I should add, the Vietnamese people are extremely excited and proud to be hosting the APEC conference and particularly to be hosting President Bush. There are about 3 million people in Hanoi who couldn't care less about their communist leadership, but will come out by the hundreds of thousands to try and catch a glimpse of the leader of the free world. It's too bad our news media will just gloss over the event.
I'm very proud about my nation. That is Vietnam is set to become the WTO's 150th member following a desicion by the General Council on 7 November 2006, and now at Hanoi capital, from 12th to 19th Nov, hosts the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ Meeting Week and the visiting of President W.Bush to Vietnam. Vietnam will improve in future."
I say good for the Vietnamese people! If they think the future will be brighter, good for them! What a shame that nations like Cuba and North Korea are not moving in this direction. What a shame that no matter how hard you try you will never find a Cuban or a North Korean online. They are kept in the dark...decades behind the rest of the world. And how nice to have a foreignor refer to our leader with the respect of calling him President and not "Mr." or worse like you hear coming from Canada and Europe these days.