a reasonable question. And it is reasonable for Pakistanis to feel insecure and unsafe right now. How would you feel? Actually, it isn't as important to know how you feel. You don't have nuclear weapons and a parliament filled with obsessed fundamentalist assholes. (Correction: you do have a parliament filled with obsessed fundamentalist assholes.)

I'm so happy that the Bush Regime is chasing down the criminals his utter incompetence allowed to destroy the World Trade Center. Good job, Bushie! I just hope his typically incompetent approach doesn't cause more problems than he solves-- certainly the overwhelming case so far.