Notice that Bush didn't deny it at all, just taken aback by the harshness of it, isn't this the guy who was running around saying we are going to get bin Laden "Dead or Alive" and we were going to bomb the Taliban "back to the Stone Age" maybe the wires got crossed and Armitage thought he was talking to the Taliban instead of the Pakistanis. It's fairly easy to see how that could happen, what with all the excitement surrounding the rush to war and all the preparations and other considerations that had to be made. And of course, Musharraf didn't deny it, did he??? He said "buy my book," and "on the advise of my publisher, I must remain silent about it," which only made Bush so nervous he started making jokes about it. Which is as I have already noted is what he does when he gets nervous, so I think it was all a big mistake and it will all be unravelled as soon as a good cover story can be concocted. But I'm not believeing that old peacnik Richie ever said this, not our Richie..
