Presidents

U.S.-backed Pakistani Pervez Musharraf rules the country as a "President," according to American corporate news broadcasts and the Bush administration.

Though Musharraf seized power in 1999 through a military coup, has suspended the Pakistan Constitution twice, and cancelled elections, Bush has held steadfast with Musharraf.

Compare this relationship with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez who Bush and Condi Rice regularly chide for not being "democratic," and destabilizing.

After all, Chavez is giving Venezuelan oil money to the people of Venezuela, and holding elections and referendums, so Chavez must be a threat to Bush and Rice's idea of a democracy.

On democracy and freedom, Bush and Rice have less credibility in the world than they do in the United States, and that's very low and appalling to people who are concerned with such matters. Bush is simply another in the line of numerous American presidents who sing the praises of democracy while subverting it abroad, and in Bush's case at home.

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