No one could have anticipated

Condi's regret that everything is going to shit:

While making the Turks even angrier, Condi Naste managed to once again do her Mary Tyler Moore style of exasperation:

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday it was "highly regrettable" that Pakistan's president had declared a state of emergency. She urged restraint on all sides and a swift return to democracy.

The United States "does not support extraconstitutional measures," Rice said in an interview with CNN from Turkey, where she was participating in a conference with Iraq's neighbors.

As Swopa said, extra Constitutional stuff is for Republicans only.

But "highly regrettable"?

Oh my, that's callin' 'em out there Madam Supertanker (I made that up myself...just ask Joel Stein, besides I've never heard of Billmon, where do they blog?). Now on to the shoes.

No Bush Buddy, no matter how authoritarian, no matter how much they are fucking up in the "War O' Terro" is ever going to be in hot water. Not after Bush looks into their soul with his "+3 Amulet of Deep Jesus Perceptionerin'". The fact that bin Laden and the rest of those that actually attacked on 9/11 are in control of the northern third of the country is ignored as we blame an entirely different type of theocracy as being the real terrorists...de jour.

Al Qaeda, Al Quds, the PKK they're all brown people who pray on rugs (as opposed to wearing them or making them disappear) all cogs in the mighty dangerous "them".

They're are even bonus non-Islamic indigenous Brown People from randomly named South American Countries to be thrown in. The most dangerous man in the world is like an AT&T wireless commercial, Hugo bin Ahmadinijhad.

UPDATE:

Here's your Bush-Buddy in Action:

Pakistan police on Sunday began a roundup of 1,500 lawyers, judges and political activists on a list of people to be arrested one day after Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency, police sources and witnesses said.

Looks like Freedom's Marching off to Prison.