It’s a sad day when a foreign leaders word is more trust-worthy than our own Presidents.  But that’s where we are thanks to our idiot-in-chief.

From CNN.COM: 

Bush ‘taken aback’ about report on Pakistan, 9/11

WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush on Friday said he was “taken aback” by a report that a U.S. official threatened the United States would attack Pakistan if it did not help immediately after 9/11.

Bush made the remarks at a White House news conference with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, thanking the U.S. ally for his role in the war on terror.

The Pakistan president has told CBS News that — immediately following the September 11, 2001, attacks — the Bush administration threatened to bomb his country “back to the Stone Age” if Pakistan did not help in the U.S. war on terrorism.

Bush said he first heard of the U.S. official’s alleged comment “in the newspaper today.”

“I was taken aback by the harshness of the words,” he said.

“All I can tell you is that shortly after 9/11, Secretary [of State] 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.”

The U.S. official that Musharraf identified in the CBS report was Richard Armitage, who was then U.S. deputy secretary of state. Armitage on Friday denied the allegation.

“Never did I threaten to use military force,” Armitage told CNN. “I was not authorized to.”

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