By: Chinationreport Editor

Allegedly three Chinese Gymnasts are under 16, the minimum age allowed to compete in the Olympic gymnastics. This incident has caused serious global consequences, namely:

• America lost one to two gold medals in the Beijing Games.
• The hard work of American gymnasts is not fairly awarded and recognized.
• The feelings of 300 million Americans are hurt.
• The feelings of Chinese gymnasts are also hurt. They insist that they did nothing wrong.

The Chinese government denies this allegation and has since shown various official documents and explanation to prove its innocence.

According to numerous sources, the pre-war Iraq intelligence was forged. The Huffington Post reports on August 5th, 2008:

A new book by the author Ron Suskind claims that the White House ordered the CIA to forge a back-dated, handwritten letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein. Suskind writes in "The Way of the World," to be published Tuesday, that the alleged forgery - adamantly denied by the White House - was designed to portray a false link between Hussein's regime and al Qaeda as a justification for the Iraq war.

By now we also know that the forged CIA intelligence has had and is still having some severe global consequences, namely:

• A war has been waged against Iraq.
• Saddam was captured and executed, followed by domestic violence in Iraq and increased tensions between US and Iran.
• Over 4000 American soldiers lost their lives.
• An Opinion Research Business (ORB) survey conducted August 12-19, 2007 estimated 1,220,580 violent deaths due to the Iraq War (range of 733,158 to 1,446,063). Out of a national sample of 1,499 Iraqi adults, 22% had one or more members of their household killed due to the Iraq War (poll accuracy +/-2.4%). – Source: Wikipedia.org/Iraq-War
• During an NPR interview on March 3rd 2008, Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, co-author of The Three Trillion Dollar War explains that Americans will spend decades treating the physical and psychological wounds of Iraq veterans — and when the economic consequences of the invasion are taken into account, the costs are staggering. – NPR.org
• Indirect consequences may include: US record budget deficit, record oil price, US and global financial crisis

On August 24, 2008, I searched ‘CIA Forged Document’ and ‘under age gymnasts’ on Google with the following results:

Results 1 - 10 of about 59,600 for cia forged document

Results 1 - 10 of about 1,110,000 for under age gymnasts

My dear loyal visitors:

I am not trying to defend China on this age controversy. I am not trying to accuse the USA on its CIA intelligence. History will be our best judge. I ask why our freedom loving Western citizens, given the dramatic different impact of these two incidents, you are more outraged by China’s unproven cheating than America’s well-documented lying?

If China is proven wrong, the medals can be returned to the USA. When USA is proven wrong, can any lives be returned to their loved ones?