White House Voices Unwavering Support For Musharraf

[Purveyor]

Source: AFP

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The White House on Monday said it continues to support Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, as he resists pressures to step down after his allies were defeated in legislative elections a week ago.

US President George W. Bush "does support President Musharraf for all of the work that he's done to help us in counterterrorism," White House spokeswoman Dana Perino told reporters.

"And if you look at what we asked President Musharraf to do, which is to take off the uniform, to set free and fair elections, and to lift the emergency order, he did all of those things," she added.

"And so now it will be up to the people of Pakistan to see what their new government will look like. But (Bush) does certainly support him and has continued to," Perino said.



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[LSparkle]

1. If I have to hear that stupid expression "take off the uniform" one more time

I'm going to ... :puke:

RatBastard prides himself on making *his* style of diplomacy PERSONAL -- He "saw into the soul" of Putin; he blindly supports Musharraf and Maliki just because he's chewed rolls with them. He has no idea of REAL diplomacy, which is dealing with a head of state representing a COUNTRY, not just a good ole buddy he may have driven around his Crawford ranch. He's a foreign policy dunce.

[susu369]

2. The expected brilliant thinking from this cabal

:sarcasm:

[HawkerHurricane]

3. "We can't support dictators like Castro..."

But we can support dictators like Musharaf.

[ixion]

4. to set free and fair elections

but to ignore their result...typical BushCo tyranny.

[Supersedeas]

5. One helluva foreign policy that Condi has devised for the Chimp

[damntexdem]

6. Dubya's unwavering support won't matter ...

as Musharraf's position wavers.

[xxqqqzme]

7. '...to set free and fair elections...'

maybe he did do as * asked. But then he went one step farther, he decided to ignore the results.