Heads Up! President Bush Addresses the Nation 09:45AM ET

Fox News | 10/9/2006 | staff

[kellynla]

President Bush addresees the nation from the White House 09:45AM ET

[Knitting A Conundrum]

You don't want sanctions - you want to siege them!

[Steel Wolf]

Will the SC meet behind closed doors?

Since they're going to be hiding under their desks, I'm guessing they're gonna go 'doors closed'.

[popdonnelly]

Has to be one of the worst Secretaries of State we've ever had. And the Clinton Attorney General was also one of the worst.

And these dimwits have the audacity to complain about Rice.

[r9etb]

The US doesn't have the stomach

You know, the real Mr. Rogers wasn't a whiny little wuss. We have the stomach, or we wouldn't be in Iraq and Afghanistan right now.

We can't simply attak NK without sacrificing hundreds of thousands (at least) of South Koreans. I don't have the stomach for that, either. Your Kommando Keyboard might.

The likely price tag for SK limits our options -- but it doesn't close them out. Regime change is the way to address this problem. Li'l Kim is a marked man.

[itsahoot]

We just have to get over it. President Bush will do nothing. The world will do nothing.

Prescient

[Strategerist]

A conventional war in Korea would almost certainly kill miliions of South Koreans.

That's rather doubtful.

[spectre]

I suspect President Bush wasn't really comfortable with pronouncing the word "nuccular." He always takes a hit for that :)

sw

[rhombus]

Hey Peach, you can make any comment you want to. You do a great job transcribing and I thank you for whatever you want to post.

[MadIvan]

Like I said, choke the regime to death. Make it so that things carrying on the way they are will lead to the country collapsing due to starvation. Either they will die, or the people or army will rise up in rebellion.

Regards, Ivan

[BCrago66]

CNN online has a live feed to the mike at the UN where representaives are speaking - Russia is speaking now - but no translator...

[Williams]

Right, we can't even confirm our own UN ambassador, impeded by a kook renegade liberal republican senator at a time when we are at war and the world is in crisis. Things are not looking good.

I predict that in short order a chorus of concern from conservatives will force the president to at least sound tougher.

Oh, maybe the proponents of splitting Iraq up will see what wonders that has worked in Korea.

[ichabod1]

Welcome to a whole new world!

It IS a whole new world because S. Korea and especially Japan are going to see that they can't count on the US to come to their aid. The President leaves them no choice but to develop their own deterrent. At least that's how I'd be looking at it if I was them.

[ClaireSolt]

I think that we will now benefit from the work of the Six party talks, although they did not prevent this. Lots of work has gone into building regional consensus, and it will bear fruit. This is not just about us, as it would have been, if Dems had been playing Let's Make a Deal.

[Blogger]

Or Peninshular

[r9etb]

The deaths of a couple of million South Koreans, for instance? The steel fist is an empty threat, and the North Koreans know it.

I fully agree that the options are limited in that sense. But it doesn't mean we have no options. A steel fist doesn't necessarily mean mounting an invasion. There are less overt ways to take direct action, and I suspect those will start soon. I'm thinking things like infiltration teams for assassinations and sabotage -- and Li'l Kim's fuzzy head on a platter. Take out the regime, and the rest of NK will roll over.

[MNJohnnie]

Who cares whose fault it is. They have been allowed to do this. Period. President Bush said and PROMISED AMERICA that North Korea WOULD NOT be allowed to have Nuclear Weapons.

As usual the rabid Bush haters are cannot get the facts straight. The President said that about Iran, he NEVER said any such thing about North Korean North Korea was suspected of having at least 6 nukes back in 1998s. All this does is confirm that suspicion.

[DollyCali]

sounds VERY GOOD to me Ivan

[Just A Nobody]

Sorry I missed this Dolly. By the time you would have gotten a link it would have been over. Very brief statement.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Dennis Ross on Fox is talking about how Iran is watching this closely. Talk only could be interpreted as a "green light" for their nuclear program.

[maggief]

Link:

http://img.thefreedictionary.com/wiki/e/e5/Great_Leader_Comrade_Kim_Jong_Il_(122).jpg