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A Dictator Gets Tips From an Old ProPosted on Nov 11, 2007In what he described as “an emergency mission to help a key ally in the war on terror,” President George W. Bush flew to Islamabad today to give President Pervez Musharraf tips on how to eliminate democracy.
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By Nancy, November 14, 2007 at 2:42 am # Hahahahah...maybe I’m tired, but that was FUNNY. Seriously, there is NOTHING hidden that will not be revealed. You can take that as a prophesy. Wait and see, forget me if it don’t happen…
By msgmi, November 12, 2007 at 10:55 am # GW’s trip to Islamabad could not have been more timely. No doubt that GW is personally delivering to Musharraf a neo-CON laundry list of how to get things under control without losing control. Look for GW and Musharraf to have a hand-holding press conference in order to signal the region that mutual frienship is at its highest level. Several days later, Musharraf will declare and suggest that he will comply with the democratic principles of the Pakistani constitution, step down as its military kahuna, and seek exile in the United States. That should calm down the dissentors, give GW a feather in his diplomacy cap, and everything will be resolved. Leave it to GW, a master at solving world problems.
By Alan MacDonald, November 12, 2007 at 6:59 am # How true, and yet so sad (and dangerous), that Bush is so guilefully expert at the Orwellian propaganda of saluting and even celebrating ‘faux democracy’, will excuting the real thing. But one must remember that Bush has the help of the entire global corporatist Empire behind this facade of ‘Vichy America’: the phony two-party ‘Vichy’ politics, the phony ‘Vichy’ MSM, and the devestating ‘Vichy’ economic wealth of Wall Street. Recently Frank Rich in an NYT op-ed, “Coup at Home” allowed some truth about this comparison between Musharraf’s versio of democracy and Bush’s to slip out to the American public --- at least in humorous and implied form: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/opinion/11rich.html? n=Top/Opinion/Editorials and Op-Ed/Op-Ed/Columnists/Frank Rich My following comments to Rich also apply to Borowitz’s humorous truth here. “Yes, I agree with Mr. Rich that a “Coup at Home” is a problem --- whether one’s home is Pakistan or America. Yes, real democracy is the only defense against coups (and also authoritarian dictators, kings, generals, fuhrers and emperors) in any country! Unfortunately, the NYT editorial, which Mr. Rich referenced, “The Mess in Pakistan”, ends with this wobbly conclusion, which seems to only to prescribe the ‘appearance of democracy’ --- rather than real democracy: “Ultimately, democracy, not dictatorship, is the best hope for a stable Pakistan. [But] Reviving General Musharraf’s back-room deal with the former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, however distasteful, may be a way back from the abyss if it includes a real commitment to elections by the general, if Ms. Bhutto insists that the elections be open to all parties and if Mr. Bush gives her strong backing.” Thus the Times seems to be saying that regardless of how “distasteful” such a contrived and pre-scripted sham of democracy might be, that it is ‘the least worst’ possible outcome. So perhaps, Mr. Rich, we have come to some insight on “Coup(s) at Home” that would enlighten people everywhere about the glaring contrast between Bush’s (and America’s) vaunted ‘Democracy Agenda’/’Freedom Agenda’ --- and the poor results that this ‘agenda’ has achieved everywhere. The blunt truth is that Bush’s ‘Democracy Agenda’ can be reduced to the simple truth of a scheme to create only the ‘appearance of democracy’ in order to facilitate the maintenance of Empire ---- and that that truth applies universally to “The Coup at (our) Home” as well as “Coups at Home” in the Empire’s territories. The big public glitzes that Mr. Rich accurately sees through in ‘Freedom Celebrations’ and ‘Democracy Agendas’ is more than what he calls an “Orwellian exercise in branding”, this is also the cynical franchising of the Empire’s success in marketing Orwellian faux democracy from its headquarters in ‘Vichy America’ outward to its global territories. If the population, here at home, can be sold the ‘image of democracy’ through a sophisticated ‘Three Card Monte’ scheme of two apparently battling political parties, and an apparently objective press, then why can’t this facade of democracy by the corporatist Empire be sold throughout the world ---- after all, to multi-national corporatism this is just global marketing in the vaunted era of ‘globalization’. However, the sad truth that will bring an end to this Orwellian ‘bubble’ of false success, and to the global corporatist Empire itself is the following: Even to mention Bush’s “freedom agenda” or “democracy agenda” or (as Lieberman does) “democracy promotion” by the MSM is nothing short of Orwellian double-speak.
By thomas billis, November 11, 2007 at 7:24 pm # One guy is a ruthless dictator who robs his people of basic human rights and condones torture the other guy is Musharaff. Add Your Comment |
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