Posted on 04/12/2007 10:14:39 AM PDT by Kitten Festival
Diplomacy: Bill Richardson got back from North Korea Wednesday with what he touted as a breakthrough in hand. Just one problem: The governor is a presidential candidate with interests that lie beyond diplomacy.
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Thank you for excerpting your material from IBD. With summer approaching, it’s a great relief to those of us back here who work next to the furnace.
He’s a traitor?
Because he went to North Korea as requested by President Bush?
Huh?
Yeah Richardson is a Traitor, he facilitated theft of the US nuclear secrets while in cahoots with his boss, BJC.
And he continues to get snookered, like the libtard he is. NoKos really punked this prick and they continue to punk the State Dept geeks and the rest of the idiot DC crowd.
Sounds like some rhetoric (in hand) associated with the other "Bill".
I started off in the Foxy camp and then switched to Kim.
... Experience tells us the Stalinist dictator would rather starve his people than give up nuclear weapons or allow them freedom. So naturally, he'd seek out a mediator who'd be an easy touch. He knows Richardson's from a rival party to Bush's, making it possible to take advantage of competing interests. For Kim, who better than a politician he's rolled before, back now with grand ambitions?That was the problem with Richardson's visit. Anyone with interests above those of diplomacy can't be expected to act solely in America's best interests.
The governor of New Mexico wants to be president. That gave him a vested interest in proclaiming the mission a success — whether it was or not. How could he return empty-handed, looking ineffectual on the world stage?
Richardson announced a breakthrough all right, but it was more a promise: Kim will shut his Yongbyon nuclear reactor not by Saturday's deadline, but in a less-certain "few days," as he said.
In return, Richardson gave up a tangible check against the regime: $25 million that is now frozen in Macau banks and that fuels the luxury lifestyle of North Korea's ruling elite.
But already that's falling apart, as North Korean officials, cash in hand, now say they'll shut the reactor in a month's time....
Richardson: Kim's bag man?
(IBD's photo description, not mine)
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