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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (52033)	10/11/2006 3:12:35 PM
From: Suma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Here is a counter post just to be fair. Albeit I don't agree with McCain... who would of thought.... (:) New York Daily News - nydailynews.com Nuclear North is Bill's fault, McCain tells Hil BY KATHLEEN LUCADAMO DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Wednesday, October 11th, 2006 In a surprise attack, Sen. John McCain told Sen. Hillary Clinton yesterday it was her husband's fault - not the fault of President Bush - that North Korea may now have a nuclear bomb. The blast from McCain may be the first shot between the two likely presidential contenders. McCain (R-Ariz.) issued his statement yesterday after Sen. Clinton (D-N.Y.) noted that six years ago North Korea's Kim Jong Il had no nukes and called Bush's policies on North Korea a "failure." She said it "raises questions, serious questions about the Bush foreign policy." "I would remind Sen. Clinton," McCain said, "that the framework agreement [with North Korea] of the Clinton administration was a failure." "The Koreans received millions of dollars in energy assistance. They diverted millions in food assistance to the military. And what did the Koreans do? They secretly enriched uranium," McCain charged. The Clinton policy, he said, "only encouraged bad behavior." Sen. Clinton and other Democrats have argued that Bush inherited a solid framework for dealing with North Korea. U.S. negotiators persuaded North Korea to freeze its nuclear program in 1994 in exchange for help easing the country's acute energy shortage. In 2000, then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright even traveled to the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, and gleeful GOP operatives are emphasizing the Clinton policy by distributing video on the Web of a smiling Albright presenting Kim with a basketball signed by Michael Jordan. The Bush administration caught the North Koreans cheating on the deal in 2002 and secretly trying to enrich uranium. "There is no doubt that the North Koreans used the cover of the framework agreement to pursue a different path to a nuclear weapon through highly enriched uranium," Secretary of State Rice told CNN yesterday. A spokesman for former President Bill Clinton, Ben Yarrow, defended his record on North Korea. The Clinton approach "has been turned on its head. ... It is unfortunate that anyone would attempt to rewrite history to score political points at a time when we need to address this serious threat," Yarrow said. Sen. Clinton's spokesman Philippe Reines said, "History is clear that nothing the Bush administration has done has stopped the North Koreans from openly testing a nuclear weapon." It is the second time in recent weeks that Republicans have blamed an embarrassing international development on former President Clinton. The GOP enraged him recently by suggesting he booted the chance to kill or capture terror czar Osama Bin Laden, who is still at large. Sens. McCain and Clinton, possible presidential opponents in 2008, have avoided attacking each other directly - until now. By defending the President, McCain is demonstrating his loyalty to Bush and conservative principles, according to Larry Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "He is trying to balance his real nature as a maverick with what is needed to get nominated," Sabato said.