"We don't think of Japan as an ATM", "Japan is not just some ATM." are not direct #Bushism

> ..the denial by a "Senior White House official" that the US president would ever think of Japan as "just some ATM machine" was so bizarre as to suggest that perhaps that might be precisely how he saw it.

https://apjjf.org/-Gavan-McCormack/2111/article.html
#GavanMcCormack #Japan #ATM #JapanAsATM for #USAMilitary
> #TakaoHishinuma, #EijiHirose, "US official says Japan 'not just some ATM'," #DailyYomiuri Online, 10 October 2003.