China airs rare public criticism of Bush Iraq policy

[justiceischeap]

President Bush should scrap his unilateral approach and respect religious diversity in his "war on terror" to resolve troubles in Iraq, a senior Chinese official said in comments published on Thursday.

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"How can you link anti-terrorism with a particular religion?" Ye asked in a commentary headlined "Bush should reflect deeply".

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"Unilateralism and terrorism breed each other, fight each other, but neither can overcome the other," he wrote. "Terrorism cheats people under the disguise of religion. Why should unilateralism hijack religion as well?

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You know it's bad when China is advising the US on religion...

[Rex]

1. That is a very good question!

How can just one religion own all the 'terrorism' in the world?

[Kiouni]

2. I was recently surprised to learn that

china has 55 minorities. They just might have some good ideas.

[CoffeeCat]

3. Spot on....

"You know it's bad when China is advising the US on religion..."

So true. China is now wrist-slapping the United States--on the world's stage--and giving our country advice on respecting
diversity. How low can this country sink?

China has developed strategic relationships with Russia and Iran--and there's also some interesting alliances
with China and African countries. It really appears that China is attempting to create sustainability without
the United States. Now, they're publicly chastising us.

This is really bad.

We used to be respected. We were held in high esteem because we DID respect religious diversity and
we were a moral people.

We are none of those things now. We're certainly not respected. China is letting us know that. It's only
a matter of time--before other countries feel comfortable enough expressing their disdain for us. It's only
a matter of time when these countries begin to pull the rug out from under us--toppling our economy and our
standing in the world.

Thanks Junior....you're doing a heckuvajob!

The man is a human wrecking ball!

[justiceischeap]

4. What gets me about religion in the United States

Is you hear people saw this country was founded on Christianity but yet I seem to recall from "history" classes that one of the reasons why the colonists came to America was to escape religious oppression. I wasn't aware that is was just their religion they were trying to keep from being oppressed.