NYT Blames Pakistani State of Emergency on Bush

One of the truly great ironies emanating from secular media members is the power they increasingly bestow upon George W. Bush to the point of making him Godlike.

After all, in the past couple of years, the press have depicted this President as being responsible for hurricanes, tornados, wildfires, droughts, floods, global warming, and peace - or lack thereof - anywhere on the face of the planet.

The most recent example of this Bush Derangement Syndrome came from the New York Times Sunday which published an article basically blaming the White House for the current state of emergency in Pakistan.

Entitled "Straying Partner Leaves White House in a Lurch," the piece pointed fingers at Bush with virtually every opportunity (emphasis added):

For more than five months the United States has been trying to orchestrate a political transition in Pakistan that would manage to somehow keep Gen. Pervez Musharraf in power without making a mockery of President Bush's promotion of democracy in the Muslim world.

On Saturday, those carefully laid plans fell apart spectacularly. Now the White House is stuck in wait-and-see mode, with limited options and a lack of clarity about the way forward.

General Musharraf's move to seize emergency powers and abandon the Constitution left Bush administration officials close to their nightmare: an American-backed military dictator who is risking civil instability in a country with nuclear weapons and an increasingly alienated public.

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Teresita Schaffer, an expert on Pakistan at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, called General Musharraf's action "a big embarrassment" for the administration.

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Whatever happens, experts say that General Musharraf's decision was not good news for the Bush administration.

Doesn't this perfectly encapsulate the consequence as well as the motive behind this derangement syndrome: Whatever happens, it's not good news for Bush.

Maybe we should thank the Times for at least having the guts to finally admit it.