Posted on 02/25/2009 7:41:34 PM PST by Shellybenoit
My friend, Brian, calls our President, "Mao-bama," and that's lookin' more and more correct for a number of reasons--some of 'em literal.
Barack Obama's choice of Chas Freeman, Jr.--a supporter of anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and pro-Chinese Communist sentiment--as head of the National Intelligence Council should disturb all Americans.
On the massacre at Tiananmen Square in 1989, Mr. Freeman unabashedly sides with the Chinese government, a remarkable position for an appointee of an administration that has pledged to advance the cause of human rights. Mr. Freeman has been a participant in ChinaSec, a confidential Internet discussion group of China specialists. A copy of one of his postings was provided to me by a former member. "The truly unforgivable mistake of the Chinese authorities," he wrote there in 2006, "was the failure to intervene on a timely basis to nip the demonstrations in the bud." Moreover, "the Politburo's response to the mob scene at 'Tiananmen' stands as a monument to overly cautious behavior on the part of the leadership, not as an example of rash action."....
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