Dub's daddy (aka Poppy) served as Ambassador to the People's Republic of China as well as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Now, we have Poppy's feckless son in China. Dub is ducking the heat in the kitchen back in DC (and anywhere else there is not a captive military audience). Perhaps Dub can spend the next 3 years traveling from one tourist spot to another. We would be the better for it. If this is (fair & balanced) longing, so be it.
[x The Epoch Times]
Seven Questions for President Bush on his Visit to China
By Michael Scroccaro
Special to The Epoch Times Nov 15, 2005
Notice to Reporters: full permission has been granted by The Epoch Times and the author to pose any question contained herein to the President of the United States
1) Mr. President, it has been announced that, during your trip to China, you will be publicly calling on the Chinese government to crack down on the theft of American pop music and Hollywood movie discs. Will you also be publicly calling on China to stop stealing U.S. military secrets, such as electromagnetic pulse weapon schematics, details about American attack submarines, and Aegis battle management systems?
2) Mr. President, according to a U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission report, China has failed to play its role in helping contain the North Korean threat and has, in fact, continued to trade with, assist and empower North Korea. In light of China’s failure to live up to its commitment, will you be announcing a new North Korean policy that does not include, or rely upon, China?
3) Mr. President, according to your own State Department, the Chinese communist government detains between 250,000 and 310,000 human beings in “reeducation-through-labor” camps, many without charge and none subject to judicial review. Your State Department also points to China’s ongoing practice of extrajudicial killings, its lack of due process that “was particularly egregious in death penalty cases,” and “violence against women, including imposition of a coercive birth limitation policy that resulted in instances of forced abortion and forced sterilization.” Mr. President, do you think it’s appropriate for the President of the United States to visit with communist leaders who treat their people in such a manner?
4) Mr. President, in your September 21, 2001 address to Congress and to the nation, you said, “From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime.” Since China is the world’s largest supplier of nuclear weapon technology to “axis of evil” nations North Korea and Iran, do you consider China to be a “hostile regime” and, if not, why the exception for the world’s single largest violator of your doctrine?
5) Mr. President, in describing the war on terrorism on November 11, 2005 you said; “Like the ideology of communism, our new enemy pursues totalitarian aims…they have banned books, and desecrated historical monuments…They seek to end dissent in every form, to control every aspect of life, to rule the soul itself.” If behaving like communist dictators is justification for war in other countries, then how can you dine with China’s communist leaders, the world’s most longstanding practitioner of such behavior?
6) Mr. President, on October 31, 2004 in Miami, you addressed America’s trade embargo with Cuba, saying: “We will not rest—we will not rest. We will keep the pressure on until the Cuban people enjoy the same freedoms in Havana they receive here in America. I strongly believe the people of Cuba should be free from the tyrant. I believe—I believe that everybody yearns to be free.” Mr. President, do you believe that the people of China also yearn to be free from their tyrants and, if so, why does the U.S. have a trade policy that enriches and empowers China’s communist tyrants, but one that starves and weakens Cuba’s communist tyrant?
7) Mr. President, in four separate speeches in the past month, you espoused America’s “belief in self-determination, and the rule of law, and religious freedom, and equal rights for women—beliefs that are right and true in every land and in every culture.” When you said that self-determination is “right and true in every land and in every culture,” did you also mean Taiwan? If not, why?
Michael Scroccaro is the Director of Sterling Communication, a public relations and marketing firm specializing in political strategy, messaging and third-party advocacy. Michael can be reached at michael@sterling-communication.com
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