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To: Jonty30

During WWII the Germans produced technically perfect counterfeit British pounds.

I have no idea how but the Bank of England caught them almost immediately.


37 posted on 04/18/2017 7:35:45 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: yarddog

In 1994, Clinton sent former President Jimmy Carter to North Korea to negotiate an Agreed Framework to keep a nuclear-free Korean peninsula. This was a little like Neville Chamberlain sending Stanley Baldwin to negotiate with Hitler. Appeasement squared.

The deal Carter negotiated gave North Korea everything it wanted in return for what would turn out to be more empty promises. The North got two brand new reactors and $5 billion in “aid” in return for their promise to quit seeking nuclear weapons.

Clinton jumped on this appeasement train and with a strong whiff of Chamberlain’s infamous “peace in our time” speech, saying the agreement brought “an end to the threat of nuclear proliferation on the Korean Peninsula.” For this profound failure, in which the North admitted in 2002 they had violated from the first day, Carter was thusly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize — a once relished prize that is now a progressive political farce.

George W. Bush’s appeasement

President Bush rightly identified North Korea as part of the “Axis of Evil” in 2002, which included Iran, Iraq and Libya — all of whom were tyrannies pursuing nuclear weapons. Bush recognized the growing threat, but in the end 9/11 forced his eyes off North Korea and on the Jihadist

http://drrichswier.com/2017/04/17/context-our-own-neville-chamberlains-led-to-north-korea-crisis/


38 posted on 04/18/2017 7:47:18 PM PDT by Calusa (Let our children be dreamers, too! Donald Trump (and Kellyanne Conway))
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To: yarddog

cause they were better than the real ones.


47 posted on 04/18/2017 9:16:29 PM PDT by Eternal_Bear
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To: yarddog

>caught them almost immediately.

not quite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bernhard


70 posted on 04/19/2017 9:35:41 AM PDT by RitchieAprile
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