Tell me again....why is Bush in Vietnam?

[kentuck]

Is he trying to work out some type of trade deal? Or is he just reminiscing about all his war adventures back when he was there fighting for our country? Or is he just trying to get his poll numbers up a little since nothing helps an American President like going on a foreign trip? When is he due to arrive back in the paradise called the Capitol?

[patrice]

1. Trade deals, probably.

[BeanCounting]

2. So he and Condi can spend a little "QUALITY" time alone?

:puke:

[HCE SuiGeneris]

7. LMFAO!! holy shit that's funny

[Flabbergasted]

3. Vietnam + Democracy = Iraq + Democracy?

[Richard Steele]

4. He's run out of MAJOR nations to embarrass the USA in front of...

...so he's PERSONALLY working down the list on page 2.

[liberal N proud]

5. Completing an agreement with the United States government he signed many years ago

This is his way of serving in Vietnam, no one can accuse him of not going to Vietnam now.

[madrchsod]

6. cause he has not pissed them off yet....

and true to form he did as soon as he opened his mouth. well it was about getting low cost cotton goods into the usa. check the labels on the clothing some will be from vietnam

[Rage for Order]

8. He figures better late than never?

Because he sure as hell didn't go 35 years ago

[jokerman93]

9. He's trying to build

He's trying to build a "coalition of the wiling" to invade North Korea. :sarcasm:

[Cleita]

10. Karma is a bitch.

She couldn't get him there when he was supposed to but now he has to go there when his presidency is about to explode. I know even a drugged out old idiot like him has got to feel "things ain't right".

[alittlelark]

11. He WAS going there to celebrate his (now defeated) bill

On the 14th of Nov. his trade bill w/ Vietnam was voted down. Now he's there just to evade the American Press


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,229158,00.html



WASHINGTON — Legislation to normalize trade relations with Vietnam was defeated Monday in the House of Representatives, four days before President George W. Bush is to make his first visit to the only country ever to defeat the United States in a major war.

The measure failed to win the necessary two-thirds majority it needed under a procedure House Republicans adopted to rush it through with limited debate. It received 228 votes in support — 32 short of what was needed. There were 161 votes against it.

The Bush administration was hoping to gain approval of the measure before Bush meets later this week with Vietnamese leaders in Hanoi.


Sorry for the FAUX link - best one I found.

[sutz12]

12. A new pair of Nikes.... nt

[pinkpops]

13. Glad you asked ...

I've been puzzled. I caught a clip of him stinding in a nice little park, talking about how we gotta stick it out in Iraq so the same thing doesn't happen again. And I says to myself, "what in the world was the Viet Nam war about, anyhow?"

I mean the US left, and everything seems to be OK anyway.

Could it be that PRIDE kept the US in Vietnam, just as it keeps us in Iraq?

[philosophie_en_rose]

14. He's running a little late.... for his national guard duty.

:bounce:

[dancingme]

15. Checking out the Hanoi Hilton to send Katrina victims

who still have not received their FEMA trailers.

[UTUSN]

16. To flaunt his shamelessness n/t

[Agnomen]

17. So he can say he's been

[sandrakae]

18. So he can say " I did so go to Vietnam".

[Ksec]

19. Trade deal

Its bad for everyone but the corporations and the wealthy.

Say NO to this trade deal.

[Beelzebud]

20. WTO

[Boo Boo]

21. He's there for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum

He was hoping to go there with Congress having passed a bill normalizing trade relations with Vietnam, but it was voted down. Makes old Bushie look pretty weak. He gets handed a resounding defeat by the American People, and then in spite of the embarrassment it would cause the President the Republican Congress handed him another defeat on trade.

So Bush showed up for an economic summit in Vietnam immediately after Congress rejected normalized trade with Vietnam. Pretty sure that blew their whole PR strategy.

AP via MSNBC:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15729782/

Financial Times:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/d2427aec-738d-11db-9bac-0000779e2340.html

[sweetheart]

22. to help us see it wrong

Say hello to viet cong,
they are laughing at that man,
bush help us to see it wrong,
hey the liar's got a band.

fifty five thousand smoked the bong,
away the cryer holds my hand,
bee 52's air wrong on viet kong,
agent orange ain't it grand.

Liberated from their fixated oppressors,
laughing at dummy's stuff suit stand,
titillated at the fall of their lessers,
kaptal's folly washed away in sand,
bushian petromen's dimwitted judgement,
alien dressers ill fitted fer gov'ment