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To: bentway who wrote (306162)	10/12/2006 11:41:11 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576949

Bush can be a bit absolutist at times, but I don't think that is a good general description of how he acts. I'm not necessarily endorsing Bush's current response. I just dispute the idea that a response like Clinton's would be more effective. By some estimates the North Koreans had already produced enough enriched uranium to produce at least a few bombs by the time Bush called them on the fact that their nuclear program was still active. Continuing the Clinton approach would have been putting our heads in the sand and pretending that there was not problem. The NK's only limited themselves to the uranium enrichment because they thought they could get away with it, not because they felt committed to principles and ideas negotiated with Clinton. Bush didn't remove restrictions that Clinton had put in place, in reality there were no effective restrictions, only an (eventually failed) attempt at stealth.