[Edmund Burke]

Why doesn't Bush call for free elections in China? Every time he discusses China, he should call for free elections.

[Quix]

There's a lot like that we could do.

But actually, many in the Communist party would like free elections up to a point. They want to insure that they are so loved and respected that they would always be voted in on top. Too many people remember too much to be that thrilled with the Party leadership.

[tallhappy]

Why doesn't Bush call for free elections in China? Every time he discusses China, he should call for free elections.

Exactly.

President Bush has undercut his own doctrines in this visit and in his statement.

[fogarty]

Maybe because Bush is a communist sympathizer. Why else would he be inviting a brutal dictator to his ranch this past week and not mention a single thing about Chinese torture and imprisonment of Christians or their murderous forced abortions?

Bush is selling out for $$$. I wonder which dicatator he's going to invite to his ranch next. Maybe invite Mugabe or Castro into his ranch for barbecue next weekend?

[Theodore R.]

What good are free elections in China if the Chinese people are as dense as the Americans in choosing leaders! I guess it just makes good copy to call for "free elections." Heck, we don't have free elections in St. Louis, much less China, or on SD Indian reservations, we have recently learned.

[ApesForEvolution]

That's what bugs me.

Cuba, bad. China, ok.

Iraq, bad. Iran, ok.

What's the damn differences from a point of principle?

Because we can rattle-sabre weak sisters and not the more serious players?
Why isn't Red China, sworn to whip us, an axis of evil, but N. Korea is? What difference is the threat?

Taiwan is going to vote on this someday in the not so distant future. Bush had better stand for our friends that love freedom or we will become weaker as a nation.