Posted on 02/02/2002 7:49:21 PM PST by ATOMIC_PUNK
WASHINGTON: North Korea yesterday blustered that it was on the brink of war with the US after President George W. Bush renewed his attacks on the "axis of evil" of so-called rogue states.
Mr Bush again labelled Iran, Iraq and North Korea the world's most dangerous regimes, warning they could face US action and prompting speculation about where the war on terror would lead after Afghanistan.
His warning, raised first in his State of the Nation address on Tuesday, drew an angry reaction from Muslim countries throughout the Middle East. But the most blunt message response came from North Korea. A spokesman for strongman Kim Jong Il said the nation was ready for war and had been wise to develop "powerful offensive and defensive means". We are sharply watching the disturbing moves of the United States that have pushed the situation to the brink of war," the Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
As the secretive communist regime's propaganda machine went into overdrive, North Korean state media said US warplanes had carried out scores of reconnaissance flights in recent weeks in preparation for an attack. The spokesman said Mr Bush's speech was "little short of declaring a war".
Undaunted by the strength of the reaction in the Middle East to his speech, Mr Bush reiterated his accusations against the three countries and warned that Washington was ready to act. He said all three nations were developing weapons of mass destruction. "They need to know our intention is to hold them accountable and the rest of the world needs to be with us, because these weapons can be pointed at them as easily as at us," he said. Iran, which Washington describes as the main state sponsor of terror ism, called Mr Bush -thirsty for human blood", while the Iraqi regime of Sad Hussein branded him "stupid, arrogant and irresponsible".
Former secretary o state Madeleine Albrigh also condemned the "axis of evil" speech, calling it "big mistake". She said many in the international community believed the US h "lost its mind" because of the way Mr Bush handled foreign policy. "I think it was a big mistake to lump those three countries together," she said. "They are very different from each other." That warning risked alienating foreign allies she said. We know that they are (already) not supportive of what we are doing in lraq or Iran or North Korea, so I don't know what the value is." But US officials said there were no plans for, any military action against the three countries. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the US was not about to open three more fronts in the war against terror now centred on Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, in New York, US Secretary of State Colin Powell yesterday urged world leaders to crush the cause of terrorism by stamping out poverty. Speaking at the World Economic Forum, Mr Powell said' We have to go after poverty, we have to go after despair." AFP
Main Entry: Am.mon
Pronunciation: 'a-m&n
Usage: geographical name
ancient country NW Arabia E of Gilead capital Rabbah
Main Entry: Am.man
Pronunciation: ä-'män, a-, -'man
Variant(s): or ancient Philadelphia or biblical Rab.bah Am.mon /'ra-b&-'a-m&n/; or Rab.bath Am.mon /'ra-b&th/
Usage: geographical name
city capital of Jordan, NE of Dead Sea population 1,213,300
Main Entry: Rabbah Ammon, Rabbath Ammon
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He was ranting about Dubya's "beady little eyes" called him "Satan's left hand man" said he worships Satan and then said Bush and Ashcroft would torture people for laughs.
FR did not lose a serious Bush critic here and, imo he may have mailed Mr. Robinson and asked to be deleted because no one would take him seriously. (is it any wonder?)
Britannia rules the waves! But instead: 'The seas for the Union!'
It is harder to attack the gigantic American colossus of states with the enormous wealth of its virgin soil than the wedged-in German Reich.
---Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
I can see where common sense might give one that impression.. But, believe me if you read the replies to Ammon.. It's as bad as it looks.
Maybe he was drinking or something and he will be back tomorrow. But he sure went off the deep end tonight.
Didn't even notice till the other poster mentioned he was gone.
He also said that "Bush's Compassionate Conservatism is the same as Hitler's National Socialism", as closely as I can remember it. I imagine that this was going just a bit over the top, don't you think?
Talking about how a large country like Russia could "absorb" an attack. Implied they could use their vast land mass to draw an army in.
Kind of ironic in light of the way things played out, eh?
Hitler had a lot of nice things to say about America, and also about Great Britain. As you said, Mein Kampf, in its international sections, was about getting lebesraum in the east, and didn't talk about fighting Britain or the US. If this is evidence that he didn't have designs on us, I guess that it is proof that he never attacked the British either, right?
Actually his early post, #2, is still there. I guess they removed him and all of his later posts. You can check out how bad he was when he started. It didn't get any better, let me tell you.
Yep, I guess that if he had reread his own book, he would have stopped after taking Czechoslovakia, Poland, France, and Scandinavia, and his regime would still be running Europe. Entertaining thought, no? I guess that our Islamic friends, like Osama would like it, since there would also be no Israel.
I think he looked at America as something to emulate, in his own way. He saw the strength that America derived from its large mass, and felt that Germany needed to increase its area in order to attain that type of power.
His comments about colonial powers seems to suggest that Germany's destiny (and future greatness) resided in expanding Germany's national borders, and not through colonialism.
His comments about colonial powers seems to suggest that Germany's destiny (and future greatness) resided in expanding Germany's national borders, and not through colonialism.
Although he babbled on and on about God given this and the Right of a country that, I got the impression that overall he took a very simple, darwinistic view of statehood.
I don't think he deeply admired anyone or anything much besides his "Fatherland"
I think he looked at America as something to emulate, in his own way. He saw the strength that America derived from its large mass, and felt that Germany needed to increase its area in order to attain that type of power.
His comments about colonial powers seems to suggest that Germany's destiny (and future greatness) resided in expanding Germany's national borders, and not through colonialism.
Kind of contradicts himself here doesn't he? Germany was surrounded by civilized nations. Even Czarist Russia was civilized, if backwards. So where was Germany to expand it's borders, without dominating other countries as a colonial power? By filling in the Baltic Sea? Somehow I just don't think that Hitler's plans were based on imitating the Netherlands.
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