'China power growing as Bush ignores Asia'

[OhioChick]

Source: Times of India

3 Sep 2007
SYDNEY: US President George W Bush is so preoccupied with Iraq he is neglecting Asia and allowing China to take a greater leadership role, a former senior US official said in remarks published on Monday.

"In every measure, China is making real hay right throughout Asia," Richard Armitage, Bush's former deputy secretary of state told The Australian newspaper in an interview.

"Right now, we're just so preoccupied with Iraq that we're ignoring Asia totally."

Bush is cutting short his attendance at a major Asia-Pacific summit in Sydney this weekend to return to Washington in time for reports to Congress on progress in Iraq by top US general David Petraeus.

Armitage also criticised Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice for skipping two out of three annual meetings which bring the US together with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).



Read more: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/China_growing_as_US_ignores_Asia/articleshow/2333726.cms

[rAVES]

1. QUICK! Start a war!!1!!1111!

:eyes:

[kenny blankenship]

2. He ain't ignorin' Asia, he's invadin' Asia!

And if those Chinese want our oil, they're gonna hafta crawl over here and beg for it.
That's the theory, anyways...

[Odin2005]

6. "Never get involved in a land war in Asia"

A remark by Eisenhower IIRC.

[Zorra]

3. Armitage is one of the PNAC fascists that got us into Iraq. n/t

[bemildred]

4. Another rat looking to jump ship.

No honor among thieves.

[maseman]

5. I thought Armitage was a friend of da family

I gues sthey pissed him off also. Did I miss something with him?

[onewholaughsatfools]

7. this is silly,

what is making china powerful is America, everytime you purchase a product made in China, you support them to kill you later... It's not a bush issue it's a Wal-mart issue

[Triana]

8. Proper Headline: "US Quickly Becoming Third World Nation" (n/t)

[Orsino]

9. So?

He couldn't run a baseball team, an oil company or the Republic of Texas. He sure as hell can't run the Yew-nited States. What the hell does anyone expect him to be able to do about China?

How can we get him to ignore America, as well?

[gratuitous]

10. Bush ignores Asia

So pray tell, what does occupy the imperial mind of George W. Bush. Because I sure haven't seen any evidence that much of anything really rivets his attention. Oh wait; he was quoted over the weekend about his post-presidential prospects for giving speeches and being lavished with money to refill the old coffers. So there's that, I suppose.