Bush to meet with President Nguyen Minh Triet

Oh, to be a fly on the wall for this:

Nguyen Minh Triet, the first president to visit Washington since the Vietnam War, said his government was working hard to smooth out difficulties that some U.S. companies have experienced while doing business in the communist-led country. He is to meet Friday with President Bush at the White House.

Vietnam's president calls for more U.S. investment ahead of talks with U.S. lawmakers

Mr. 'Bring It On' is going to handle one of the most significant diplomatic situations in years.

I hope Bush is well drugged with plenty of handlers for this. Some of the things I am fully expecting Bush to say:

"We'll recognize your rising economic influence as soon as you get a handle on the insurgent situation"

"I will trade nuclear information for rice."

"Now that your country is democratized the U.S. should help ya with business trade. The first thing is not to have them sweat shops. What we do here is have immigrants. They work for a Freedom chance."

"Can you talk to Jalal Talabani for me? He doesn't do so good as you."

"If you send some troops over to Iraq, I will give you nuclear information"

"I am a leader of a country too. It's big a country with lots of diversification, and that accounts for the all the different opinions people say about me."

"Im thinking a one party system is a fine form of government. But what you need to do is change the name to Democracy."

"Here in America, we have barbecues. But what we can do is slap a dog on the barbie for you. That is what is called diplomacy. We're good at that here."

"Ah heck. I'll just give you nuclear information."

•  When did we get so friendly

  with the commies? I thought Bush and the neocons (like Richard Perle) were just carrying out the logical next step of the Truman Doctrine to combat Communism (the boogeyman of yesterday, which has become the terrorist boogeyman of today). Hence why are we alienating our capitalist (and democratic) allies in Europe while comfying up to dictatorial and not-so-capitalist regimes in China, Russia, Vietnam...?

  Yeah, I know the real answer. But what's the official line?

  by Nathaniel Ament Stone on Thu Jun 21, 2007 at 05:00:15 PM PDT

  •  tho you know the answer

    the totalitarian governments are good for U.S. corporations and the 'free trade' agreements

    by Krush on Thu Jun 21, 2007 at 05:17:46 PM PDT

    •  cheeeep labor!

      and cheeeep shrimp and cheeeep catfish!

      Totalitarian regimes are natural publican allies! Unless of course they're Muslim totalitarian regimes that won't give their oil away to American oilcos.

      by dougymi on Thu Jun 21, 2007 at 05:25:58 PM PDT

  •  When they started buying things from us.

    Or propping up our pathetic economy at the risk of our own sovereinity.  We talk to them, but hate Cuba, because Castro remains isolationist.  If he owned part of our country we'd have cruise ships docking in Gitmo.

    by rainmanjr on Thu Jun 21, 2007 at 07:54:09 PM PDT

•  Hey Ngu....( I call him Ngu)

  would you mind if we just shook hands and took a coupla pictures?  I don't understand the English language any better than you do, so we'd just be moving our lips anyway.  I'll have my speech guys put something together for the media.

  by nupstateny on Thu Jun 21, 2007 at 05:02:52 PM PDT

  •  hey

    Dubya might even grab him and give him a noogie....

    by route66 on Thu Jun 21, 2007 at 06:19:04 PM PDT

•  re

  Bush: DUde!!! I like totally dodged your war...!!

  by cookiesandmilk on Thu Jun 21, 2007 at 05:10:51 PM PDT

•  Will Bush include this guy in the meeting?

  http://infomercial.tvheaven.com/...

  http://en.wikipedia.org/...

  A career spent cheating people by pandering to base instincts, culminating in high stakes gambling with the ill-gotten spoils.

  Dumbya's kind of guy.

  Tommy showed Dumbya's handlers how it's done, including the "supporters" in the background.  However, in Dumbya's videos it's troops that are held hostage.  While the boob does the talking.

  by catzilla on Thu Jun 21, 2007 at 05:54:12 PM PDT

•  58,000 Died

  so that we can exploit cheap commie labor in 'Nam. Go figure.

  by edg on Thu Jun 21, 2007 at 06:22:57 PM PDT

  •  Exactly my point about the futility.

    People keep dying for these ideas about our country.  Our country is so full of shit I wouldn't dedicate my piss to it.  It's no different than any other country in that regard. 58,000 then for nothing.  3500 now for nothing.  How many will die for this bullshit in the next one?    

    by rainmanjr on Thu Jun 21, 2007 at 07:51:38 PM PDT

  •  thats what you call turning lemonaide stands

    into cold hard cash

    by Krush on Thu Jun 21, 2007 at 08:27:31 PM PDT

•  Another facist hug fest

  Why is it we treat Cuba like shit, and embrace the China and Vietnam. The desire to withold any progress in Havana is only to insure Wall Street/ Miami will walk in and take over when Castro finally is gone. Till then it is our job to insure Cuban population suffers as much as possible while we embrace Communist China and Vietnam.

  When can we impeach these assholes?

  by dgone36 on Thu Jun 21, 2007 at 07:27:37 PM PDT

•  Nice job, as always, Krush.

  But it's nucular.  Also, diversification is too big a word for him.  Shorten that to "with lots of diversity."

  by rainmanjr on Thu Jun 21, 2007 at 07:56:39 PM PDT

  •  as always, eh

    you are easy to entertain!

    by Krush on Thu Jun 21, 2007 at 09:52:18 PM PDT

    •  Awww, I'm just easy. n/t

      by rainmanjr on Fri Jun 22, 2007 at 06:54:33 AM PDT

•  They sure didn't protest Bush's visit last fall

  But I did.  Drove my students crazy!

  Y'all heard all about Albania, but that was nothing.  They lined Nam Ky Khoi Nghia on both sides of the street for over two hours waiting for him!  

  The other foreign teachers and I, we couldn't begin to fathom why they were so happy...

  by Beastmouth on Fri Jun 22, 2007 at 06:17:32 AM PDT