WHY DID BUSH APOLOGIZE FOR THE 2ND TlME TO CHINA?
442007
He has apologized TWICE to China but NOT ONCE to the American people for his constant buffoonery and sheer incompetence, now that's the pinnacle of arrogance and entitlement that we are used to seeing in the republican party. From a global perspective he should apologize for his crimes against humanity.
727826
Absolutely Bush owes the Troops an explanation and an apology. With Bush firing Rumsfeld right after the election, and not before the election, even makes it more viable for him to do so...What a looser Dumbya is. How compassionate is the moral values of the Neocons here?
441659
Chinese President is a gentleman.\nPlease advise him to beware of Bush. \nOne in hand is better than two "with" Bush.\nCan he wait for the next president?
574383
Miss, I am terribly sorry about what the USA did to your country. I was there. What we did was inexcusable. Saying I was ordered to do it is pretty lame. Your country, what I saw of it, was beautiful. The people I met and meet now are resourceful and have been pretty smart. I know the US trades with you now. Take care of your people. Be careful in dealing with the Western world. Do not let the multinationals strip your resources away.
631455
ha ha! I'm with you on that one. It is Dubya's fault, who the f*ck voted him into office not once but twice?!?! \n\nGod have mercy on us all....
444506
It is so funny when people blaming Bush for EVERYTHING. What's next? houses prices are too high...it's Bush, American cars are unreliable...it's Bush, or maybe...people who live in communist regimes have no rights...it's Bush, women and little girls in Vietnam are kidnapped and sold to Cambodia, Hongkong, Thailand for sex slaves everyday...it's Bush. or check this out...you don't feel good today...IT"S BUSH TOO! yeah, why not? I saw and heard people blamed Bush for hurricane Katrina, yeah they said it's because of Bush that hurricane happened!!! so why not blame your President for those? \nI'm sorry to say but blaming President Bush for gas price now is stupid.the main sources of oil are from the Mid-East, those countries there are unstable and we don't control oil industries, the OPEC does. 60% of gas we use everyday here in the States are imported, so if those countries shake up then gas price here start to jump and it will jump more in the near future. Just look at the situation in the Mid-East right now and make your best judgememts.\nGo ahead, blame your president for whatever you want. It's a free country. Well, I do not blame the President for that. I'm an immigrant who just got my US citizenship and i am very proud of it. I'm just alittle sad to know that American are not united, we are so devided that our enemies are taking advantage of it against us. Please look around with a more open mind.\nI hope I did not offend anyone here. I just say what I think.
307164
Of course it is his fault... he is an oil tycoon! Oil companies and oil producing nations are benefiting from this increase and Mr. Bush is personally a close friend of many oil producing countries and oil companies. The Democrats have blocked oil exploration in the US because it is too expensive to drill in the USA due to the nature of the land.. even with today's technology.. and that's why American companies prefer to drill in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Libya and others. If you think it is cheaper to get oil from the ground beneath the USA then the government would've done that 200 years ago. It is too simple (why purchase something from someone if you can produce it cheaper).\nThen someone is talking about supply and demand, my dear nothing has changed in the world for it to demand that much of oil except that the US army needs and consumes lots of oil to operate... and oil producing nations –which Mr. Bush has close ties with- have increased their productions to please Mr. Bush and his friends.. some countries went to their daily max and some are considering building more refineries. They are taking your money and they are very happy with that.\nHere is a headline for you: USATODAY.com - Big oil tanks up: Exxon's profit nears $10B.\n\nYou should thank the democrats for their outstanding job... they don't want you to pay more! The republicans are good in hypnotizing people and making them believe in what they want them to believe in. Simply they are a group of magicians but not politicians. I'm sad to say that they are ruining and screwing up a great nation.
435539
Because of China's objections.
109101
I would venture to guess they did not want a show down with the Soviet Union or China at the time. The Gulf of Tonkin incident was enough to justify escalating the war without a declaration.  You would think that sending 50,000 amercian boys and soldier girls to their deaths would've justified a declaration of war, but who am i to raise that argument.
681658
The U.S. (so the politicians believe) cannot afford NOT to be friendly to China - a huge emerging market, producers of low-cost consumer products, etc.  So even though the Chinese are just as anti-democratic as the Cubans, even though the Chinese undoubtedly have a more horrific human rights record than Castro's Cuba, even though they meddle and interfere with Bush's interests in Central Asia, we give them a pass because we need China as much as China needs us.\n\nCuba, on the other hand, has very little to offer economically.  So we can afford to play the bully, to assert our Monroe Doctrine dominance over the hemisphere and freeze out the Cubans in the hopes that Castro (or, more likely, the guy who comes after him) will fall from power and we can go back to making Cuba the pro-U.S. cheap-sugar-and-smokes satellite that it was for decades.
964541
This is typically how a shameless coward like clinton fights a war.  From about fifty miles away.  The number of cruise missiles was probably less than a dozen, but even with that he caused an international incident and damn near WWIII.  It seems, Mr Genius and his intel group decided to target a building that his intel people said was one thing, when in fact it was the new Chinese Embassy!  Well the building went down, at least one Chinese diplomatic worker was killed, and the Chinese were madder than hell!  Naturally, slick willie climbed under the desk until the heat was off.  See, that under the desk routine of his, served more than one purpose.\n\nThis, I fear is the management style we can expect from the left.  As the saying goes, "Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it".\n\nTo the genius TOM, below.  I know it's no longer important that over 10,000 Albanians died as the serbs did their repeat of Bosnia, only because that coward clinton overruled everyone about putting boots on the ground.
394389
I think our relationship with China is on even keel....but bordering on adversarial unfortunately.\n\nTheir military build up is on going and for what?  Who are they getting ready to fight?  Probably no one....but we are in debt to the Chinese in the billions of dollars.  Eventually we will have to concede that they are on our tier of dominance.\n\nI agree with a previous poster's analysis in that they will be the superpower on one....it may not be real soon, but it will be one day.\n\nThis is the thing.  Small thing.  All they have do is....drumroll please.........convert to some form of democracy.  That's all.  Nothing major.  They can do that in a few weeks.  \n\nSeriously.....Communism does not work.  And look at what America is trying to do.  Bush was over there wanting China is ease up on religious tolerance....along with a few other things.  But see....we don't really want them to have a democratic system....we want them to have widespread, capitalistic tendency.....democracy-styled freedoms.  There is a massive difference.\n\nWe don't want a mega copy of us.....we are Miller, or Budweiser.  We want them to be Zima.
1083582
This guy's actually got a point. I'm not so sure on the specifics of any yahoo involvement, but I do know for certain that the Chinese government is very oppressive to anyone who questions its motives or policies. Instances may have tailed off over recent years, but beatings and torture are still a regular part of protocol there. America simply chooses to ignore it because we're more concerned with preserving our good economic relations with China, even though a lot of the cheap labor we outsource there is indeed done by slaves. We really should wake up and start seeing the truth.
353464
She was taken out and charged with disorderly conduct. The charges will probably be dropped. I think Bush was secretly pleased for Hu Jintao to be embarrassed like that.
869760
Bush can't run a 3rd time, he's a lame duck.\n\nGood luck with your new goat milking machine.
434689
He's trying to 'mend the fence' so to speak.  Sino-American relations are a bit tense right now over the trade deficit and their currency policies, so I think this is China's way of sending a good-will tour to the US.
341644
His behavior cannot be justified as it is based in greed. Not much is made of the memo here in the states by the so called liberal press. He was looking to go to war with Iraq any way he could but his decision is immersed in the oil fields not the people. He don't care about our people, why would he care about them.