Someone posted this earlier on a related thread...It's needed here
As a staunch conservative, I favor a full military withdraw from the Korean Penisula. President Truman went to war without any consent from Congress and later said that authorization by the United Nations was enough, however, as being fiercly anti-communist, I find myself sometimes conflicted. We're techincally still at war with North Korea, with some 38,000 troops still on the 38th parallel. I believe the United States should simply cut all relations with North Korea, including diplomatic, place a complete economic embargo, and sell nuclear arms to South Korea to provide a real deterrent. Amazingly, I still see and hear guys in three piece suits, with college degrees, telling us as "experts" that we need "diplomacy" or "dialogue" with a member of the axis of evil.
What? No mention of how Clinton essentially funded the whole debacle?
Who are these talking heads talking to? Do they think that they are actually giving us the news? I thought today Rush was right on. "Do not allow these people on TV to question our judgements" Turn off the TV and Vote Vote Vote.
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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!
The only progress made during the Clintoon reign was North Korean progress to developing nukes.
Love to see Andrea smile and gush over liberals when she interviews them and scowl when she does anything about conservatives or republicans.
Stupid schill bitch.
"You know Bill Clinton and Madeleine Albright were progressing in October and November of 2000 towards the restoration of diplomatic relations and if the Democrats had won that election that probably would've happened."
Well, I'll say one thing...my opinion of Andrea Mitchell has been lowered quite a bit...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h3GPc_yMCE
Folk NBC.
Someone posted this earlier on a related thread...It's needed here
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!
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...
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
NBC has it exactly bass-akwards. The Clinton regime ruined it for everyone else.
http://www.drudgereport.com/flashma.htm
The Youtube video on the Dimms
Somebody save it!
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."
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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.
typical MSM rewrite of the clintoon legacy.