Posted on 04/05/2009 9:43:12 AM PDT by bimboeruption
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told Fox News Sunday that he would have disabled the long-range missile before North Korea launched it, saying too many people do not appreciate the scale of the threat that is evolving on the planet.
One morning, just like 9/11, theres going to be a disaster, Gingrich said. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.
Reacting to President Barack Obamas speech in Prague, Gingrich called the plan for a Global Summit on Nuclear Security a wonderful fantasy idea, saying Russia and other nations cant be trusted.
What are they going to promise, and why would we believe them? Gingrich said. Its very dangerous to have a fantasy foreign policy, and it can get you in enormous trouble.
Host Chris Wallace asked Gingrich: So youre saying that President Gingrich would have taken out that missile?
Gingrich replied: There are three or four techniques that could have been used, from unconventional forces to standoff capabilities, to say: Were not going to tolerate a North Korean missile launch, period. I mean, the worlds either got to decide that North Korea is utterly dangerous Id recommend, look at electromagnetic pulse, which changes every equation about how risky these weapons are.
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, appearing with Gingrich, said: In the countryside of South Carolina, at some point, youve got to back up words with action.
There have been a long series of
intentional steps on North Koreas part, and little in the way of actions from the standpoint of either America or the international community.
What a LEADER! Remember how he led the Republican Revolution?
Go back and hide in the Congressional cloakroom, you jerk.
Newt would have snatched the missile out of the air in mid flight with his mighty anal cavity and crushed it!
What are you talking about "Republican Revolution?" Newt certainly got the federal budget under control and was able to get a budget surplus from 1998 that lasted through 2001.
Newt was a sucker to Clinton. The moment the Monica Media pushed back against the '94 Republicans, they caved.
Newt has no ideas on how to overthrow them, so he just joins them.
Most recently on Global Warming (Pelosi), and health care (Clinton).
Looks like Newt is using liberal terminology to perhaps educate them? Not a bad strategy.
TheABL must be within a few hundred kilometers of the missile launch point.
Since the ABL could be flying over international waters and not observed by the North Korean surveillance radars the deed can be done and look like another old tech OOPS!
Newt Gingrich is a such smart guy with a lot great ideas but he’s way too irritating to become president. Plus, he needs to say these things before they happen, not after, so he doesn’t come across as an ankle biter.
LOL, Newt is a politician first, conservative second in my view, could be wrong. How would he ‘disable’ it, and what the heck would that accomplish?
Read R- Sen. Tom Coburn's book and find out how Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott set the stage for the Republicans to lose both houses of Congress.
No, Chuck Norris.
I’ve long advocated that certain dangerous things and places have “accidents”. Iran’s nuke facilities, for instance, need to have a nuclear “accident”.
An “accidental” failure of this launch would have been appropriate as well.
GO AWAY, NEWT !
Newt’s Conservatism is to Conserve Newt’s Political aspirations.
Slick Willie was more fiscally conservative than Bush. I have a hard time using the words "conservative" and "Bush" in the same sentence.
In 1995, Gingeich tried to push through some major reforms in government spending but he failed to educate the public. The Republican Contract With America proposed tax cuts and a balanced budget without naming any actual programs to be cut, so the Republicans failed.
If we can have satellite’s in space so can the N. Korean’s and that is what they did. Nothing happened, no countries were attacked and Newt would have been in the deliberate attack on another country.
We act sometimes like the sierra club where no one can have what we have as it will destroy the planet.
Silly, silly.
AND, Newt fails to see that reacting constantly eventually makes us co-dependents on the regimes pulling our chain.
Hey Newt, it’s easy to call ‘em from the bench , isn’t it?
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