China is a Terrorist nation?

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This morning, on 'This Week with....' (ABC News), Condelluca Rice, Bush's National Security Adviser, listed a detailed definition of what defines an 'Axis of Evil'. Immediately Cookie Roberts noted that China qualified on every point of that definition in spades. Why is China not an "Axis of Evil" country? Because we talk to them. What nonsense is this! This is how our presidential staff makes decisions? Arbitrarily! The reason for those decisions are about as sensible as calling "Mariguana the gateway drug" (everybody knows that if a gateway drug exists, then it is coffee or alcohol).

Those reasons are just to provide cover so that other extremists can say "good reasons exist" - IOW lie.

When do you see everyone, including both George's, argree on something. George Wills was most explicit when it noted it was wrong to tie terrorism with governments. The two are distinctly different by definition. Yes, even the conservative George Wills finds George Jr's "Axis of Evil" to be wrong headed.

George Jr promised to separate his war on terrorism from partisan politics - and yet he already violated that promise in his State of the Union message . How many more George Jr promises will die so quickly when convenient? Read my lips - no new taxes? It must be a family trend. George Jr recently violated another promise, in spirit, with that joke he called an environmental plan for the future. He is even trying to backpedal on his acknowledgment that Global Warming is a problem.


George Jr declared N Korea as an 'Axis of Terror' because it sells missiles to the world. An yet another 'equally as large', missile marketeer is China. But then, it gets even messier. Israel sold technology to China to make those Chinese missiles more accurate knowing full well why they were selling the technology. Those missiles, in turn were sold to Saudia Arabia. Do we then add Israel to the 'Axis of Terror' even though the product is in what Israel's current goverment calles a major enemy? Remember, Israel also violates human rights within its borders, as defined by the 'Axis of Terror' definition. Israel does it so often that it was declared a racist nation by a UN convention on Racism recently held in S Africa. Israel, according to loose interpretation, is also an 'Axis of Terror' nation.

Or do we look at the world without George Jr's simplistic viewpoint. It was an Israeli company that sold the technology without government approval? Ahh... but if true, if we separate actions of local mafias from the government, then Iran is not an "Axis of Terror" either. Iranian democratically elected government did not ships weapons to terrorists. It is the mullah, the extremist religious leaders, who ship weapons from Iran, in part, to subvert a democratically elected government that opposes those mullah. So George Jr plays into the hands of religious extremist leaders like Iran's mullah and Israel's Sharon? Or does George really prefer to attack of governments that oppose religious extremists. How convenient. American religious extermists also support Geroge Jr.

Everyway it is looked at, the "Axis of Evil" is not based upon any intelligent thinking. It was done without consulting any other nation - many of which were caught blindsided and are now suffering international relation problems with this President directlly because of that speech. Top of this list include S Korea. George Jr has soured relations with both N and S Korea - but then what else is new. He has done so everywhere in the world - except with a dichead Prime Minister.

Like Rice's contradictory statements, so to is George Jr's logic. This George Jr decision is as intelligent as Johnson's reasons for escalating the VietNam war, Nixon's reasons from invading Cambodia, and Reagan's reasons for mining all Atlantic and Pacific ports of Nicaragua. Fortunately, George Jr has not yet used military.

It would be one thing if the current President could come up with some consistent facts to support his reasonings. But George Jr reminds us of a computer expert who runs about declaring that more fans will fix the computer. IOW George Jr's statements appear to be the rhetoric of his right wing extremist advisors who only see facts that are convenient. No wonder Sec of State Powell is fighting a rear guard action to perserve the American integrity and credibility in international capitals. Remember - Powell has outrightly warned each of us that this governement could become a world enemy - unilaterally declare war on Iraq. Among American extremists, that stupidity is acceptable!

"Axis of Terror" really defines the logic being used in today's White House. What logic? 'Feelings' is the better word.