"Congratulations, Kim."
Posted on 10/09/2006 10:14:45 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
The Bush Administration's Failed North Korea Policy
Today, President Bush addressed North Korea’s announcement of their alleged nuclear test over the weekend. Over the last four years, the Bush Administration has outsourced our diplomacy with North Korea to other nations and failed to take the lead in making sure America remains safe and secure.
“Today's announcement is further evidence that President Bush has taken his eye off the ball, allowing a member of the so-called ‘axis of evil’ to allegedly test a nuclear weapon,” said Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean. “First, President Bush aided and abetted the outsourcing of American jobs, and now he’s outsourced our diplomacy as well. This development on the Korean Peninsula is further proof that you can’t trust Republicans to keep America safe. Under the President's watch, North Korea has become more dangerous and Iran continues to threaten its neighbors and America. Democrats remain committed to a foreign policy that is both tough and smart.”
Experts Say Bush Administration Strategy Has Claimed Credit For Diplomatic Process But Failed to Take Any Responsibility for a Lack of Results. A report by the National Security Advisory Group issued in July of 2005 states that "Since 9/11, in the face of North Korea's runaway nuclear program, U.S. policymakers: did nothing as North Korea crossed redline after redline; claimed credit for diplomatic process (the Six-Party Talks) but have taken no responsibility for total lack of results; attempted to outsource the issue to China and then blame the failure on China; [and] tried to blame the Clinton administration, the administration that actually stopped plutonium production in North Korea." The report continues by saying that during the Clinton Administration, North Korea had no plutonium, but during the Bush Administration, North Korea has at least four to six nuclear weapons worth of plutonium. [Worst Weapons in Worst Hands, The National Security Advisory Group, July 2005]
North Korea Has Dramatically Increased Its Weapons Material Stockpile under the Bush Administration. When President Bush took office in 2000, Pyongyang had enough fissile material to manufacture 1-2 nuclear weapons. Today, experts believe that North Korea possesses material sufficient to build between 4 and 13 nuclear weapons and, unless an agreement is reached to stop the country's program, it is estimated that Pyongyang will have enough material to manufacture between 8 and 17 nuclear weapons by 2008. [Institute for Science and International Security, 6/26/06]
Source URL: http://www.democrats.org/a/2006/10/the_bush_admini_2.php
At least they are off the gay bashing for now.
Bush took office in 2001. Clinton was in office in 2000. Whoops, Howeird Dean
Dean REALLY doesn't want us bringing up the Clinton Years
Those stupid asses REALLY don't want to revisit the 90's when the dancing midget Maddy Albright was clinking champagne glasses with Comrade Chia Pet, while Jimmy f'in Carter was "negotiating" an agreement that wasn't worth the paper Kim Jong donated from his toilet paper roll to write it on, and of course Emperor Billigula signed off on that agreement which provided MORE nuclear technology to Pyongyang which they have apparently been exploiting.
Rove is so smart. He got DPRK to test a nuke to get Foley off the headlines. LOL
Rove you magnificent bastard :^)
"Congratulations, Kim."
Ah, yeah, Bush should have given them another nuclear reactor like Clinton, huh? And, exactly what did Clinton get by giving away the store to N. Korea? Oh yeah, he got the opportunity to kick the can down the road again so he could enjoy high approval ratings while he continued the holiday from history cruise.
Shall we start with Chinagate and the Cox Report??
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/resources/1999/cox.report/
I loathe those maggots.
They are counting on failing and short-term memories, cognitive dissonance, and frank dishonesty in their supporters.
They won't be disappointed.
How is it a failure if the test is only alleged?
"The U.S. came to believe in 1997, for instance, that North Korea had built an underground nuclear facility in Kumchang-ri. The administration still dishonestly maintained that all was well with the Agreed Framework. On July 8, 1998, Albright told Congress, the Agreed Framework had "frozen North Korea's dangerous nuclear-weapons program." When intelligence about the suspect site at Kumchang-ri became public in August 1998, Albright told frustrated senators at a hearing that she hadn't known about the information until later in July. The head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, present at the hearing, had to interrupt her: "Madame Secretary, that is incorrect." She had been told many months earlier."
Bush didn't take office till 2001
Clinton was President in 2000
Dean REALLY doesn't want us bringing up the Clinton Years...
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The liberal Dems are morons, and THEY set up that dog-eating freak in NK to make nukes. That is a fact. Also a fact, is that if the world does nothing but throw threats and condemnations at NK, they will just keep doing what they are doing --- and so will Iran. That is a fact.
Washington is hiding on this one, behind the UN...resolutions, crap. The NKs, the Chinese and the Iranians, are all laughing now...
Yeah...kinda like President Nixon sending kerry to Cambodia in 1968......
It must be a "dem" thing....
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