Like Father, Like Son

From the latest Harper's Weekly Review,

   Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf rewrote his country's
   constitution, creating 29 amendments that allow him to dissolve the
   elected parliament, to appoint military leaders and supreme-court
   justices, and to give military officials political power. Musharraf,
   who came to power after a coup in 1999 and who declared himself
   president last year, also extended his term in office. "Obviously, to
   the extent that, you know, our friends promote democracy, that's
   important," President Bush responded, and assured the American public
   that Musharraf is "still tight with us in the war against terror, and
   that's what I appreciate."

   Lawyers for President Bush determined that he can launch an attack on
   Iraq without approval from Congress, since the permission his father
   received in 1991 to engage in the Persian Gulf War remains in effect.

So, let's see if I've got this right. The younger Bush inherits the elder
Bush's "permission" to depose Hussein, and we're staying in Bed with
Musharraf, who's sounding more like a Hussein in training every day, in
order to defeat Hussein?

I guess that means eventually we can expect Bush's nitwit nephew or his
drunkard daughter or one of Brother Niel's retarded children to be elected
in 10 or 12 years in order to defeat the by-then declared-evil Musharraf?

It would be funny if it weren't so fucking obscene.

Kendall Clark