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To: michael97123 who wrote (147081)	10/6/2004 9:14:35 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Lets start with North Korea -- for 2 years Bush refused to engage in direct 2-way talks with North Korea. The result? No talks were held for 2 years, during which time the situation in North Korea went from serious to critical. Instead, we lamely insisted on 6 way talks -- and the result? Nothing. We needed 2 way talks and we still do. Bush made a direct threat against North Korea -- a rogue nation in every sense of the word, and one given to policies that can directly harm us in the worst way. To make a threat and then leave them for years to go about their business of perfecting and building their nuclear weapons and weapons delivery systems is such a serious form of negligence that Bush should be ashamed to even pretend to have protected the national security interests during the term of his Presidency. Two way talks continue to be essential. We are fools to avoid directly engaging North Korea -- fools because we have nothing to lose and everything to gain by getting closer to North Korea. Getting past their bizarre isolation is half the battle -- Bush lost that battle by refusing to engage them and by using proxies instead.

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