Some amusing stuff from a Pakistani web site called The Daily Times. Their motto is: “Your right to know. A new voice for a new Pakistan.” They have the same military dictator calling himself a President and remain the new hideout for Osama bin Laden, but they really dig their new press, I assume, which they are consciously modeling after the New York Times.

Try this one: Bush in Baghdad compared with Bob Hope. It quotes from five letters-to-the-editor in Saturday’s Times, and all were negative.

The letter referenced in the headline was quoted thusly:

David Angel of California writes, “Bravo to the president and our brave armed forces for facing the ‘thugs and assassins.’ If only he and they were more focused on facing terrorists. In the administration’s pursuit of whatever lofty goal was accomplished by visiting Iraq Bob Hope-style, I wonder if any thought was given to the rationale for this war effort. Eradicate the terrorists; everything else is window-dressing.”

The Pakistani piece concludes:

However, some of the correspondents, though in a minority, praise the President for his gesture and the courage and concern it shows for the American fighting soldier.

Naturally. It was an anti-American, anti-President Bush paper. What’s the Daily Star’s excuse?

Since it would not be objective to report on the letters to the Times without posting the positive letters as well, though that is exactly what the Pakistani site did, here are the letters they did note include.

From Atul M. Karnik of Queens:

Politics apart, President Bush’s gesture of braving security risks to visit troops in Iraq highlighted the Thanksgiving Day spirit. Our women and men in uniform put their lives at stake so that we may enjoy the privileges of a safe and free society. Mr. Bush, on this ultrasecretive and historic mission, has conveyed the American people’s feelings of deep gratitude for the soldiers’ valor and sacrifice in upholding our cherished ideals of liberty, justice and equality for one and all.

From Herbert W. Stark of Messapequa:

I’ve had many disagreements with President Bush and his administration’s policies and consider him a member of the Republican right wing. But he did the right thing by displaying extraordinary courage in visiting our brave servicemen and servicewomen in Baghdad.

The last one was positive with an asterisk.

My wife told me this afternoon: “It doesn’t matter what we think. He didn’t do it for us.”

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