Posted on 10/11/2008 7:22:52 AM PDT by maquiladora
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States plans to announce on Saturday that it will take North Korea off its terrorism blacklist in a bid to salvage denuclearization talks, a U.S. official familiar with the decision said.
The official, who asked not to be named as the announcement is set to be made later in the day, said Pyongyang had provided assurances on verifying its nuclear activities and President George W. Bush decided to proceed with taking the North off the U.S. list of states considered sponsors of terrorism.
The move, which will be unpopular with some conservative Republicans who see the United States as giving in to North Korea, follows days of deliberations within the administration after a visit by U.S. envoy Chris Hill to Pyongyang last week.
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Genius. NK has a half dozen missiles on the launch pad and we promise to quit calling them names.
No guts foreign policy. We took it to the Taliban and Saddam and everyone else gets a pass.
“The official, who asked not to be named....”
Isn’t North Korea in the process of restarting it’s nuclear enrichment facility?
President George W. Bush has been taken off my list. Next, he'll be making friends with MyMood I'm-In-Jihad looking into his soul. Perhaps, G.W. will even endorse Barry Obambi like Chuck Hagel & wife are.
America has lost its way... We deserve what evil befalls us...
“The United States plans to announce on Saturday that it will take North Korea off its terrorism blacklist in a bid to salvage denuclearization talks, a U.S. official familiar with the decision said.”
If you have a child that you caught stealing a cookie, do you give him a hug and a kiss and send him on his way?
What would Reagan do?
Another great decision by Gutless Wimp Bush.
I’m hoping there is something happening behind the scenes that I’m not seeing that led to this decision. I’m hoping, but I’m sure not seeing what it could be.
Do you want fries with that too?
A holding action to keep the NKs happy until after the election.
Now they won’t hate us.
Apparently Dubya has been convinced the Obama Doctrine will bring world peace and is implementing it.
Expect us to start shipping them free food and heating oil this month.
Meanwhile the drooling despot has told UN inspectors to leave and is preparing to boot up his legacy nuke weapons plant.
Hope you’re right, but announcing to the world that NK is now just hunky-dory with us doesn’t seem, at least on the surface, to be a genius move.
So we ignored them for years, they got nukes, tried to export technology to Syria, now we talk to them and they are our friends?
We have been told this talk point so many times. It is getting old. Try something new.
LOL
link?
What the @#%&.
Quite the news morning. Bush throws our country to the world socialists, now we’re palling around with the murderous shrimpy nutbag? What next: Bush invites our Chinese creditor overlords to grab the American helm for a “short time” to stabilize the market?
Sweet, sweet Jesus. It’s like I’m living now in Bizarro America.
OH TIGER did you hear???
Guess with the new Social World Order of our United States we can’t afford to have enemies anymore. Play nice with all the kids on the playground. Even the ones that may and will kick your a** given the opportunity.
Thanks you sir. May I have another?
And b/c of all these cluster****s, one after the other, 0bama and Co. are going to claim a huge mandate.
You just wait.
All is sweetness and light. What a steaming pile!
> And b/c of all these cluster****s, one after the other, 0bama and Co. are going to claim a huge mandate.
> You just wait.
I’m getting a migraine just thinking about it. Honestly, it does feel sometimes as if they are all in cahoots, Dims and GOP together. The only other possibility is that Bush and the GOP are mind-numbingly incompetent. Either way you slice it, not good.
El foldo “legacy” move. As predictable as sunrise.
BAD NEWS,
if this is true.
I’m waiting to see the brilliant scheme unfold that this apparent nonsense is based on. Yep, still waiting...
Come to dark side Dubya I am your father LOL!
and I wanted Condi for Prez in 08!!!!!!!!!!!!It was years ago!!!!
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