U.S. Training Chinese Police...While not Supplying our Troops in Iraq

Leave it to Lou Dobbs to expose the U.S. government's betrayal of America. Especially as it relates to China. This is another shocker:

A great democracy helping out a totalitarian state. The United States consulting with communist China on security and anti- terrorist matters. Critics, however, say the Chinese police may be learning advanced law enforcement techniques that could help the communist regime become an even stronger police state.

Are they that naive in Washington:

JOSEPH LIN, THE JAMESTOWN FOUNDATION: The excuse is that they need to establish crowd control to be able to maintain an efficient police force to prevent any sort of instability, any sort of uprisings during the Olympics. But in reality, you know, there's no doubt these techniques will be used to quell a number of their rural protests, which is their main concern.

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Even more shocking. Our government is not supplying our troops with the equipment they need to fight in Iraq. Same transcript from Lou Dobbs, last night:

COL. THOMAS HAMMES (RET), U.S. MARINE CORPS: I think if we're going to make any success, we've got to get serious about the security forces. We've also got to get serious about providing our own forces the equipment they need. The administration's made a fundamentally immoral decision to not provide equipment to save money. We need to provide equipment.

DOBBS: Say that again.

HAMMES: They made a decision to not provide equipment...

DOBBS: The Bush administration.

HAMMES: ... for American forces and Iraqi forces. We have equipment backed up at repair depots, and repair depots have been told not to work overtime, or at least they are not working overtime. So we have young men and women training to go into a fight with no equipment.

DOBBS: And I just learned today that we have fundraisers going on in this country to provide body armor for our troops. Let me -- the idea that we are sitting here talking about the geopolitical and military aspects of this war at a time we're approaching -- it's now lasted longer than World War II, at a time when we're approaching four years from the invasion date. This is -- this goes beyond geopolitics and military strategy at this point, it seems to me. This is a question of fundamental competence on the part of the U.S. military. Am I wrong?

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Also on last night's show, Russia watchers explained why our downplaying that countries turn to tyranny is a mistake:

Very important to bear in mind that, although we've mortgaged our right to criticize what goes on in Russia in the hope that we'll get help from Russia on issues like Iran and North Korea, it's the very state of Russian society, the criminalization of Russian society, which is the root reason why we're not going to get that support from Russia that we need on issues like Iran and North Korea.