Posted on 07/10/2006 7:43:25 AM PDT by george76
On Sunday's This Week, during the roundtable discussion, host George Stephanopoulos embarrassed himself and had to backtrack after he raised Clinton Defense Secretary William Perry's recommendation -- that President Bush bomb the nuclear missiles on the launchpad in North Korea -- but then went a step further and combined Perry's proposal with blaming the Iraq war for preventing that type of action in 2003, only to be thoroughly refuted by George Will.
“I don't even believe what I said,” Stephanopoulos sheepishly conceded, “So I take it back, you're right.”
Stephanopoulos had proposed: “What if in 2003, instead of invading Iraq, President Bush takes out the reprocessing facilities in North Korea, which according to Secretary Perry, President Clinton was willing to do back in 1993 before they started the negotiations?
We would be in a far different place."
How ground troops in Iraq precluded one of many Navy ships not committed to Iraq from firing off a few missiles at a target, Stephanopoulos did not explain.
But Will pointed out how “the capital of South Korea is 30 miles away from the 38th parallel, North Korea, and we don't know what kind of spasm might result from this irrational regime. North Korea could destroy that capital without a soldier leaving the North Korea and using entirely conventional weapons."
To which, Stephanopoulos offered his retraction and quickly segued to the Lieberman Senate race.
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Exactly what I was thinking...further, we know that you wouldn't have owned up to this if you hadn't been caught.
I guessed he worked for billyblythe for some time.
Clinton was busy with his White House coffee meetings...taking money for his library fund from the Communists in trade our missle and nuclear technology.
LOL - good one
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That is Stupid translated, I looked it up online. How great is that!
Putz did not come up! LOL
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Seoul is the price that would be paid for any act of war against NK. In fact, the single most threatening act that South Korea could commit against the North would be to evacuate their own capital city.
Gotta love that rough tough Clinton guy. The "woulda, coulda, shoulda" presidency.
If only Clinton wasn't elected...He wouldn't have given a Communist Dictator Uranium and $800 Million annually...
Damn Perot voters!
The Dems are gung-ho to fight wars we are not fighting. Its how they strut and act brave while undercutting the actual war we are fighting.
Does anyone remember how many leading Dems and Dem journalists, during the run-up to the war in 2003, insisted that we attack North Korea, that NK was the real threat? This all the while we were moving troops into the middle east, preparing to invade Iraq. It was clear to me at least that NK was rattling sabers in an effort to distract us from Iraq. Bush refused to be distracted. But the Dems seized on NK as an opportunity to pose as tough militarists.
The catch is that we know what they would do if we were serious about NK. They would do what they did; promise them anything, free fuel, a free nuke plant, anything. Because that is exactly what Clinton and Carter did do. They had no interest in a confrontation with NK when it was their turn at the helm.
StuffinEnvelopes making a fool out of himself is nothing new.
Oh, and Bill Clinton threatened to kick some country's butt again, right?
Catching StuffinEnvelopes making a fool out of himself , again, is fun.
The "woulda, coulda, shoulda" presidency.
Clinton and his Clintonistas would loose even at checkers.
"This Week With an Idiot"
ROFLMAO. Yep. Redeploy to Okinawa. Ruthlessly bomb North Korea in 2003. Negotiate to give nuclear material to unstable regimes.
They're brilliant really.
LOL.
Oh look everybody...It's a hijacker.
The panel this week also included Donna Brazile, another font of wisdom. So I guess the show should be named:
"This Week With a Couple of Idiots"
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