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To: combjelly who wrote (386340)	5/25/2008 6:28:40 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574879

"The deal was incompetent from the outset. " In what way? They cheated on the program. Period, end of story. Yes, it may (stress MAY) have reduced the number of plutonium weapons they have. But it allowed them to cheat, creating a uranium enrichment program. They should not have been allowed to do that, and they should not have been allowed to build even a reduced number of plutonium weapons, which was Clinton's, not Bush's, fault. I dunno, your objection seems to be that you didn't like it but can't really put your finger on the reason. I'm opposed to appeasement in any form. Ever. It did what it was supposed to do. It stopped NK from developing plutonium bombs. It slowed the process but allowed them to have the enrichment program. Gallucci, on Frontline, said basically that "Trust but Verify" doesn't work, and you have to settle for "not trusting and taking whatever verification they could get. Wel, that's freaking stupid. You don't do deals that way. "Clinton administration officials have admitted privately that they agreed to the '94 plan solely because they believed NK would collapse before the LWR project was completed. A Clinton crapshoot gone wrong. " I'd have to see a link about that. I posted the article earlier. It was a WAPO unattributed quote that read exactly as I posted it. I assume if WAPO said it, they had a source for it.