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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ed Huang who wrote (5675)	2/6/2003 12:13:33 AM
From: Ed Huang	Respond to of 25898

The Real Reason for the nervousness of the Bush administration about the N. Korea nuclear program _An observation. Several weeks ago when the U.S. was busy beating the war drum against Iraq, the N. Korea suddenly declared to the U.S. that it had nuclear weapons. Which caught Bushies in great surprise and shocks. Soon after that, Rumsfeld issued a warning to N. Korea and told it not to miscalculate the U.S. ability, U.S. could win wars in two fronts at the same time. What happened afterwards was N. Korea stepped up its threats to Bushies. And Bush’s trademark arrogance was totally disappeared and busy calling China and Russia for helps and told N. Korea that U.S. was willing to solve the problem peacefully and resume economic aid to the country. The little Kim Jong Il’s nose was in the air this time. He responded to Bush with kicking out the UN nuclear inspectors and withdrawing from the nuclear nonproliferation treaty and speeding up the nuclear weapon productions. Interestingly, from time to time, Bush warns Saddam the time is running out and at the mean time Kim warns Bush his patient is running out. At one point during the crisis, the Bushies pretended they did not care about the crisis by claiming that the N. Korea nuclear problem was not really America’s problem but someone else’ problem. Which could be quite true that was not really the America’s problem, and also true that it was “someone” else’ problem. BUT, “someone” that the Bushies have the top responsibility for. Well, Bushies showed that they could not stay calm for long had to move and coped with the issue again. Questions: Why the Bush Administration, with 10,000 nuclear warheads in the arsenal, appears much more nervous about the small N. Korea nuclear weapons than the N. Korea’s neighboring countries like S. Korea and Japan do? Why the little Kim’s nose is in the air while big cowboy Bush is so humble? And Question: Well, if N. Korea sold its nuclear weapon or the technologies to Iran, Syria or Saudi Arabia, what would happen to the Middle East ally’s safety and the “Greater Israel” endeavor? Rumsfeld's remark today further confirmed the point, when he said North Korea was developing material that "in a relatively short period of time" would let it make six to eight more nuclear weapons in addition to the one or two it probably had. Those could be sold, with ballistic missiles, to "terrorist states or terrorist organizations," he said. And obviously, Kim sees what's going on in the U.S. and make good use of it.