It appears that Bush administration threats, and their way of doing business, are being exposed by world leaders. The President of Pakistan, in a stunning revelation, discusses Bush administration tactics with the Times.

While Bush’s father used diplomacy (walk softly and all that…) the son never got beyond the stick.

This little snapshot from the pages of the Bush doctrine should serve as notice to everyone in the world, and especially to opponents at home, that we will be crushed to powder if Bush Jr. doesn’t get his way. He might just begin to loose sight of the little barriers that exist in his mind between terrorism and democracy.

If anyone saw Mr. Bush on CNN the previous night you’ll have noticed just how prone he is to anger and threats when he is cornered.

Here are a few excerpts from the Times article on Bush administration threats past and present: We’ll bomb you to Stone Age, US told Pakistan: Musharraf reveals post-9/11 threat in book serialized by The Times

PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, the President of Pakistan, claimed last night that the Bush Administration threatened to bomb his country —into the Stone Age— if it did not co-operate with the US after 9/11, sharply increasing tensions between the US and one of its closest allies in the war on terrorism.

The President, who will meet Mr. Bush in the White House today, said the threat was made by Richard Armitage, then the Deputy Secretary of State, in the days after the terror attacks, and was issued to the Pakistani intelligence director.

—The intelligence director told me that [Armitage] said, ‘Be prepared to be bombed. Be prepared to go back to the Stone Age’,— President Musharraf said. —I think it was a very rude remark.— The claims come at the end of a week in which relations between the US and Pakistan have sharply deteriorated, and days ahead of the publication of President Musharraf’s memoir, In the Line of Fire, which will be serialised in The Times from Monday.

On Wednesday, President Bush, in an interview with CNN, said that he would not hesitate to authorise immediate American military action inside Pakistan if he had intelligence of Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts. Asked if he would give an order to kill the al-Qaeda leader, Mr Bush said —absolutely—.

President Musharraf was clearly angered by Mr Bush’s declaration that the US would act independently of his authority inside Pakistan…