[SunStar]

No amount of spin or misinformation can change the fact that Bush has done exaclty what Clinton did in Shanghai back in those dark days of Clinton rule.

Our government, President Bush included, is obviously scared of China and their threat of war. They are clearly a superpower and our chief rival.

[philosofy123]

We have already said to the world that might makes right. We started unilaterlism, and we cannot tell other big powers not to take things in their own hands?

[Arthalion]

Our government, President Bush included, is obviously scared of China and their threat of war. They are clearly a superpower and our chief rival.

Which makes Bush's performance all the more pathetic. Never in history has the U.S. publically cowed before dictators or superpowers, sacrificing what's RIGHT for what's economically feasible or peaceful. We stood up to England, Spain, Germany, the USSR, and others, even when it put us in grave peril, because America supports freedom, no matter what the cost. Bush may be adept at mouthing the words, but he essentially just told a free and democratic nation to "shut up and sit down" simply because they don't want to be swallowed up by a domineering communist nation? Is this what the American Way is being reduced to?

This isn't going to make me popular among the BushBots, but what in the hell have we REALLY gained during this presidency? Two botched occupations? The systematic dismantling of our nations economic backbone? The infringement of our civil liberties in the name of "national security"? The promised continued denial of our second amendment rights? The abandonment of our traditional world role as the protectors of democracy? The ONLY redeeming quality that I can find in Bush is his Christianity, and I question even that. A man who walks in the footsteps of Jesus while handing his nation to Satan is no more Christian than the Islamist murderers he claims to be fighting. I made the mistake of voting for Bush the first time around, but I think I'm going to sit the next one out.

I REALLY hope the Taiwanese tell Bush where to shove it...there's simply no excuse for this kind of behavior from an American President.