well by gaully gee whiz--who'da thunk it

<>Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has expressed concern over China's military buildup, saying it could threaten the security balance in Asia. Mr. Rumsfeld spoke at a meeting of Asian and Western defense ministers in Singapore. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told a gathering of defense ministers from 21 nations that China now has the third-largest military budget in the world and the largest in Asia. And he said China appears to be expanding its missile forces, allowing them to target many parts of the world. "Since no nation threatens China, one must wonder why this growing investment, why these continuing large and expensive arms purchases, why this continuing robust deployment?" he said.

This is so fatalistically disingenuous it begs the question: "who the fuck is he talking to??" Well, actually everyone else in the world knows the answer. He is saying this for the BushCo constituency in the US and for their supporters the amerikan-christo taliban. China knows all too well who threatens here. We have invaded on false pretenses two nations, through which the US can control the flow and price of oil. We expand our total domination in the MIdEast and suggest that China shouldn't think we are a major global threat to their future?? China is the fastest growing fossil fuel energy consumer on the planet. They have four times the population of the US and don't care one iota about the overall costs to anyone else's environment. China is without question a genuine real superpower, more economically stable than the US, with a massively larger military population equipped with automatic small arms. To sufficiently nuke China into some form of total submission would require the complete destruction of the earth; China knows this, and knows that the US is completely vulnerable to economic as well as physical threats.

RiceRummy are posturing to support Taiwan and Japan in hopes of framing the argument in such a way to avoid the US citizens from paying attention to our efforts to militarily control the rest of the Gulf, Sudan's access to African oil, and South America. We aren't fighting cocaine in Colombia people; we are there to invade Venezuela if need be in order to control the 40% of the foreign oil that the US uses. But will you hear any of this after this news cycle. NO, not one shred of it.