"Chinese arms threaten asia", where have we heard that before?

[Hubert Flottz]

Chinese Arms Threaten Asia, Rumsfeld Says

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SINGAPORE — Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said today that the rapid development of China's missile capabilities, air force and navy put Asia's military balance at risk and that the Pentagon believed Beijing's buildup had been far more extensive than its leaders had admitted.

In his most blunt assessment to date of the global implications of China's efforts to build a state-of-the-art arsenal, Rumsfeld warned that the expansion threatened not only the delicate balance between China and Taiwan, but the overall strategic equilibrium in a region increasingly vital to U.S. interests.


Speaking to Asian defense ministers at an annual security conference, the Defense chief revealed details about an upcoming Pentagon report on China, which has the world's third-largest military budget and the largest in Asia.

"China appears to be expanding its missile forces, allowing them to reach targets in many areas of the world, not just the Pacific region, while also expanding its missile capabilities here in the region," Rumsfeld said. "Since no nation threatens China, one must wonder: Why this growing investment?" More...

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-fg-rumsfeld4jun04,1,4658039.story?coll=la-headlines-frontpage

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Does Rumbo Really want to go bear hunting with a switch? And, would military action against any country in the region(North Korea)destabilize the entire chaotic overpopulated region? Whose side do ya think China would take in a war with North Korea? Whose side did China take last time America waged a war in the region?("Vietnam Police Action") Whose side was China on the time before that!("Korean Conflict")

The monkeys at the Pentagon are playing with the mother of all matches again! :nuke: Are the neocons nuts, crazy or what? Do we expect rose petals and dancing in the streets in Asia too?


US Population:
295,734,134 (July 2005 est.)

China Population:
1,306,313,812 (July 2005
est.)


China Military manpower
males age 18-49: 342,956,265 (2005 est.)

US Military manpower - availability:
males age 18-49: 67,742,879 (2005 est.)

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/us.html

AMERICA'S ARMS IN THE HANDS OF THESE IDIOTS RUNNING THE SHOW NOW, THREATENS THE ENTIRE PLANET!

[Hubert Flottz]

1. The bushistas have cried wolf so many times who believes them

any longer. Do we have to go through the whole "Mushroom Cloud" "Yellow Cake" shit again, every time the neocons decide whom to blow away next? Rumbo needs to just go ahead and launch every nuke we have at the countries the GOPers have wanted to destroy since Nixon, and sort out the details later! Why telegraph the nation's punches, just do it? We have forever to make up lies and fake reasons for waging wars, after the killing is done!