Republican de facto President George W. Bush (having received an unlawful advantage of 52 ineligible Electoral votes), when asked in an interview with Charles Gibson of ABC News, about using the full might of the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) to defend the Republic of Taiwan from the fascist People’s Republic of China, Bush responds with, “Whatever it [takes] to help Taiwan defend herself.”
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References:
Chalmers Johnson, Nemesis: the last days of the American Republic, (New York: Metropolitan, 2006), 199.
President Bush’s Muddled Policy on Taiwan – fpb82.pdf
www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/fpb82.pdf
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