Musharraf taking positive steps, says Bush

Damn I wish I could separate reality and what I want to believe as well as Dim Son. However, I don't suffer from cognitive dissonance to anywhere near the extent the idiot does.

President Bush says Pakistan's President General Pervez Musharraf has taken 'positive steps' by promising to lift the state of emergency, step down as army chief, and hold elections early next year.

No, Mr Dumber-than-a-paper-cup, Musharraf has said he will do those things. Next year is a long way off and he might likely change his mind and do none of them.

Via Japan Herald.

Aha! Here's what we know he is doing.

Headline: Pakistan army courts may try civilians

Pakistan's military ruler has amended a law to give sweeping powers to army courts to try civilians on charges such as treason and inciting public unrest, officials said Sunday as a key opposition leader prepared to stage a massive, 185-mile protest march in defiance of a ban.

The moves came one week after President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said he was imposing a state of emergency to help fight Islamic militancy. But the main targets of his crackdown so far have been his most outspoken critics, including the increasingly independent judiciary and media. Musharraf was to hold a press conference with international journalists later Sunday.

Pakistan eased the crackdown Saturday, releasing opposition leader Benazir Bhutto from house arrest. Musharraf - under pressure by the United States and other Western allies to return to the path of democracy - won praise for agreeing to lift the emergency within weeks and hold elections by Feb. 15, just one month later than originally scheduled.

Yeah, no doubt those are 'positive steps'.

Via AP.