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To: PartyTime who wrote (60037)	3/4/2006 12:29:45 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362425

Never in the world's history has one man been hated by so many people at one time. Never: Pakistanis revile Bush BY JAMES RUPERT STAFF CORRESPONDENT March 4, 2006 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistanis shut down their country with a nationwide strike and protests Friday as President George W. Bush flew here from India for talks with President Pervez Musharraf. After Air Force One landed at an air base in Rawalpindi Friday night -- with window shades down and running lights turned off -- Bush's entourage was whisked into a bubble of protection and official welcome. Five Towns College The capital, Islamabad, and many other cities were eerily quiet throughout the day, although thousands of men marched in Peshawar, Multan and Karachi to condemn Bush and the United States, and Musharraf, for allying with them. The protests, plus Thursday's bombing in Karachi that killed an American consulate official, have overshadowed the White House's goal for the trip: to depict a friendly and broad U.S.-Pakistani relationship that reaches beyond simple joint defense in the "global war on terrorism." Timing may be off But if there is a good time for a presidential arrival to showcase such a broad friendship, it seems not to be seven weeks after U.S. forces fired missiles into a Pakistani village near the Afghan border. The attack, aimed at wiping out a top al-Qaida leader, instead killed at least 12 local residents, including women and children. Last month, when protests mushroomed against the publication in Europe of caricatures of the Muslim prophet Muhammad, anger at the missile strike helped militant Islamic politicians here convert the demonstrations into violent outbursts against the United States and Musharraf. Even before the missile attack, Pakistani opinion polls and analysts have registered simmering anger at the United States for years over the deaths of Muslim civilians and abuse of Muslim prisoners at the hands of U.S. forces in Iraq or Afghanistan. The mix of old anger and new was on display in the hours before Bush landed. Pakistan's alliance of Islamic political parties, the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal, called a general strike Friday that left bazaars shuttered and streets empty in Islamabad and other cities. In Multan, in southern Punjab province, the alliance leader, Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman, rallied 10,000 people and criticized Musharraf for inviting an American leader he said had abused Muslims. In Rawalpindi, next to Islamabad, as in Chaman on the Afghan border and Peshawar in the northwest, crowds ranging from 100 to several thousand shouted "Death to Bush," "Bush go home" and other condemnation.

To: PartyTime who wrote (60037)	3/4/2006 6:05:25 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 362425

What cracks me up are the conservative apologists who label these failures as Bush's "Second Term Slump" like they're understandable hiccups with historical precedence. What we have here, ladies and gentlemen, is an incompetent, uncaring, narrow-agenda administration run amok under the weakest (and least intellectual) man who ever occupied the presidency. History will laugh at him, and shame anyone who voted for or supported him at any point in his political career.