[Registered]

U.S. media blackout on this or what?

[Registered]

flag.

[RnMomof7]

Incredible..unbelievable...what else do we say??

[Kobyashi1942]

Each day that passes Bush acts more and more like Clinton.

[Ahban]

Just what I need to hear around April 15th.

[Blackyce]

Well I guess we could encourage them to get their nuclear reactors up and running again...

[Governor StrangeReno]

axle falling of the axis bump

[Squantos]

Now I'm pissed...........can this story be true ?!?!??!?!

[piasa]

Ambassador William Clark, former United States Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and the Pacific

Is this guy one of Clinton's former ambassadors or what? If he is a former ambassador appointed by Clinton, there's a good chance this is just digested and ejected granola.

I found one William Clark who is a member of this, I believe: "Carnegie Endowment for International Peace." Doesn't sound too objective.

And I found this on what I think is the same guy:

October 23, 1998
William Clark, President, The Japan Society, former Ambassador to India and Egypt, and former Deputy Chief of Mission , U.S. Embassy in Tokyo

So far nothing current so I don't know if he is a current amvbassador to anything.

[Darth Sidious]

Curious that the Kool-Aid Drinkers(tm) haven't come by to explain this one away yet...

[dalebert]

Think I will check around and find out what the truth is . I am not going to form an opinion on one article.

[Mortimer Snavely]

Calling this ill-advised is an understatement, to say the least.

[ArneFufkin]

WERDEN: Washington has described its decision to waive the inspection requirement for this year only, as vital to its national security interests, in so doing it's giving North Korea another chance at making the agreement work.

CHANG: "Abandoning this project might cause very considerable impact on the overall security situation in South Korean peninsula which is not easy to anybody to deal with. So peace and stability is at stake so abandoning this project immediately causes will bring about tension and possibly confrontation between the two sides."

These explanations deserve scrutiny. Does anyone know anything about this program? It sounds like one of those Kumbaya joint economic cooperative efforts between adversaries that only a brilliant mind like Madeline Albright and the dope smokers in the Clinton White House could conceive. There could be no anticipation that Stone Age North Korea would fall behind schedule on their part of the program.

[Centurion2000]

I'm pretty sure that the US has completely lost it's collective freakin mind.

The ONLY thing that I can think that Bush is doing is some really nicely played diplomacy : "Saying nice doggie while looking for a REALLY big stick"

[janette]

I have do admit, I didn't read the entire thread, but what I realy do believe is, that this President is acting very smart, due to his very very good advisers. It's well known, that poverty brings lots of social uproar and revolution. By help from "rich" countries to the "poor" it might be a first step to bring these nations to a better start. It's actually called, "Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe" (I don't know how to translate, I will try) It's like helping those countries to help theireself. Education is the basic of everything. So, when people have to eat, the next thing they think about is having schools. Education is so importand. Why is the "west" so much more developed, than the "East"? Schools, Education!!! So let us not critizise money given to North-Korea, these people eat dirt, to have something in their stomage. If we share at least food and knowledge, the world will be a better place! I, at least hope so and it sounds somehow logical. Of cource it must be for sure, that those governments don't use this money for military reasons, but I think, that's part of smart interogations. (Sorry about my English, in German I'm a lot better!)

[Captainpaintball]

"If you are not with us...you are with the terrorists. And if you are with the terrorists, then you are... with the terrorists. Except if you want to give extremely large sums of money to the terrorists. Then it's OK. Trust me. It's complicated. You wouldn't understand. I don't think I understand either, but my handlers tell me it's the right thing to do..."

--Excerpt from the ORIGINAL DRAFT of George W. Bush's State of The Union Address September 20, 2001

[brat]

Our tax dollars at work.............I'd like to believe I'm dreaming and will awaken to find Clinton is still in office.

[jungleboy]

Bush's ACTIONS are bottom of the barrell politics. He's ALL TALK.