Bell Tolls for Bush’s “Freedom Agenda”

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/08/5096/

Bell Tolls for Bush’s “Freedom Agenda”
by Ali Gharib

WASHINGTON- If George W. Bush’s “freedom agenda” is to be his presidential legacy, then his six-year “global war on terror” has been his own worst enemy.

As lawyers in Pakistan are being beaten and arrested by authorities for protesting against the imposition of de facto martial law, Bush has opted to set aside his campaign for democratic reforms in favour of combating terrorism — an effort with questionable results.

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf effectively placed himself at the head of a military dictatorship on Saturday when he suspended the constitution, disbanded the Supreme Court and declared a state of emergency throughout the country.

Musharraf made the announcement ahead of what was expected to be an unfavourable decision from the high court invalidating his latest election victory because he campaigned in his dual role as president and as head of Pakistan’s armed forces.

Protests and anger have continued throughout the week in the South Asian country of 164 million, with the legal establishment especially reeling from the repression.

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“One consequence of this crisis is that Bush’s ‘freedom agenda’ is finally bankrupt,” said Fred Kaplan in his Slate.com column. “He will never again be able to invoke it, even as a rhetorical ploy, without evoking winces or laughter.”

bushie is just jealous cuz mushie is getting away with what he wishes he could do.

A patheiic clown.