Posted on 02/03/2010 4:20:45 PM PST by Baladas
President Barack Obama told congressional leaders Wednesday that he would keep North Korea off of a list of state sponsors of terror.
Obama said in a leader to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the president of the Senate -- technically Vice President Joe Biden -- that he had concluded that the government of North Korea "does not meet the statutory criteria to again be designated as a state sponsor of terrorism."
North Korea was removed from the state sponsor list in the waning days of President George W. Bush's time in office. Bush, who had labeled the nation a member of his "Axis of Evil" earlier in his administration, removed the communist government in exchange for a freeze on Korea's nuclear weapons development.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
More weapons-grade stupidity from Obama and the Democrats.
The Keystone Cops are in charge of our security.
Oh yeah, Dear Reader is scared to piss off Dear Leader. What a SOS we have for a so-called “president”.
Jimmy Carter on Russian invasion of Afghanistan, 1979, “That one event taught me more about the Soviet Union than any other thing in my life..”
Hmm...wonder what it will take to get Obummer to “understand” the DPRK....?
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