Towd,
Powell spoke on Meet the Press this morning:
...What we found out, though, is that within a few years of agreeing to cap that program, the North Koreans began another program to enrich uranium. We discovered that over the last six or seven months. Our intelligence sources told us this was happening....
...In Brunei at the end of July, I asked to see the foreign minister of North Korea. We had a pleasant conversation. I told him that the United States wanted to engage with North Korea, we wanted to help them, we wanted to help their people, but we had to deal with these issues of proliferation and weapons of mass destruction. He understood that.
A few weeks later, we sent in Assistant Secretary Kelly, presented them with the evidence of this new capability, and they initially denied it and then they acknowledged it. So they acknowledge that they had violated the agreed framework and were putting in place another way of developing nuclear weapons...
For emphasis:
they acknowledge that they had violated the agreed framework and were putting in place another way of developing nuclear weapons
So we're just supposed to look the other way? THEY violated the agreement Towd, not us.
The North Koreans themselves admit they violated the agreement.
YEARS AGO, THEY VIOLATED THE AGREEMENT. YEARS AGO.[/I]Additionally, Japan and South Korea are part of the KEDO reactor building plan along with the US. They're also opposing North Korea's present actions and PAST violation of the '94 agreement.
The fuel oil was stopped when the North Koreans ADMITTED they had violated the '94 agreement YEARS AGO.
Now as to the "Republican" aspect:
Also from Meet The Press
Senator JOE BIDEN,
(D-Del.)Chairman, Foreign Relations Committee
And so I think they’ve started off the correct way. I think going through the U.N., if we can get some solidarity here, is a way in which we can find a way out for the North Koreans and us without rewarding their bad behavior. And let me conclude by saying, you know, under international law-everybody forgets this—they’re entitled to have Yongbyon. They’re entitled to produce that plutonium. They’re not entitled to build nuclear weapons. They’re entitled to have that. And so they’re going to give up something. It seems to me one aspect of the agreed framework that should be able to be salvaged through the international community would be for them to cease and desist what is the clear, present and immediate danger, Yongbyon, and provide them fuel in the interim while we’re trying to work out and/or privately having a demarche saying, “If you do not, we will use force.” That’s on the table. But privately.
Bush's war? That's a DEMOCRAT talking war there.
And what did Mr. Clinton have to say about it?
From CNN online:
..."We actually drew up plans to attack North Korea and to destroy their reactors and we told them we would attack unless they ended their nuclear program," Clinton told a security forum in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam Sunday.
...Commenting on the North Korean announcement, Clinton said the move made it imperative that Pyongyang be persuaded or forced to halt its weapons program.
"Make no mistake about it, it has to be ended," Clinton said.
Bush's war? That's a DEMOCRAT talking there.. and a former President that drew up plans for war with North Korea.
Lastly......
this wont change your oppinion nothing will change a domatic fool but the future character assasination that is part and parcel to your typical arguments will hopefully be transparent to non brainwashed readers.
Better look in the mirror, chum.
