NBC's Today Despairs Team Bush Ruined Clinton Progress in North Korea

MRC ^ | 10-10-06

[right-wingin_It]

Someone posted this earlier on a related thread...It's needed here

[PeskyOne]

I've never trusted her, and I think if we ever get to the bottom of the Wilson/Plame scandal, we'll find she hasn't been completely honest. Maybe Fitzgerald will indict her, Matt Cooper, and Tim Russert!

[Conservative Coulter Fan]

The House North Korea Advisory Group, chaired by Rep. Benjamin A. Gilman, R-N.Y. Members of the panel included Rep. Doug Bereuter, R-Neb., then chairman of the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, Rep. Porter J. Goss, R-Fla., chairman of Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and Christopher Cox, R-Calif., then chairman of the Republican Policy Committee issued a report in 1999 stating among other things:

"Through the provision of two light water reactors [LWRs] under the 1994 Agreed Framework, the United States, through KEDO, will provide North Korea with the capacity to produce annually enough fissile material for nearly 100 nuclear bombs, should the Democratic People's Republic of Korea [DPRK] decide to violate the Nonproliferation Treaty [NPT]."

"If the 1994 Agreed Framework is implemented and two LWRs are eventually built and operated in North Korea, the reactors could produce close to 500 kilograms of plutonium in spent reactor fuel each year; enough for nearly 100 bombs annually if North Korea decides to break its obligations and reprocess the material."

"Although the 1994 Agreed Framework was essentially aimed at eliminating North Korea's ability to make nuclear weapons, there is significant evidence that nuclear weapons development is continuing, including its efforts to acquire uranium enrichment technologies and its nuclear-related high explosive tests."

"In the last five years, North Korea's missile capabilities have improved dramatically. North Korea has produced, deployed and exported missiles to Iran and Pakistan, launched a three-stage missile [Taepo Dong 1], and continues to develop a larger and more powerful missile [Taepo Dong 2].

"Unlike five years ago, North Korea can now strike the United States with a missile that could deliver high explosive, chemical, biological, or possibly nuclear weapons. Currently, the United States is unable to defend against this threat."

"In an astonishing reversal of nine previous U.S. administrations, the Clinton-Gore administration, in 1994, committed not only to provide foreign aid for North Korea, but to earmark that aid primarily for the construction of nuclear reactors worth up to $6 billion."

North Korea Advisory Group - Final Report

[cricket]

The democrats are shameless, but at least their 'spin' and their demagoguery show some backbone.

Well, the Left's does a great job of 'demigogueing' 'so to speak'. . .but don't think it is backbone that infuses their MO. . .but rather a spineless non-resistance to evil that motivates them. . .

. . .being 'spineless' allows them to be brazen. . .arrogant; indifferent to truth; gluttonous for power; allergic to any form of altruism; in their spinlessness; they are mean and they are snarky; they are rude and they can be dangerous. . .as well as 'very dangerous'.

These people do not 'walk tall' but rather 'crawl low'. . .

[Conservative Coulter Fan]

[stockstrader]

The Republicans have failed miserably in getting the following facts out:

1. Bush inheritied a RECESSION from Clinton. The market tanked 9 months before Clinton left office--and entered recession the first quarter of 2001.

2. Bush inherited a grossly underfunded intelligence budget,

3. Bush inherited a grossly underfunded military,

4. Bush inherited the Gorelick Wall (with bricks supplied by Clinton),

5. Bush inherited a national security mess when it came to terrorism due to all of the above--and Clinton's derelection of duty on national security,

6. Bush inherited an absolute mess dealing with North Korea due to Clinton's 1994 Agreement with North Korea to subsidize their economy and allow them nuclear technology, and

7. Republicans are letting the democrats set the agenda with this Foley fiasco.

The MSM sure won't highlight these ISSUES (except with the 'spin' the democrats put on it)--but you would think the Republicans WOULD. Their silence on these facts is outrageous. As I said, the Republicans deserve their fate in next month's election.

[Conservative Coulter Fan]

PING..

[aShepard]

I agree.

Rather than having our troops sitting in So. Korea, enjoying their kimchee and their new wifes,

we need these troops in Iraq, killing poeple and breaking things!

[Conservative Coulter Fan]

We need U.S. troops in Iraq to fight fanatical Islamic-Jihadists and former Baathists that are want to establish their "caliphate" of one-world totalitarian islamic state...the ayatollah of Iraq gave a speech yesterday declaring they would use any means...even chemical and biological to conquer such capitals as Moscow, London, and Washington D.C. - we also need them to protect our southern border from a literal invasion.

[xmission]

Believe it or not... McCain actually came out a bit after Hillary tried to sling some NK crap towards Bush. Not that I forgive him for being such a RINO...

[stockstrader]

Exactly. I'm not a McCain fan either, but at least he (he's the ONLY one) is HIGHLIGHTING the mess that President Bush inherited from Clinton's Appeasement Agreement with North Korea. President Bush has had to figure out some way to clean up that mess.

