Chiang Kai-shek's wife just died...

[Some Moran]

If she's anything like her husband, good riddance. The fact that a Chiang can live twice as long as Paul Wellstone (she was 105) is proof that there is no God.

Hopefully James Soong is next. I hate that fascist bastard as much as I hate the faux-leftists on the mainland.

Chicoms are as progressive as Rush Limbaugh is honest.

[Clete]

1. Either that or God is putting off having them around

in the afterlife by keeping them on earth as long as possible.

[Abe Linkman]

2. Is she still dead?

She's the "lady" who helped DICK Nixxon steal the 1968 election. Or, was it the '72 election?

[alexwcovington]

3. Uh...

You remember Chiang Kai-Shek was not a communist... He was in charge of the other guys... who fled to Taiwan.... which today makes us such great computer parts and has a high standard of living, especailly compared to Mainland China...

[Some Moran]

4. I know who Chiang Kai-shek is...

Just because he opposed the communists doesn't mean he's a good guy.

Saying so makes about as much as sense as saying Stalin was a good guy for fighting with the Allies during WW2.

Chiang Kai-shek led a fascist apartheid dictatorship in which a minority of rich mainlanders exploited the Taiwanese Hans and aboriginals who were there long before the Chinese civil war.

Every ROC leader before Lee Teng-hui was a major league asshole.

And might I add, it's the left in Taiwan that wants independence, while the right wants reunification.

[alexwcovington]

5. Hmmm

Sorry, I didn't know what you meant by "Chicoms."

I don't know too terribly much about Taiwan but now you've piqued my interest... I'm going to look into this topic now...