Karl, did you forget to call Musharraf?

CNN: PAULA ZAHN NOW 8:00PM September 24, 2004 Friday

ZAHN: Is the world a safer place because of the war in Iraq?

MUSHARRAF: No. It's more dangerous. It's not safer, certainly not.

ZAHN: How so?

MUSHARRAF: Well, because it has aroused actions of the Muslims more. It's aroused certain sentiments of the Muslim world, and then the responses, the latest phenomena of explosives, more frequent for bombs and suicide bombings. This phenomenon is extremely dangerous.

ZAHN: Was it a mistake to have gone to war with Iraq?

MUSHARRAF: Well, I would say that it has ended up bringing more trouble to the world....

"It's not safer, certainly not." From a major "ally in the war on terror". You know, the one who runs that country right next to Afghanistan, on the other side of Iran from Iraq? The one with the extremist madrasas? (Not that he might know anything more than someone who's been spending all his time in swing states recently.)