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Originally Posted by JohnScott
The North Koreans are a fun topic. We should get into that. They tested a medium range ICBM over Japan, and another downed North Korean warhead was found in Alaska. What do the liberals think we should do? I got a feeling that if Pyongyang did nuke Japan, Democrats would simply call for "peace talks".
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That is a real weak argument. Under whose watch was that allowed to happen on?
So let's talk North Korea. The Koreans had a stash of radioactive fuel rods, taken in the early 1990's from its nuclear power plant in Yongbyon. These rods could be processed into plutonium. With that plutonium, the means to acquire nuclear bombs. Not in years but in months.
The Clinton administration brokered an agreement whereby the rods were locked in a storage facility under the monitoring of international weapons inspectors.
All the Bush administration had to do was keep these rods locked up.
Under Bush's failed failed diplomatic meetings over the uranium, North Korea ousted the weapons inspectors, broke the locks on the fuel rods, loaded them onto a truck, and drove them to a nearby reprocessing facility, to be converted into bomb-grade plutonium.
The White House sat by and let this happen without so much as a peep because Bush had a hard on for Saddam. Instead of using proper force on a country that would only need months to create nuclear weapons, he instead chose to use force against... Saddam. And now North Korea has nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them to your country.
What about Iran? Whose watch did that happen on?
So Bush thought it better to invade and occupy a nation that turns out didn't have chemical/nuclear weapons and is spending $287 billion as well as proposing another $70 billion for continuing effort if he gets elected again to accomplish this goal all the while two countries who are imminent threats to US security have been given a pass to build nuclear weaponry.
All the while, the President has been telling you you are safer. Do you feel safer? Knowing that Saddam had no WMDs and even if he did, none of which could ever reach you, or two countries with KNOWN AND ESTABLISHED ties to terrorism having the capability to do so. Mmmmm, that's good comfort.