And your point is....
The point is Junior uses racist images in the South, whether he personally believes in them or not, and then tries to pretend he doesn't to other audiences. In other words he is a well practiced liar.
Just look at his pronouncements on the spread of weapons of mass destruction and compare them to his actions.
Bush rejects no-tolerance policy held by Clinton on nuclear facility.
By David E. Sanger
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Monday, December 30, 2002
CRAWFORD -- The Bush administration on Sunday backed away from a longstanding declaration that the United States would not tolerate a North Korean nuclear arsenal, as Secretary of State Colin Powell and other officials insisted that making demands of the government or threatening military action would be counter- productive.
Appearing on several Sunday TV talk shows, Powell refused to use the term "crisis" when referring to North Korea's expulsion of nuclear inspectors and its declaration that it would begin manufacturing plutonium from spent nuclear fuel, insisting instead that it was a "serious situation."
He acknowledged on ABC's "This Week" that the Clinton administration had "a declaratory policy" that if North Korea began to reactivate its nuclear facilities at Yongbyon, the country's main nuclear facility, "they would attack it."
"We don't have that policy," said Powell, who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President Clinton during the start of the previous North Korean nuclear crisis. "We're not saying what we might or might not do."
The administration's ambiguous signal to North Korea, made after lengthy consultations with President Bush at his ranch in Crawford, represents a major strategic gamble. The CIA has warned that once North Korea begins reprocessing spent nuclear fuel into plutonium, it could produce five or six weapons by early summer. It already has two, according to estimates.
But Bush and his aides have concluded that warning North Korea that it would not be allowed to produce more weapons would only create a sense of crisis, exactly what administration officials say North Korea seeks and what they want to avoid. Instead, the administration has opted to pursue further economic isolation of a country that is already one of the world's most isolated.
'This is a crisis'
The administration's position was met with considerable skepticism Sunday by Democrats and Republicans alike.
The Republican who is about to take over the chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Richard Lugar, declared on NBC's "Meet the Press" that "this is a crisis," and he was mildly critical of the administration for refusing to negotiate directly with the North Korean government.
But he welcomed Powell's announcement that the administration would work through the United Nations Security Council, saying that approach is "working in Iraq; it's got to work in Korea."
Several of Bush's national security aides said Powell was simply giving voice to the military reality that the United States has no effective way of protecting South Korea or Japan from a North Korean counterattack if the nuclear facilities at Yongbyon were bombed.
"I'm not saying we don't have military options," one of Bush's most senior advisers said. "I'm just saying we don't have good ones."
Still, the diplomatic, nonconfrontational approach the administration has taken has clearly put Bush's aides in the odd position of explaining why they are massing troops around Iraq as it lets inspectors roam the country and releases lists of weapons scientists, while insisting on patient diplomacy with a country that has expelled those inspectors and announced that it will proceed immediately to restart plutonium produc- tion.
Powell argued Sunday that the approach makes sense because intelligence officials believe that North Korea has probably been an undeclared nuclear power for some time but has never used any weapons or threatened to use them. Saddam Hussein, by contrast, has used chemical weapons before and, Powell argued, has demonstrated far more evil intent, seeking to dominate the Middle East.
Powell said repeatedly that the administration was willing to communicate with North Korea, even if it rejected direct talks. He seemed to suggest that messages would be sent through China and Russia, or through the North Korean mission to the United Nations.
But he insisted that North Korea would receive no benefits while its nuclear programs remained active.
"They want us to give them something for them to stop their bad behavior," he said. "What we can't do is enter into a negotiation right away where we are appeasing them."
Some administration officials concede that the argument for confronting Iraq militarily while slowly squeezing North Korea economically seems, in the words of one senior diplomat, "considerably harder to explain on TV than it was a month ago."
"The best you can say about it," he added, "is that North Korea is an example of why we cannot allow Saddam to hold onto his weapons of mass destruction. Because once he gets them, he'll have the same power to intimidate his neighbors that Kim Jong Il enjoys today," he said, referring to the North Korean leader.
Theories abound
There are several theories here and in Washington about the underlying strategy Bush is pursuing.
One is that he simply cannot afford a confrontation with North Korea when the United States is preparing for a possible war with Iraq. Powell, however, strongly argued that the United States was capable of handling both situations at once.
The second theory is that the administration has calculated that Kim, even if he adds to his nuclear arsenal, is essentially more predictable and less dangerous than Saddam, who has never successfully produced a nuclear bomb.
Powell made that argument Sunday.
"This is a country that's in desperate condition," he said. "What are they going to do with another two or three more nuclear weapons when they're starving, when they have no energy, when they have no economy that's functioning?"
For the Bush strategy to work, China and South Korea must go along, officials acknowledge, and for now both are balking. The Chinese fear that an economic crisis in North Korea will lead to a flood of starving refugees. The South Koreans fear that Bush's economic squeeze could lead to a collapse in North Korea and perhaps a political explosion
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