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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: steve harris who wrote (72888)7/21/2006 10:57:28 PM
From: American Spirit  Read Replies (1) of 173976
 
True. NK started cheating, but they were still in a box with inspectors watching, and we had leverage with them. The Clinton policy on NK, while imperfect, did keep them from becoming an imminent threat. That much is clear.

But since Bush came into power and broke off all communications with NK they have reportedly produced many bombs, or could have. We really don't know. And the longer we keep dis-engaged the greater the risk, including NK possibly tryinug to sell a bomb to a terrorist organization.

What's clear now is that Bushies made a huge mistake disenaging with North Korea and threatening them with the Axis Of Evil speech. That move got the inspectors kicked out and their nuclear bomb program accelerated. Plus, we have no intel on them, so we're flying blind.

The same is true with Iran except there's even more tension there as our destabilization of Iraq has greatly strengthened Iran and its most extremist elements. And we have almost no military options against Iran or North Korea. Iraq was the easy one of the three, and look at the mess that's turned into. Just an awful-awful mess. No hope or law and order there at all really. It's a real crisis. Much worse than when Saddam was in power.
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