OK so when the Dems win the House and start impeachment proceedings against the President how exactly is that supposed to help this situation?
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!!!
OK Nuclear North Korea sells fissle material to terrorists (Hamas,AL-Qeada,Islamic Jihad,Hezzbollah,Taliban) You pick they are all allied. Then that organization carries out a suicide mission on say Tel Aviv, or wait, no, 911 taught us some lessons right, Oceans are not protective borders. So lets say with that Nuke in the trunk of a car in downtown Manhattan or Times Square at Midnight on New Years Eve, either way with a nuke you only have to be close for maximum impact. At that point will the Liberals believe its time for action, will they continue to blame Bush? Will they continue to politicize and undermine everything we are doing to fight this terror threat? or will they get onboard. How can the next (bi-partisan) commission conclude that we failed to connect the dots again. It appears that only ignorant Liberals are not seeing the dots start to align again.
The key to this is China. China has to decide once and for all whether it wants to continue to be a spoiler or a responsible world power. I'm not holding my breath that they'll do the right thing. They really haven't grown up yet.
Yes we should have been using the kind if diplomacy that Clinton and Albright used for eight years, which was bending over and grabbing the ankles, GIVING North Korea the technology and materials they needed to make this nuclear device and surely others, possible. But then, that’s Bush’s fault too. The media has already spun it as though North Korea didn’t start their nuclear weapons program until January 20th, 2001, and they weren’t doing ANY nuclear research before then, despite Clinton having had provided North Korea with nuclear materials, necessary equipment, and other necessary technology, accepting a promise not to use them for nuclear weapons. Accepting a promise from a man that has never kept any promises he’s made all his life. He learned well from his father.
The dictator of North Korea gladly starves his family to maintain his military and chemical, biological, and now nuclear arsenals. What promise can be trusted from a man who starves his people to maintain his totally unnecessary military? The only wars on that peninsula the past 100 years have been started by nations that were not democracies. Japan, and North Korea. Since WWII, Japan has not attacked North Korea, and South Korea has never attacked North Korea since the two were split.
One thing is for sure, and it’s a point the democrats will NEVER admit to or make themselves for certain. Of the three most hostile and unstable nations in the world that were sponsors of terror and seekers of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, the only one that we are CERTAIN has no chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, is Iraq, the one we used military force against to remove the dictator and start a democratically elected government. That’s the bottom line. Oh, and Libya voluntarily giving up their chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs because dictator Qadaffi was so scared we’d do to him what we did to Hussein, that’s a bonus. When military action was taken against Iraq, their banned weapons programs ceased to exist, and so did Libya’s by proxy. And Iraq did have WMD, there are tons of banned materials that were removed the past three years from Iraq that he swore he didn’t have, including the hundreds of sarin gas long range artillery shells, and the nearly three tons of enriched (yellow cake) uranium that was removed from Iraq in 2004, which Hussein swore to the world he didn’t have. Oh, Joe Wilson also swore Hussein didn’t have it. And yet, there it is. Hussein and Joe Wilson and the Democrats alike say the same thing to Americans every time; "What are you going to believe? Us? Or your lying eyes?" The idea that Iraq had no WMD before March of 2003 is the biggest new urban legend. It’s flatly untrue and military storage sites in America and Iraq and full of banner weapons materials that shouldn’t have been there, but were, and it’s documented for anyone who is more concerned with reality over their obsessive political agenda.
The nations in which diplomacy has been used, at the urging of the Democrats, North Korea and Iran, well lets see, they break all promises, ignore all deadlines, and North Korea now has nuclear weapons, and Iran is close to having them, if they don’t already. And this crap that Bush didn’t use the right kind of diplomacy is such a red herring. There are only so many kinds of diplomacy. Clinton got NO WHERE with North Korea or Iran, they had eight years of unfettered access to whatever materials they wanted, and furthered their chemical and biological and nuclear weapons programs with nary a "boo" from the Clinton White House. Now Democrats continue to rant about "talking" to Iran and North Korea. I swear, the people leading the liberal charge for diplomacy with North Korea and Iran are the stupidest smart people in the whole world. There is only one thing that radical tyrannical dictators like Kim Jong-Il and Ahmadinejad understand. Force of arms and pounding on a table. They do not respond to diplomacy, they laugh at us inside when we "dialogue" with them and think we’re fools for just talking. Diplomacy has pointed out the weakest of all world governments in these situations, just like before WWI and WWII. The sooner America understands that, the better. Otherwise, that TV show "Jericho" will become the new 9-11 reality, and the fault will belong exclusively with those who want to use "diplomacy" with North Kore and Iran.
"The president said North Korea was "one of the world's leading proliferators" of weapons technology, including transfers to Iran and Syria."
I'm so glad we know it. We've heard about it for awhile. Don't know if we are going to do anything about it. But we know it. And that's important, I guess.
I was at the Abbey, praying like mad...so missed GW's speech. (Every Sunday the monks pray for GW, God bless them.) Scanned a lot of comments and came to the conclusion that the President must have spent time on the phone to China. They're the key to controlling NK, if that's possible at this point. But China could demand Taiwan as the price for shutting down NK's food supply, etc.. Presumably some heavy poker playing going on. As for the UN, we know that's a waste of time, and we have to put Kim out of business permanently. If we dither on this one, we're done.