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Two observations: One, President Bush is the first president to give solid unwaivering support to the only free deomcracy in the middle east – Israel.

Two – he also removed a dictator masquerding as a president with taking out Saddam Hussein.

Richardson's position seems kind of funny. If you work with dictators, there is a problem. If you don't work with them, you're lambasted for being US centric – and have 'the wold hates us' lable pasted all over us.

IF you want to see where we support dictators in the worst way, take a look at the UN. There is a real dictatorship in the making.

First Richardson says Bush is too supportive of dictators, and then says we need to keep the U.N.

Is he sophisticated enough to know he just flip-flpped?

Selim, perhaps you would do yourself a favor by cracking open a history book regarding Musharraf. He IS a dictator, a self appointed leader who seized power in a bloodless coup. Not exactly a democratically elected leader.

It's no secret that the US supports dictators that are friendly to our economic and strategic interests. This has always been the case. It wouldn't bother me so much if we would just be open and honest about it instead of parading around as some benevolent force of democracy. We know that's far from the case as our OWN government is corrupt to the core and the american people are too discouraged or apathetic to do anything to change it.

I think the GOP has been too supportive of the dictator we have in the White House right now.

Isn't this the same guy that wants to help bailout Castor and Hugo Chavez??

So if Musharraf isn't going after the terrorists in his own country why are we allies with this guy?

Also, if we're at war in Iraq to save people from a dictatorship (are we allowed to talk about the WMD we didn't find out there?) then why are we supporting other dictatorships?

Do you we make an exception for every occasion.

Should US foreign policy be supportive of dictators, when it serves US interests?
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Somebody want to tell me how much money we give to developing countries. We support developing countries without sending them money, we support them here. What percent of cooks are from developing countries and where do you think the money is going?

Wow...he must know someone at CNN....other than quoting Michael Moore – I can't think of a more irrelevant person...can you?

Bush is getting more bang for his buck then Clinton did. One good example of this would be the North Koreans who took the money Clinton offered and then went ahead with their nuke program anyways...

4 hours ago you posted this article.. NO COMMENTS since?? Really??

Or are you guys at CNN just really lazy about updating your blog with the comments??

Sounds like something Obama said 2 months ago.

Well it certainly took him long enough to figure that out. We all knew that, with the exception of the dumb Republicans. The "commander in chief" is a moron and the rest of the world leaders know that too. Bush thought they just wanted to be his friend.

Really! Who does Castro wish to be president? Could it be Hillary? Didn't the Clinton Adminstration (in which Richardon was a part) play footsie with Kim Jung Il? Didn't Pelosi hang out with the prez of Syria? My, how we forget!

I found Senator Richardson's remarks regarding Gen. Musharraf as "insensitive" in the least sense of the word. Gen. Musharraf is not a dictator, at least not as much of a dictator as the US-backed and US-installed Askar Akayev of Kyrghzistan or the very government the US has. Gen. Musharraf is not dictating anything, he is just under too much pressure from the pro-Islamist militants and the opposition groups who seem to have joined hands for increasing the pressure on Musharraf. Musharraf may be a dictator in the ideal sense but he is not the slightest bit of a dictator when we look at the tyrannies we have in the world, the very tyrannies US has chosen to ignore and even support. S

Hmmm... I wonder how Saddam Hussein, the Taliban, Iran's President, Kim Jun Il, Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, and Palestinian leaders in Hamas feel about President Bush??

No duh. That's because the Bush administration itself is a fascist dictatorship!

Vote for change with Obama in '08!