March 21, 2005, The Yin and Yan of Islamic World Popular Protests
The President and supporters seem quite pleased with themselves of late, what with the Schiavo thing (apparently, everyone seems to have missed the fact that my conclusion is that I'd rather the Congress not do what it did... no matter...) and of course, "the march of democracy in the Middle East" (including places Bush should bear no real credit for, like Lebanon and Palestine).
I guess we'll try to overlook this massive popular movement-- protests of at least tens of thousands-- against our buddy Pervez Musharraf in Pakistan.
Better yet, the protests are by those good old Islamist extremists (religious based political parties) that we sort of began the whole "war on terror" thing to... quell. Again, no matter. People are pissed at Musharraf... his pro-American views are unpopular, the economy is doing... badly, he hasn't stepped down as head of the military AND head of state as he once promised...
But... we'll overlook this one... this time...