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Sure, no problem. But first I'd like to see quotes attributed to Powell and Rumsfield. Secondly, the spy plane flights resumed two weeks after the troops were returned. If you don't think thats different from what Clinton/Gore would have done, you're wacky. Third, what was the alternative to what the Bush Admin did? Launch 100 nukes or 200 nukes? Fourth, Bush announced to all of China, while in China, that we would defend Taiwan. That is 180 degrees different than Clinton/Gore. Get back to me with Rummies feelings on the matter though, I'd sure be interested

History teaches that the appeasement of dictators in the vain hope that they will leave you alone in the short-run is a self-defeating policy in the medium to long run. Instead of following Powell's advice to appease the ChiComs by issuing a humiliating formal apology to the ChiCom hostage takers, he should have followed Rummy's advice by making the case to the world that the ChiCom hotdog pilot was to blame for the entire incident and threaten the PRC with heavy sanctions and perhaps even military action if China did not surrender the 24 American servicemen. Rather than launch nuclear strikes as China as you said, Bush could have announced the immediate cutting off of all trade between the US and Communist China for the duration of the crisis along with a permanent loss of taxpayer subsidized MFN trade status which has slowly been building Communist China into an economic powerhouse and major nuclear and military threat to the United States. He also could have announced withdrawal of US support for WTO membership for Commmunist China. He could have prohibited the sale of supercomputers to Communist China due to this incident.

Instead, let us review what Bush has done to reward the Communist Chinese for threatening our cities with nuclear incineration, arming the Taleban and other terrorist states perhaps including ChiCom help for the Al Queda 9-11 terrorists according to the book, Seeds of Fire, available from WorldNetDaily.com and arming these same terrorist states with the ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons technology with which to strike us in the future as ChiCom proxies. Bush has recently restored US-China military exchanges which disproportunately benefit the PLA and help them better strategize how to defeat the US military. He has championed permanent MFN trade status and WTO membership for Communist China. This permanent MFN trade status is facilitating the transfer of $100 billion a year in US-China trade dollars which Communist China is using to build itself into the best nuclear superpower enemy that US trade surplus dollars can buy. Bush has lifted the pitifully mild sanctions imposed on the PRC for shipping nuclear and missile technologies to their ally, Pakistan.

Bush has issued an executive order which allows the legal sale of US supercomputers which are 50-100 times as powerful as those sold by US companies with Clinton's permission during the Chinagate scandal. These same 600 Clinton permitted supercomputers have allowed the ChiComs to make their nuclear missiles aimed at US cities much more accurate according to GOP Rep. Chris Cox and given them more computing power than the entire Department of Defense according to Rep. Henry Hyde. Yet have we heard a peep from the hypocritical pro-Communist China Republicans in Congress about this outrage which is far worse than that perpetrated by Clinton's allowed sale fof 600 relatively low computing power "supercomputers" to Communist China? Nope! Just some mild protests from Frank Gaffney and other conservative 'superhawks'.

Finally, to add insult to injury, Bush has praised the Communist Chinese terrorists in Beijing for their alleged cooperation as a US strategic partner in the war against terrorism, despite the fact that the PRC may well have assisted the terrorist perpetrators of the 9-11 attacks!! So for you to bury your head in relation to the Bush record on appeasing Communist China in the sand and say Bush can do no wrong and is some kind of Ronald Reagan on foreign policy is just unbelievable. Again, I ask what is the difference between the Clinton-Gore appeasment policy of Communist China and the Bush one other than some as yet unkept promises to help Taiwan defend itself against a potential ChiCom attack?