Pakistan and al Qaeda.

Today, Putz writes:

PAKISTAN'S WAZIRISTAN ACCORD with the Taliban/Al Qaeda remnants has failed, and they're using the safe haven to reconstitute. Is anyone surprised by this?

But on 9/6/06, Putz went out of his way to parrot the Bush administration's talking points on the deal, qualifying the alarmist post from Roggio.

BILL ROGGIO: "The news of the Pakistani government signing a truce agreement with the Taliban in North Waziristan is far worse than being reported." Note, however, that Pakistan is denying reports that it's given Osama a pass.

Hmmm. That sounds an awful lot like what Tony Snow said on 9/6/06:

The White House also defended the deal, saying Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's government "has been very cooperative in helping track down members of al-Qaeda."

"There's been an implication that somehow this throws open the border area to al-Qaeda. That does not make sense for the government of Pakistan," White House spokesman Tony Snow said, responding to reporters' questions in Washington. "We don't believe it is the case," he said. "And I think what's happened is, as quite often happens, people try to connect dots that aren't there."

Why no condmenation of the Bush White House on this, Putz? Can you imagine if Clinton or Obama sat on their hands while one of our "allies" signed a treaty with al Qaeda -- and the White House Press Secretary publicly defended it? Putz and the Victory Caucusers would be in full-on lynch mob mode.