Everyone's worked up about Bush calling Pakistan "Arab" when the problem

[Bucky]

...when the problem was really with the rest of his statement. Bush said Pakistan was "a force for freedom and moderation in the Arab world." But the truly outrageous part wasn't calling Pakistan by the wrong ethnicity. It's referring to Pakistan as a force for freedom. Pakistan is a fairly repressive country. Certainly they're more moderate than most oftheir neighbors, but this is just one more example of a presient who'se chronically loose with the truth. Like when he attacked Iran for not being a free country and needing the blessings of democracy.

Iran has an elected president and national legislature. That sure sounds like a democracy to me. I don't happen to like their policies in many cases... But you don't get to call people just any old name you want just because you don't like them. Jeeze, what a maroon.