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To: michael97123 who wrote (146794)	10/1/2004 11:58:16 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) of 281500

<would you have direct talks with NK when there is a coalition of 5 nations directly affected in the middle of a negotiating process with NK? I dont get it.> This is an extremely serious issue. I mentioned it many times on this thread. Bush let two years go by -- two years -- in which North Korea went from being contained to being a country with nuclear weapons because Bush did not want bilateral talks. North Korea would not agree to multi-lateral talks, and finally agreed AFTER they had completed their first set of nukes and test-fired the medium range missiles that put the capitals of most of southeast asia within their range. This was the most stupid -- I a truly mean the most stupid -- and ideologically driven blunder I have ever in my life seen. Bush included North Korea on his axis of evil speech, prepared to invade Iraq and refused to do what was blatantly needed -- talk to North Korea immediately. Kerry is right -- we can have bilateral talks and should have them. The multilateral talks will NOT fall apart -- on the onctrary, they will be far more likely to bear fruit. Bush cost us and world more than we can begin to recover when he threatened North Korea and then refused to talk -- he set the stage for them to do exactly what we did not want them to do -- complete their nuclear and missile programs. If we attack North Korea now, it will be with the clear risk of killing tens of millions of people in a radioactive blood bath the likes of which this world has never seen. Make no mistake, the situation in North Korea is our second worst dream come true -- our fist is a series of small nukes coming in from loose nukes in the former Soviet Union. On North Korea, Bush has been a miserable failure.

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