[Pokey78]

[knighthawk]

Ping

[aruanan]

M.S. bump.

[RandyRep]

Let's see if I understand this - KJI of DPRK theatens war if we don't give him a non-aggression pact... The USA says that DPRK should abide by the treaties it has signed.

Should I hold my breath until Babs, Asner, Baldwin and the other peacekooks march off to Pyongyang to beg KJI for peace?

Nah - they'll complain about the USA threatening DPRK with all those modern weapons at the DMZ.

[Restorer]

I'm afraid I can't understand these guys whining about the delay. Read the weather statistics. Nobody in his right mind wants to fight in Iraq any time other than the winter. We'll probably invade just about the same time we did in Gulf War I.

[Iconoclast2]

"China . . . recently shipped 20 tons of tributyl phosphate to North Korea for extracting plutonium from their stockpile of spent reactor fuel"

If we had folks on the ball in DC, we'd blow up the tributyl phosphate shipment and deny any involvement. I.e., practical nonproliferation policy instead of State Department B.S.

[Wolfstar]

I could not agree more with Steyn's analysis in this piece. As much as I love and respect President Bush, I've got a sinking feeling that there will NOT be any war in Iraq to take out Saddam. The longer Blix, Anan, and the Leftists who infest the UN get to play in their sandbox, the weaker the case for war appears to the general public. By all accounts, the president chose to take Colin Powell's route through the UN. I increasingly fear it may have been a massive mistake. In any event, I sure don't see Powell working very hard to push the UN to do the right thing.

[The Great Satan]

The time to stop Saddam is before he gets nukes.

Saddam doesn't need nukes. He already has anthrax, and is therefore quite invulnerable, unfortunately. There is just no getting around that reality.

[Imal]

If I read this article aright, we'd better have the CIA keep an eye on the comings and goings of Long Dong Silver.

[US admirer]

Steyn & Krauthammer's words in the same article- simply the best two conservative columnists alive! And how about that, both are Canadian! EH?

[Anoy11_]

Best Line: If Psycho Boy really feels the need to fire his Dong at someone, Tokyo or Vancouver would be far more interesting targets: how would a non-nuclear power respond? A strong resolution at the UN? What would Long Duck Dong say about all this?

[merak]

Well, Baghdad’s been on the back burner for a year now. The war has lost all momentum and both America’s serious enemies and her knockabout disparagers have been emboldened. If Saddam had been toppled to the cheers of a grateful populace last spring, among other consequences Yasser would be out of office...

The guy makes it sound like we could have done it last spring. My own read is that we didn't have the inventory to do it. Basically, Clinton had sold off too much of our military inventory for DNC donations.

Last spring I called a guy about some question regarding a barrel for a target rifle and the guy told me he didn't have time for any sort of civilian firearm business just then, that he was working 24-hour days and seven day weeks making machinegun barrels. The United States was basically out of machinegun barrels. That's a simple basic item which we should have warehouses full of. A machinegun can only fire a couple of hundred shots before you switch the barrel and let the one you just used cool off. A machinegun crew consists of the gunner, a guy to load ammo belts, and a third guy to change barrels. The idea of the United States having run out of machinegun barrels is unbelievable. It's also unbelievable that the Bush administration has somehow or other gotten our inventories up enouth to do something for Iraq in the short time he's had. He inherited a total unbelievable mess.

[Helms]

The American and European medias, NOT TO FORGET THE HOLLYWEIRDOS AND USEFUL IDIOTS- I CALL SCORCESE THIS- live in a parrelell universe where none of this is "REALLY" happening.

[MEGoody]

Sure N. Korea is a problem - but they haven't been ignoring/violating UN resolutions for more than a decade. This is a recent development, and it is wise to attempt to work it out diplomatically first. With Saddam, we've tried that for a very long time. It's time to act.

[facedown]

While I greatly admire Steyn as a writer, I trust W a whole lot more in the deployment of our military. Thanks for the ping.

[Paul Ross]

[Gritty]

A Steyn BUMP!

[Allan]

Bump

[beckett]

Take a look at a satellite picture of the peninsula by night: South Korea ablaze in electric light, the North in darkness.

OK, Mark, we will:

North Korea at Night

[JohnHuang2]

Thanks for the ping, friend =^)