Hypocrisy Shout Out

I like how the States gets off on telling other countries that they can't do what the US does because they're not "good" or "God's favoured people" or "blind believers in American Democracy" or whatever.

You can't have nuclear weapons! Why do we have them? Oh, because we can be trusted, and you can't.

We always support the rule of law! Unless of course, we don't like your law.

Talking about removing the President of the US is treason! We only remove leaders of countries we like to bully.


Now, I'm upset as any human should be about what President Gen. Pervez Musharraf is doing in Pakistan. Today I wondered if I would risk what would be risked to go and help the protesters if I lived closer to their country. But I'm still going to jump on a comment like this:

"You can't be the president and the head of the military at the same time," Bush said Wednesday, describing to reporters his phone conversation with Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf.

Hold the phone.

From Wikipedia on the Presdient of the United Stats of America:

"Perhaps the most important of all presidential powers is command of the armed forces as commander-in-chief.

...To carry out this duty, he is given control of the four million employees of the vast executive branch, including one million active duty personnel in the military.

...While the power to declare war is constitutionally vested in Congress, the president commands and directs the military and is responsible for planning military strategy.

Sure we can, but Pakistan? No, they can't do that. Obviously.