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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (155992)	12/11/2002 1:17:49 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576865

So you think Bush is overly belligerent w/ Iraq, yet underly belligerent with North Korea. Not very consistent, Ted, except in your desire to paint anything Bush does as bad. Simply pointing out the double standard. Besides, when is the last time we caught missiles being shipped from Iraq to another country? More importantly, when is the last time we've seen Iraq exchange nuclear info with another country? What we should be getting out of this current mess is that we don't have the authority nor the capability of going after all the troublemakers in the world, particularly the dictators of Iraq, N. Korea, Pakistan et al. Better to go after the ones that present an immediate physical threat to the US like Al Qaeda. However, Bush doesn't get that and what he is doing is elevating the regional dictators like Saddam into global ones. Single handedly, he is making the US their target where in the past they were more concerned with the Kuwaits and the S. Koreas. God forbid, they should decide to unite and go after us. ted

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (155992)	12/11/2002 1:18:44 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576865

Scud Missiles Heading to Yemen SAN'A, Yemen (Dec. 11) - The United States and Yemen faced off Wednesday as American naval forces held a missile shipment seized in the Arabian Sea, then released it at the demand of the Yemeni government. Forces from the amphibious assault ship USS Nassau had been aboard the detained vessel since Tuesday awaiting orders on what to do with it and the weapons, Pentagon officials said. The United States released the vessel and its cargo of North Korean-made Scud missiles after high-level consultations between the two countries, officials said. ``There is no clear authority to seize the shipment ... the merchant vessel is being released,'' White House spokesman Ari Fleischer told a press conference. U.S. officials had said the shipment of missiles and missile parts violated an agreement Yemen made with the United States not to buy such equipment from North Korea, which Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld has called the worst missile proliferator in the world. A Yemeni official told The Associated Press in San'a that Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Kerbi summoned U.S. Ambassador Edmund J. Hull to protest the seizure and ask for the return of the equipment, which was planned for ``defensive purposes.'' The Spanish military stopped the ship Monday, sailing without a flag designating its country of origin but with what appeared to be a North Korean crew. The move came after intelligence officials watched the vessel for weeks as part of an interdiction operation that is part of the U.S.-led war on terrorism. 12/11/02 12:58 EST Copyright 2002 The Associated Press.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (155992)	12/11/2002 1:30:46 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576865

So you think Bush is overly belligerent w/ Iraq, yet underly belligerent with North Korea. Not very consistent, Ted, except in your desire to paint anything Bush does as bad. The truth, which I don't hear ANY conservative pointing out, is that we have NO CHOICE but to be underly belligerent with NK because they now have nukes (thanks to the Clinton administration). The entire picture changed after they got the bomb.