WTF Is It Now?!?

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The Coward of Crawford's kowtow
"Yesterday President Bush essentially placed the United States on the side of the dictators who promise war, rather than the democrats whose threat is a ballot box. His gift to visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao was to condemn 'the comments and actions made by the leader of Taiwan' while ignoring the sanguinary rhetoric of the man standing next to him. Mr. Bush had his reasons for doing so -- above all to avoid one more foreign policy crisis during an election year. But in avoiding a headache for himself, he demonstrated again how malleable is his commitment to the defense of freedom as a guiding principle of U.S. policy." - - from an editorial in the WaPo.

US experts greet Bush's comments with shock
American legal experts described George W. Bush's concession to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao yesterday as "disgusting."

President of International League for Human Rights Scott Horton said that he was "shocked" to hear Bush's remarks and he believed Bush did not speak for the majority of the American people whom past surveys have shown to support Taiwan's self-determination and referendum rights.

"I don't think the Bush administration and its senior foreign policy advisors care even a second about the referendum issue in Taiwan. It's not important to them. What is important to them now is to bring China along as a collaborator in the North Korea talks."

Conservatives 'appalled' by Bush's anti-democracy move on Taiwan
"To conservatives, it was a shocking scene. Bush sat chatting chummily in the Oval Office on Tuesday with the premier of communist China and harshly rebuked the democratically elected leader of the United States' old friend and ally, Taiwan. 'The only word I can use is 'appalled'," said John Tkacik, a China specialist at the conservative Heritage Foundation and a staunch administration supporter. Behind the jarring imagery, however, was a simple message. The Bush administration believes that it cannot afford a political crisis that could draw the United States into a war over Taiwan while it has its hands more than full with Iraq, Afghanistan and North Korea [as well as the 2004 campaign]."