Oh look! Events are once again transpiring in a manner so as to make dubya look like Wile E. Coyote. Another of his foreign policy myths has blown up in his face. The one with the US as benevolent bringer of democracy. Back last year, when the preznit was still peddling the illusion that democracy could be spread like apple butter throughout the Middle East, this is what he had to say about Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf:

"The president is a strong defender of freedom and the people of Pakistan," Bush said that day, side by side with Musharraf.

Over the weekend Pervez Musharraf suspended Pakistan's constitution and disbanded it's Supreme Court, canceled upcoming elections, shut down television and radio stations and newspapers, and began rounding up lawyers and judges and political activists.

Wow. You really couldn't be much more wrong about something than that, could you? Wile E. Coyote's eyebrows would be on fire right now.