Carl Levin (Lenin), is currently on C-Span2 hammering Rumsfeld and Meyers on missle defense. He is a worthless POS.
"ThankYou BeelzeBubba For Eight-Years Of Peace"!(excuse me,I have to go to the bathroom)!!!
I wrote to NewsMax about these articles - so they finally looked through their archives. Here's their version today:
http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2003/2/13/101734
North Korean ICBM 'Shocker' Known Since 1999
Like Capt. Renault in the movie classic "Casablanca," mainstream journalists are pretending to be "shocked, shocked!" this morning to discover that North Korea has intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons to the United States.
And by some accounts, the Bush administration's claim yesterday that this development is old news is just disingenuous White House spin.
But Bush officials are correct, and there's a paper trail that backs them up. In fact, news that North Korea had ICBMs capable of reaching across the Pacific dates back to at least 1999, a full two years before Bill Clinton left the White House.
It's just that at the time, journalists decided not to report on Pyongyang's newfound missile capabilities. Such news, after all, would have torpedoed Clinton administration claims that their diplomacy had succeeded in ending North Korea's nuclear threat.
But a 1999 congressional study warned: "North Korea can now strike the United States with a missile that could deliver high explosive, chemical, biological, or possibly nuclear weapons. Currently, the United States is unable to defend against this threat."
The bombshell news was released in a report by the House North Korea Advisory Group, which was chaired by Rep. Benjamin A. Gilman, R-N.Y. Members of the panel included Rep. Doug Bereuter, R-Neb., then chairman of the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific; Rep. Porter J. Goss, R-Fla., chairman of Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; and Rep. Christopher Cox, R-Calif., then chairman of the Republican Policy Committee.
As NewsMax.com reported last October, their report warned:
"In the last five years, North Korea's missile capabilities have improved dramatically. North Korea has produced, deployed and exported missiles to Iran and Pakistan, launched a three-stage missile [Taepo Dong 1], and continues to develop a larger and more powerful missile [Taepo Dong 2].
"Unlike five years ago, North Korea can now strike the United States with a missile that could deliver high explosive, chemical, biological, or possibly nuclear weapons. Currently, the United States is unable to defend against this threat."
The report also featured a bar graph that showed a direct correlation between increases in Clinton administration aid and North Korea's enhanced ICBM capacity.
The Advisory Group contended that under the Clinton administration, North Korea had become "the largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid in the Asia-Pacific region."
"In an astonishing reversal of nine previous U.S. administrations, the Clinton-Gore administration, in 1994, committed not only to provide foreign aid for North Korea, but to earmark that aid primarily for the construction of nuclear reactors worth up to $6 billion," the House report noted.
---and they didn't even say thanks :>(
A locator ^... I finally replaced my backup 66mhtz PC with a 200mhtz Gateway from the 1996 era- I'll pick this post up on the better PC when my wife's done with it.
