[goldstategop]

It was a Clinton deal. Why the Bush Administration is pushing forward with it is beyond me. And Communists are the last people on earth who can be seduced with a bribe and the North Korean Commies make the Soviets look moderate in comparison.

[Kerberos]

And so the Bush doctrine continues to erode.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

This deal was cooked up at the State Department, an outfit with a worse track record than the CIA.

[toenail]

Ping. (I can't find your graphic for this.)

[niki]

But even the eager-to-talk diplomats couldn't ignore Pyongyang's refusal to open up its nuclear facilities to international inspection. That was a condition of the 1994 Agreed Framework, the Clinton-era attempt to bribe the North into ending its nuclear weapons program by the offer of the two light-water reactors. Instead, the diplomats skated over this fundamental requirement, referring simply to the need for "North Korea to move forward with steps needed to begin full cooperation" on the issue.

Our government seems to be full of suicidal wimps

[Enemy Of The State]

Sure, why not? whats another shot in the foot?