The focus of this post is the last two paragraphs of the Yahoo News article.
Take a deep breath and read the whole article. My opinion follows:
Protester Yells at Hu; Bush Apologizes - Yahoo! News:
"'It's hugely embarrassing,' said Derek Mitchell, a former Asia adviser at the Pentagon and now an analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
China 'must know that this Bush administration is good at controlling crowds for themselves, and the fact that they couldn't control this is going to play to their worst fears and suspicions about the United States, into mistrust about American intentions toward China.' "
Wait just a damn mimute!
Why is free speech an embarassment? Wasn't it administration star, Rumsfeld, who said that Democracy is messy. It damn sure is, and we like it like that.
When you come to a Democracy, and you have been behaving like some kind of psychopath, to your own people or others, the people of America mght well confront the hell out of you, providing we have the information and/or the time, because that is or right. It is also our duty.
Real Democracy is not about controlling people. Only totalitarian, fascist states need worry about controlling the people.
So, even more importantly, why is it necessary for the Chinese dictator and torturer to see that Bush can control us?
Pardon me, but WTF?
The United Sates of America is supposed to be a nation of free people with certain rights. The right to speak truth to power is one of the main reasons our founders saw fit to codify Free Speech in the Constitutiton to begin with, for Christ's sake.
Since when are Americans not allowed to confront tyrants who have the audacity to come to our shores and judge our nation by our government's ability to control us?
Hu is allowing the harvesting of body parts from living people, until they are dead from the harvesting, that is.
Bush is apologizing to this butcher?
This makes me sick to my stomach, but I guess this is what happens when you squander you moral authority, for money.
He apologizes to Hu, but won't lower himself to meet with Kim Yung Ill or the prez. of Iran.
George W. Bush has the integrity of pond scum.
May he rot in Hell.
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