Posted on 09/22/2006 5:18:33 PM PDT by silent_jonny
Today, President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan joined President Bush for a press conference in the White House East Room. Click here for video and a complete transcript.
Vice President Dick Cheney spoke at a campaign fundraiser in Rochester, NY.
And Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld addressed a town hall meeting at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.
Enjoy your Friday visit to Sanity Island
Quote of the Day:
Q Mr. President, after 9/11, would the United States have actually attacked Pakistan if President Musharraf had not agreed to cooperate with the war on terrorism? He says that the United States was threatening to bomb his country back into the stone age …PRESIDENT BUSH: First, let me -- she's asking about the Armitage thing. The first I heard of this was when I read it in the newspaper today. You know, I was -- I guess I was taken aback by the harshness of the words.
All I can tell you is, is that shortly after 9/11, Secretary Colin Powell came in and said, President Musharraf understands the stakes and he wants to join and help route out an enemy that has come and killed 3,000 of our citizens. As a matter of fact, my recollection was that one of the first leaders to step up and say that the stakes have changed, that attack on America that killed 3,000 of the citizens needs to be dealt with firmly, was the President. And if I'm not mistaken, Colin told us that, if not the night of September the 11th, shortly thereafter. I need to make sure I get my facts straight, but it was soon.
I don't know of any conversation that was reported in the newspaper like that. I just don't know about it.
PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF: I would like to -- I am launching my book on the 25th, and I am honor-bound to Simon and Schuster not to comment on the book before that day. (Laughter.)
PRESIDENT BUSH: In other words, buy the book, is what he's saying. (Laughter.)
Photo of the Day:
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President Bush walks to a joint news conference with Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf in the East Room at the White House.
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Congratulations!
President Musharraf salutes the audience as he leaves a news conference with President Bush. 
LOVED it!
And our Pres "Buy the book!"
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Orange is my favorite color and I love George W Bush!
hey jonny
YES. YES! I noticed that!
Hi there, Jonny!
Thanks for posting The Dose for us tonight.
& for giving someone
the night off from doing so.
Well Dinah - we have TWO things in common!
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice confers with White House Counsel Stephen Hadley, left, with Pakistan's Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri.
President Bush and first lady Laura Bush call out to their dogs Barney and Miss Beazley from the Colonnade outside the Oval Office.
The President and First Lady pose with Katherine Kerry Close, the 2006 Scripps National Spelling Bee Champion, in the Oval Office.
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