I remember when we had to fight the Communists over there so we didn't have to fight them over here

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/HK16Ae01.html

Bush strikes a 'grand bargain' with Vietnam

When US President George W Bush arrives in Vietnam on Friday for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, he'll be looking to burnish his foreign-policy credentials after last week's bruising congressional election defeat, which was widely viewed as a referendum on his government's ill-fated invasion of Iraq.

But any pretensions that Bush may make toward policy success in Vietnam should be viewed just as incredulously as his administration's various other spurious declared victories for democracy in the Middle East.

The former US war adversary and now emerging economic partner, Vietnam's ruling Communist Party, will roll out the red carpet for Bush. With US support, Vietnam is poised in early 2007 to join the World Trade Organization (WTO), an important recognition of the country's successful 20-year transition from a command to a market-based economy.

[ComerPerro]

1. You know what angers me most about that rhetoric, the whole

"we have to fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here" talking point?

Who the fuck is we?

Who do Repigs think they are fooling when they say "we". Anyone with half a clue knows that Republicans don't go to war, and don't make sacrifices.

So, given that, what they are really saying is "We send others to fight over there so we don't have to see it"

[4morewars]

2. The Vietnamese will live to regret this.

Did they forget what happened the last time the USA "helped" them ?

[valerief]

3. Terrrrrrrrrrrrrrrism is the new Communism. nt