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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DavesM who wrote (255034)5/15/2002 12:38:31 AM
From: DMaA  Respond to of 769670
 
Actually, the message didn't come from the President but from the Ambassador. That is significant to the maniacally hierarchical Chinese.

And the Ambassador didn't apologize for landing without permission. He said he was sorry the EMERGANCY landing happened without permission. Permission any decent country would have given without a second thought. We spit in their face and they still gave our plane and pilots back.

As I remember, President Bush apologized for the plane landed in Chinese territory without permission.



To: DavesM who wrote (255034)5/15/2002 8:10:40 AM
From: rich4eagle  Respond to of 769670
 
I agree with what you said Dave, except that as you know the flights were conducted in more than international waters. Of course EP-3E aircraft have conducted covert operations for decades and flights have been conducted for 50 years including those directly over foreign airspace. My point was that "first" Bush rattled the sabre and then a few days later got smart and apologized for the incident. Thus the 180 which was a good move on his part.


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