Bush confers with despotic major non-nato ally Musharraf

[onelove]

he ain't bin forgotten after all...

By DAVID E. SANGER
New York Times

NEW YORK - President Bush spoke for an hour with President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan on Wednesday morning in a conversation devoted largely to the hunt for Osama bin Laden and terror groups, administration officials said, but he made little effort to persuade Musharraf to hold to his promise to step down as the chief of the army.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/2810073

I'm not suggesting democracy take precedence over the war on terror; but I am pointing up the pervasive use of rhetoric, particularly the loosely-intrepreted phrase "democracy in the middle east". is repetition truth? if we simply called Iraq our client, rather than a budding democracy in the heart of the middle east, would as many americans still support the effort?

 

[jjzelinski]

Oh yeah, Bin Laden. I remember him! He's the guy who tried to distract us from Iraq.

 

[daveshel]

I wonder how much Afghanistan makes on the poppy crop as compared with the oil income of the various middle eastern countries.

 

[onelove]

Is there a point at which the use of rhetoric over and over turns a euphamism into an untruthful statement? Doesn't the speaker have some obligation in this regard?