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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: i-node who wrote (519783)10/10/2009 2:54:22 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 1574489
 
" Yes, Bush ultimately failed to deal with NK in the end, but early on the rhetoric was anything but empty."

Right. He started blustering, NK took all the seals off and restarted their reactor and built and tested 2 nuclear bombs with the plutonium that was under seal. In response he did, nothing. Well, ok. He had an agreement brokered that was almost identical to the one you label as doing 'massive damage'. I think 'failed' pretty much understates the situation. Given that nothing was done but return the situation to what it was before he started to shoot his mouth off, with the added ingredient that NK has built and tested nuclear weapons, well...

The Iraq War, whether you're a supporter or opponent, had a significant Iran component."

I have noticed with amusement how the Iraq War was sort of a Swiss Army knife. When it failed to do the things it was supposed to do, all of these other 'reasons' seemed to have crawled out of the woodwork. This is the latest.

What did we do with respect to Iran over the past 8 years? Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Which seems pretty empty to me....
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