Posted on 10/23/2007 5:14:25 PM PDT by dervish
Over the last few weeks, State Department officials have reported major diplomatic breakthroughs that will roll back North Korea's nuclear weapons program, allow Pyongyang to be removed from the U.S. state sponsors of terror list, and normalize relations between our two countries.
North Korea reportedly has agreed to disable its nuclear facilities and has, as it has done many times before, promised to give a full accounting of its nuclear program. The latest deadline is Dec. 31, 2007. Congress has been asked to support this agreement, which State Department officials claim will benefit our nation and promote regional stability.
Then, early last month, Israel conducted an airstrike against a facility in northern Syria that press reports have linked to nuclear programs by North Korea, Iran or other rogue states. If this event proves that Syria acquired nuclear expertise or material from North Korea, Iran or other rogue states, it would constitute a grave threat to international security for which Syria and any other involved parties must be held accountable.
Bush administration, however, has thrown an unprecedented veil of secrecy around the Israeli airstrike. It has briefed only a handful of very senior members of Congress, leaving the vast majority of foreign relations and intelligence committee members in the dark. We are among the very few who were briefed, but we have been sworn to secrecy on this matter. However, we are prepared to state, based on what we have learned, that it is critical for every member of Congress to be briefed on this incident...
'snip'
Until Congress is fully briefed, it would be imprudent for the administration to move forward with agreements with state proliferators. Congress must be a full partner in this process and, from this point forward, must be kept dutifully and currently informed about this matter.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
If these people want to know what happened, then they should run for President. Otherwise, they need to STFU.
I can’t get access to the article. Can you post the entire text?
ditto- I am sick to death of the WSJ and other media being used by “unnamed sources” to backbrief Congress and every other Joe on the street about classsified intelligence issues
Pete Hoekstra- stick a sock in it
Can North Korea be trusted?
Answer: NO
South Korea’s appeasement government is already in full kiss up mode to the North.
I assume our government has an expedient reason for dealing this way on a deal that means very little or nothing.
To keep China happy and on course for dealing with Iran, maybe.
But North Korea is still North Korea after its all said and done.
They are up to dirty dealing and our dealing will allow them to keep their dirty dealing system in business for some time to come.
North Korea will be creating trouble and maybe even more deadly weapons of mass destruction in the future.
you have mail.
any one else need mail?
Tell Congress?
By definition Congress is a conspiracy.
I need mail........
Yes, please.
I need mail. :)
EVERYBODY needs to know about the Syria-North Korea - Iranian - Iraq nuclear projects.
Because those are the ones that will kill us.
But Bush won’t tell - And I don’t know why - other than Israeli operational secrecy (sources, methods, actual attacks planning. The rest?
It MUST be loudly told. Because the MSM will refuse to write or talk about ANYTHING that shows the “war on terror” is real, is being won, and is being being won by a republican instead of a surrender monkey. (Er, democrat/socialist/internationalist/communist/liberal - but I repeat myself.)
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Sure, mail me.
Odd that nobody out there is talking about it... the quiet is a little weird..
You must wait to be briefed.
I could use a little mail, if you have some to spare
I honestly see the quiet around this as more telling than what may have actually happened.
The most interesting thing I read about this was that the Israelis basically made blind, dumb and deaf several hundred million dollars worth of “State of the Art” Russsian AA missle defenses. What they actually did when they dis so is a matter of great conjecture. The Iranians apparently bought several hundred million dollars of the same system and are passing bricks after morning prayers over the seeming obsolesence of those systems.
I’m thinking, conjecture wise, that there was a stockpile of former Iraqi munitions of a “special” nature being protected by said systems. I also believe that the DPRK had “observers” or “technical experts” in the area and something big, nasty, dirty and extremely biologically unfriendly came out of that raid.
Whatever happened, I think it’s much bigger than any of us can guess and would make Dale Brown and Tom Clancy novels seem very real indeed.
Oh yes, please. I LOVE mail!
Frank
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