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To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (61303)12/12/2002 12:17:42 PM
From: zonder  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 281500
 
this right here is a more flagrant violation on the part of North Korea than anything we've gotten on Iraq since the mise en scene of the whole Shrub and Saddam soap opera

I don't see that worrying our happy little group of GIs here. Haven't you noticed? The list is already typed - after Iraq comes Saudi Arabia and Iran...



To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (61303)12/12/2002 1:11:37 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
but that this right here is a more flagrant violation on the part of North Korea than anything we've gotten on Iraq since the mise en scene of the whole Shrub and Saddam soap opera.

First, I don't see how. North Korea is officially allowed to sell Scuds to whom it pleases, though this may not please us. It's the nuclear weapons program that broke the treaty with the US. Second, North Korea has artillery that can level Seoul, nuclear weapons (probably), and we cannot move in the area without China's consent. China seems totally tied up in internal politics right now. Furthermore, the fruitcake who runs North Korea does not have a history of external aggression, just mind-boggling internal human rights abuses.

So what course of action would you recommend to the Bush administration?