The rest of the Republican Party's silence is pathetic.

[.cnI redruM]

No wonder Chia Head's nuke test failed. It would have succeeded, if we had continued all the progress Bill Clinton was making.

[xmission]

It is sad, that the people fighting back are conservative columnists, and bloggers. That's roughly it.

If anyone from up in the party is listening, every time there is a BS campaign like this, we'd like you to get out the facts immediately, throw a press conference, and hand their heads to em.

[citizencon]

How naive, ignorant and stupid of 'Today' to think that America can just wine and dine the dictator and everyone will live happily everafter. Lauer and company should stick to promoting bio's and CD's of their liberal friends...

[HarleyLady27]

KOREAN KONSEQUENCES
CLINTON GAVE NORTH KOREA THE BOMB

By: Geoff Metcalf

Notwithstanding the protestations of blind democrat sycophants, former President Bill Clinton was a foreign policy disaster. The consequences of his geopolitical myopia and epic penchant for doing exactly the wrong thing are personified in the recent acknowledgment of North Korea.

So they lied…and North Korea IS working to develop nuclear weapons. You got a problem with that?

Arguably one of the worst foreign policy screw-ups since FDR sat down with Stalin in Yalta, North Korea fessed up to their nuke work. Work, which would have been highly unlikely, had not the Clinton regime showered billions of dollars in foreign aid throughout the 1990s and earmarked a chunk for North Korea’s nuclear energy program. In 1994 Clinton/Gore earmarked aid primarily for the construction of nuclear reactors worth up to $6 billion...

http://www.etherzone.com/2002/metc102902.shtml

[Jack Hammer]

NBC has it exactly bass-akwards. The Clinton regime ruined it for everyone else.

[bray]

Boy is that true! If Bush had followed Clinton's game plan North Korea would have a huge arsenal of fully functioning ICBMs by now and we'd have probably paid for it all along the way!

Not true, Kim couldn't afford the Campaign Funds to get our most top secret nuclear/missle secrets like China.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[combat_boots]

http://www.drudgereport.com/flashma.htm

The Youtube video on the Dimms

Somebody save it!

[BlueJ7]

Albright hears North Korea pledge to end missile tests
Chicago Sun-Times, Oct 24, 2000 by GEORGE GEDDA PYONGYANG, North Korea North Korean leader Kim Jong Il told U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright today that his country won't test any more missiles.

Albright said she took seriously Kim's promise, delivered seemingly offhand at a gymnastic exhibition.

Kim raised the issue when an image of a Taepo Dong I missile was flashed before the audience. "He quipped that this was the first satellite launch and it would be the last," Albright said.

Asked if she interpreted that as a pledge to end missile launches, Albright said, "I take what he said as serious as to his desire to move forward to resolve various questions."

A State Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said after Albright and Kim finished their talks that the North Korean leader has accepted the idea of "serious restraint" in missiles.

Albright was going to Seoul, South Korea, on Wednesday to tell South Korean and Japanese officials about her talks with Kim. President Clinton is considering whether to visit North Korea himself.
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Diplomats offered no further elaboration of Kim's words in the meetings. Lower-level talks on missiles were planned for next week.

Many analysts are convinced North Korea already has the capacity to strike at the perimeter of the United States with a long-range missile.

That concern has been the main impetus for proposals to build a U.S. national missile defense system. North Korea already has agreed to freeze its nuclear weapons program and to stop selling missiles to regimes the United States considers hostile.

"Chairman Kim was quite clear in explaining his understanding of U.S. concerns," Albright said of her meetings, describing him as "a good listener and very decisive."

Albright said they also discussed security issues, terrorism, human rights and "the need for concrete steps toward tension reduction on the Korean peninsula."

Copyright The Chicago Sun-Times, Inc.

[BlueJ7]

Albright seeks global help for North Korean projects
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The, May 2, 1998 Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is seeking international donations to help pay for a civilian power reactor and diesel oil that were promised to North Korea in exchange for a freeze in its nuclear weapons program.

In South Korea on Friday, and earlier in Japan during a weeklong Asia trip, Albright talked to officials about the need to raise about $500 million to help pay for the $5 billion reactor and a minimum of $47 million to cover a debt on diesel purchases. Further deliveries the United States is committed to provide 500,000 metric tons a year will run that bill up.

If the reactor agreement founders, there is "grave risk" that North Korea will resume a program that the Pentagon said already had turned out at least one nuclear weapon, she said. "There should be no doubt we will fulfill an agreement as important as this," she said. She stressed the agreement "has prevented the emergence of a nuclear power." South Korea has pledged to pay for 70% of the reactor, and Japan 20%. That leaves 10%, or about $500 million, uncovered. Meanwhile, the Clinton administration is providing strong backing for the diplomacy South Korea is pursuing for peace and reunification on the peninsula. Praising President Kim Dae-jung as "one of the world's true champions of freedom," Albright endorsed his call for resuming the North-South dialogue that stalled last month and the government's drive for four-way peace talks that include the U.S. and China.