Friday 4th of July 2008
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chinese torture .....

While its propaganda machine might be sounding a little shrill lately, China's foreign policy is hitting all the right notes.  

In the past few weeks, President Hu Jintao has met twice with leading politicians from Taiwan following the election of Ma Ying-jeou. First Hu met with VP-elect Vincent Siew and then with KMT bigwig Lien Chan.  

There's a good possibility that the two sides will move a lot closer -- setting up direct flights and freight services -- once Ma takes power on May 20 and Taiwan's both incompetent and ideologically rigid president, Chen Shui-bian, leaves.  

Good for China and Taiwan. 

What's more, last week, Hu spent five days in Japan using 'smile' diplomacy with China's Asian nemesis.  

By all accounts, it was a pretty successful trip, a stark contrast to complete disaster that occurred when Hu's predecessor Jiang Zemin visited Japan in 1998 and gave a screaming lecture about history.  

The lecture played well in China but not anywhere else. China and Japan have reason to buddy up.  

Last year, China replaced the US as Japan's biggest export market - a trend that isn't going to change.


the idiot confused GOP with GOD...

Bush: God told me to invade Iraq

President George Bush has claimed he was told by God to invade Iraq and attack Osama bin Laden's stronghold of Afghanistan as part of a divine mission to bring peace to the Middle East, security for Israel, and a state for the Palestinians.

The President made the assertion during his first meeting with Palestinian leaders in June 2003, according to a BBC series which will be broadcast this month.

The revelation comes after Mr Bush launched an impassioned attack yesterday in Washington on Islamic militants, likening their ideology to that of Communism, and accusing them of seeking to "enslave whole nations" and set up a radical Islamic empire "that spans from Spain to Indonesia".

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Gus: Although this may be be new to The Independent, the silly notion that god told Bushot to invade Iraq has been a running feature on this site for a long time. What a crock, what an escape route for a mediocre routing. Go and visit this Mishun accumplished cartoon as well... see toon at top too.

This BBC thingy has been on the cutting room floor for more than 3 years now and it's about time it was fully revived to show how inept and silly our bushot of the day is... Now in the middle of the east, celebrating El Nakbar with the Israelis, Bushot is a bit like a common Pom who celebrates Waterloo, by going to the public gents, while the other side go to the cemetery.