In his closest-ever encounter with danger, Preznit Yellow Stripe hosted the Prime Minister of Vietnam. Who I am sure refrained from any Vietnam/Iraq analogies, after all, he's a diplomat not a John Bolton. The Vietnamese Premier bought four Boeing 787's for their state airline, met with Bill Gates, is going to ring the bell on the NYSE and had a word for Preznit Fraidy Pants:
"We have a population of 80 million people, which means a huge market for American businesses," Khai said.
Off the record Premier Khai assured Preznit American AWOL that is was safe for him to go to Vietnam now, that the war had been over for 30 years.
So there's always that, now the Spin Machine can pack the 1st Lieutenant Codpiece Commando off to Ho Chi Minh City with a Flight Jacket and supply of airsickness pills and then claim that he really went to 'Nam. Peggy Noonan will have her first orgasm since dreaming of St Ronnies shoes.
President Bush, speaking after an historic meeting with Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai at the White House today, announced he will visit Vietnam in 2006 on the invitation of the communist leader.
So now he's gonna get that trip to 'Nam. My bet: he'll make a trip to Cam Ranh Bay where there will be a carrier battlegroup in-port with lots of happy, smiling sailors to give him his VN military photo-op.
I don't want to know anything about Our Lady of the Dolphins...
posted by Jo Fish on 06.21.05 at 11:27 AM
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I'm sure he will completely embarrass this country when he does visit Vietnam. But when he gets back he can puff out his chest and assure his followers, "I've been to Nam." Then the Swift Boat Liars can make a documentary outlining his valor "in-country". Geeze, these asshats wear me out.
posted by: Lowell on 06.21.05 at 11:57 AM [permalink]
Ya know, I'd give anything for a photo of him in the same seat where Hanoi Jane sat a third of century ago, wearing the same cute little helmet. With a good mixed crowd of Republican toadies and grinning Vietnamese around him. Even Rove, Bartlett & McClellan would have to earn their pay to explain that one away.
But at the end of the day, this no-guts rich boy has no business in a place where real American warriors served and were sacrificed for the pride & greed of an earlier generation of no-guts rich boys. This proposed visit is an affront to every one who served there.
posted by: Mike on 06.21.05 at 12:47 PM [permalink]
we could hope they discussed the growing
number of human Avian flu cases the Vietnamese have.
And ,perhaps a plan to deal with a possible
pandemic.
probably too much to hope for from this administration.
posted by: payne on 06.21.05 at 03:41 PM [permalink]
