Posted on 04/09/2007 5:17:49 PM PDT by amchugh
PYONGYANG, North Korea --New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson on Monday toured a U.S. warship captured by North Korea in the 1960s that is now used to inspire anti-American sentiment in the reclusive communist regime.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Apparently the RATS are in some sort of competition to see which one can be more accommodating to our enemies. They should all be investigated.
Damn’d if this isn’t an affront, he’s toast now.
At least he’s not the Speaker but why is Richardson in N.Korea??? The Dems are really taking this shadow government seriously.
Can you tie him to a chair or something to keep him out of NK?
Won’t that make a great opposing candidate commercial.
No Kidding!
Why didn’t / doesn’t our military blow this thing up with a smart bomb, like we do to all other vehicles that we leave behind, for this very reason?
What the devil are all these dimwits doing traveling to these countries?
Richardson was on a US-approved mission to recover US remains from the Korean War (or “Conflict”, as the Dims refer to it). He got sandbagged with the tour. Serves him right — dictatorships always can make a “diplomatic” visit unpleasant. Personal diplomacy has its risks and this one is going to sting, badly.
See my #11.
It's called fundraising.
The Democrats are sure to reap huge contributions from our enemies in this election cycle.
I am serious.
The North Korea colonel who served as Richardson's guide smiled as he told the governor the ship was an example of continued U.S. aggression toward his country. ...
Richardson, a Democratic presidential candidate who is in North Korea this week to collect the remains of U.S. servicemen killed in the Korean War, said the tour of the ship was "unpleasant."
The Pueblo should have been recaptured or destroyed years ago.
As far as I am concerned she is still a US Navy ship and the idea of communist locusts crawling over her decks makes me want to vomit.
Hell, give the mission to the Air Force. One B-2 with a precision-guided bomb should be all that is needed to send her to an honorable grave.
Another Dim yoyo who gets his kicks by acting like a diplomat.
[I know I would have gone down swinging at least, if I was there.]
Knucklehead.... = Richardson
The NK's can keep him.
Yeah, I saw that. Richardson has been trying to build a foreign diplomacy portfolio for a while now. We’ll see if he comes up with more condemning language after he leaves N. Korea.
I thought he was there at the request of the President. Per your post I guess I was mistaken.
I read where President Bush endorsed this trip. Bush needs to be in the same class room, sitting as a student. The teachers should be former Chinese, Russian, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Burmese and Islamist (and other) system slaves.
It’s frustraing for the average American to have to have wussies for leaders. It should be settled before leaving that a US leader will not tour the Pueblo. As a matter of fact we should have bombed it along time ago after our prisoners were returned.
What on earth is Richardson thinking of? I thought he was a decent guy compared to the rest of the Democratic candidates. They are all turncoats.
WHAT IS THIS????????
I cannot BELIEVE this guy would let himself be paraded around on the USS Pueblo. I just cannot believe it.
I have always said that if the KorComs would not repatriate the vessel, we should obliterate that poor ship with 5 or 6 laser guided Mk84’s.
Now I am thinking we should have done it while that traitorous SOB Richardson was parading around on it.
This is shameful and disgusting. I am appalled by this.
Dave, I watched a short clip of him in NK, and he looked pretty unkempt...his hair was sticking out, and he looked more “jowly” than ever. I think this trip will turn out to be a loser for him, poor thing ;0
Richardson is just spending time with people who share his political philosophy.
Happens all the time.
Pelosi embraces the mohammedans, Richardson embraces north korean communists. Hillary, well hell Hillary embraces any political philosophy that places power exclusively in the hands of the elites.
I would be terribly surprised and not a little bit frightened if they weren’t openly showing their admiration and respect for these murderers and thugs.
It would mean they were acting out of character and that is never a good sign.
I do not give a flying crap whether it was endorsed or not. That dumb SOB should never have gone on the vessel. He should have refused, damn him.
Richardson has one eye open for Bubba,the mexican pimp knows talant.
The Pueblo was hardly a warship.
I AM angry about this. Could this stupid clod, who apparently has enough brain cells to get elected governor of a state, not understand the significance of the vessel.
My dad was a friend of CDR Bucher...and he was also the Communications and Security Officer at Yokosuka when the capture occured. I don’t remember it, but my mother told me that my dad didn’t sleep at home for two weeks, he was in the communications hut on the base at the time.
He never spoke of it to me.
It would be great if he could initiate the process of getting the Pueblo back. At one time, the NKs actually thought about returning her. The inevitable something happened and it still sits over in NK.
You have got tp be kidding me!
Well...she was a ship of the U.S. Navy, and did have two .50 cal machine guns, so that does technically make her a warship.
COMNAVFORJAPAN (ADM Johnson) was against arming the vessel, and suggested the weapons be stored below, but made it clear that it was up to the Captain. In the end, they did have the guns on deck covered with tarpaulins, and never uncovered them.
The feeling of helplessness sets in when you realize what a bunch of total pansies our leaders are. The elites in this country are not as tough as the leadership of enemy countries...and they aren’t as tough as most Americans either.
They are disgraces.
He was always Fats Richardson The Bungler to me ... this once again proves it.
richardson gave the chicoms space, nukes and how to build a working ICBM. He should already have been tried for treason, found guilty and have assumed room temperature!
LLS
ronery is crazy enough to destroy Seoul if we did. It wouldn’t take long... but it would cost nk it’s existence. Like I said... ronery is crazy.
LLS
greeeaaaaaat- maybe Kim, Albright, and Richardson can go have a three way. disgusting.
I just read the article (again) where in the article does it say Richardson was endorsing this?
He’s a traitor. Research when he was Energy Secretary. There are NO good dims... they are all evil!
LLS
He’s there isn’t he.
Good grief what’s next? Hillary visitng MadMood?
DITTO LLS: FatHead Richardson should already have been tried for treason, found guilty and have assumed room temperature!
Again (it seem’s I must repeat) AT the request of POTUS.
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