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To: longnshort who wrote (332071)	4/6/2007 5:19:32 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571401

Then so did Newt... New York Times, March 31, 1997 -- reporting on a trip to China by House Speaker Newt Gingrich, one week after Vice President Al Gore's trip: Speaking with startling bluntness on an issue so delicate that diplomats have tiptoed around it for years, Newt Gingrich said today that he had warned China's top leaders that the United States would intervene militarily if Taiwan was attacked. As he left for Tokyo after a three-day trip to China, Mr. Gingrich said he had made it absolutely clear how the United States would respond if such a military conflict arose. Referring to his meetings with China's leaders, Mr. Gingrich said: ''I said firmly, 'We want you to understand, we will defend Taiwan. Period.'" He also said, ''I think that they are more aware now that we would defend Taiwan if it were militarily attacked.'' Mr. Gingrich, the Speaker of the House, delivered his message, among the most forceful ever given about Taiwan by a visiting United States official, to Wang Daohan, China's chief representative in talks with Taiwan. Mr. Gingrich said he had given the same message to President Jiang Zemin and Prime Minister Li Peng in Beijing last week. Chinese leaders offered no public response to Mr. Gingrich today. But on Friday, Mr. Jiang urged him to treat the Taiwan issue with care. . . . Asked about Mr. Gingrich's statements, a Clinton Administration official in Washington said Mr. Gingrich had received briefings about American policy toward China, but that Mr. Gingrich ''was speaking for himself'' in his conversations with Chinese leaders. The White House issued a statement saying that the policy of the United States was to ''meet its obligation under the Taiwan Relations Act, including the maintenance of an adequate self-defense for Taiwan,'' and that the Administration would maintain its ''one-China policy, the fundamental bedrock of which is that both parties peacefully address the Taiwan issue. . . ." In an interview on Friday, Mr. Gingrich said he had spoken with Mr. Clinton, and with Mr. Gore on several occasions, to make sure that their messages to Beijing dovetailed. At the time, he did not mention his message on Taiwan.

To: longnshort who wrote (332071)	4/6/2007 6:14:03 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571401

Really? That's interesting. What are they accusing her of, treason? If we accuse her of treason, then we'd better go all the way back to 9/11 and ask Bush why he let Saudi planes fly out of the US when all other planes were ordered to land immediately and no other planes were allowed to enter or leave US airspace. For that matter, we should ask questions about the billions of dollars US taxpayers have squandered in Iraq based on clearly misleading evidence about WMD in Iraq. Doesn't that qualify as treason? Or what about all the no-bid contract Haliburton has raked in the profits on based solely on their connection to Cheney? Isn't that graft, if not treason? Or what about outing that CIA agent just to send a message. That strikes me as treason, plain and simple. Look, I don't like Pelosi and I think she's ultra-liberal, but Bush and Cheney better be careful to do some introspection before they start talking about Pelosi misbehaving or engaging in treason by talking to Syria.