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

[tomnbeverly]

OK so when the Dems win the House and start impeachment proceedings against the President how exactly is that supposed to help this situation?

[r9etb]

It's not silentknight's responsibility to do something, it's the President's.

It's your assumption that he's doing, and will continue to do nothing. That's a bad assumption. Silentknight is playing "keyboard kommando" today -- there's no value in his remarks.

[OldFriend]

China does not want to be over run by North Koreans. China is likely to suffer from any nuke set off by NK

China is afraid that they will end up like the Soviet Union in the end. Communism falling like dominoes. NK is their buffer.

[rhombus]

Contrary to the provincial American notion that no one can do anything without the US holding their hands, the SK Military could of taken action any time to stop this. They choose not too.

I hope they're enjoying their sunshine policy under a nuclear cloud.

[concerned about politics]

Did they announce an investigation into Clinton as well???? heh No, but I'm sure Rush will be bringing that very topic up at noon to 3 P.M. today...AND RIGHTLY SO! Der Slickmeister gave that low life dog eating Commie Dictator Kim Ding Dong the technology.

Jimmy Carter gave them nuclear technology.
They blackmailed Clinton and he caved. He funded (with our tax dollars) it's upgrading. Without Cater/Clinton and U.S. tax dollars, Korea wouldn't have workable nukes today.
Dems have nuclear waste on their hands, that's for sure.

[Steel Wolf]

Ahhhhh, grasshopper .. you forget which country lives next door to NK. The US doesn't have to engage in it. Semicolon; go on with the sentence.

I've been to China and South Korea, I'm familiar with the local geography. It's the assassination angle I'm not buying. Perhaps you can interest Tom Clancy in the plot, because otherwise it runs into some real life hurldes that you can't deus ex machina your way out of.

[Mr Rogers]

Between Seoul and nK. South Korea will have to decide what to do about nK.

[WoofDog123]

"should we not ask the proverbial question: "Do the North Korean people truly have the will to overthrow an oppressive regime". "

hard to imagine a country based on an asian version of 1984 having a populace willing to do much more than try to find food and keep from having themselves and their families sent to camps or elsewhere.

It is darn near impossible to overthrow a conventional dictatorship, much less an orwellian police state with 3 different internal security police.

[OldFriend]

Many many thank yous for your service and your son's service.

Thank you for being logical about the situation in Korea.

I often hear knee jerk comments about overthrowing Vicente Fox.....allowing a Chavez clone to control the oil?.....and about overthrowing the Saudi Royals.....allowing the OBL types to control the oil??

People don't think about the big picture, they just want to rush off willy nilly leaving havoc and utter destruction behind.

[sasha123]

"You kill Kim Jong Il."


That is probably the best way to take care of this situation.

[Just A Nobody]

You are correct, of course. Had the TV and 2 computer screens going and only 2 cups of coffee consumed. My humble apologies.

[maryz]

Both China and South Korea have been sending food and other supplies to North Korea.

From what I hear, the ordinary people don't get much of it -- just the elites and the military.

[Blue Turtle]

Folks, this reminds us what a great country we live in. We need to protect its traditions, charms and people. Let our heritage be true, proud and light the world. God Bless the USA.

[WoofDog123]

" Assassination of foreign leaders is illegal, and the U.S. won't engage in it. Period. Full stop."

obviously information is extremely limited and some of it conflicting, but the train explosion some time back was suspicious if nothing else for the timing vs. dear leader's passage through that area.

[OldFriend]

Just about all the current African leaders are starving their opposition population. Is that what you want America to do. Starve people to death for political reasons.

I pray for the soul of this country.

[kellynla]

I don't think the 'Rats are all that anxious to impeach GWB when the next man in line for the job would be Dick Cheney. :-]

[Mr Rogers]

Please see post 307...

[cva66snipe]

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.

Yea but NK is much much closer to U.S. assets and even the U.S. Bush needs to stop worrying about the oppressed in NK and start worrying about a nuke armed NK with a mad man in charge. His job isn't to protect the oppressed in NK. Those so called oppressed allowed for this mad man to come to power. Just like the so called oppressed in Iraq allowed Saddam. The same for Iran. What are we doing for the oppressed in Iraq? Building their new thug dictator {yet to come to power} a better Iraq to use against us.

[TomGuy]

North Korea did it!

Now they are in trouble. They are going to get a 'bad conduct' slip from the UN.

Kim, keep this up, and you'll get a demerit from the Security Council next!!!

[Law is not justice but process]

It seems a bit outdated to call the Chinese system Communist. It is totalitarian with a Capitalist economy that is dominated by cronies of the ruling party. I would say it is more like Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy than, say, the Soviet Union or Mao's vision of China. I suspect the Chinese would be more comfortable dealing with South Korea these days than with Kim.

Mind you, I realize they still call themselves Communist, but they don't walk the walk.I also take little comfort from the fact that they have drifted rather far from their Socialist roots. After all, Fascism was hardly an acceptable alternative to Stalinism.