World Torture Tour

[nemo]

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_http://www.richardneville.com
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The recent decision by the United States to drop China from its annual list of top ten of human rights
abusers took the world by surprise. What is the motive? For one delirious moment I thought the Bush Administration had
confronted its own foul deeds and was about to nominate itself as a platinum abuser. Up there with Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan,
its allies. This didn’t happen. Then I suspected the act of “forgiving” China was a way of taking the heat off itself. “You might think
we’ve become a nation of torturers and baby killers”, it was signalling to the world, “but compared to the Top Ten Rights Abusers,
virgins”. As China no longer ranks among the worst, and as we’re kinder than them, it follows that America is still God’s own paradise.
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[Rabelais]

The recent decision by the United States to drop China from its annual list of top ten of human rights
abusers took the world by surprise. What is the motive?

That's a slow pitch softball question. US $1.4 trillion sitting in the reserves of the Chinese treasury plays a part of the answer. A big bucket of fiat kerosene tipping perilously over the inflationary fire that is the US dollar might have something to do with the Bushie's attempts to mollify them.

Another aspect might tie in closely with Cheney's current world tour to whip up support for bombing Iran, for Israel, before the November elections. The Chinese are going to be a tough sell on that one, given their Iranian contracts for future production of oil and gas that China needs to fuel its industrial growth.

Making nice with China seems critical at this point in the current psychopathic state of things... no matter how ludicrous the gestures seem. "Hey, we'll even throw in Tibet."