thinkprogress.org — Think Progress has the video. "Straight Talk" McCain said on NBC today, "I think this is the wrong time for us to be engaging in finger pointing when in this crucial time, we need the world and Americans united."
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fatfingerOct 11, 2006
McCain is a flip flopper.
dancpsuOct 11, 2006
For those who are digging me down:"We assess that North Korea has produced enough plutonium for at least one, and possibly two, nuclear weapons...That reactor fuel contains enough plutonium for several more weapons."Source: CIA Unclassified Report to Congress on the Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions, 1 July Through 31 December 2000 <a class="user" href="https://www.cia.gov/cia/reports/721_reports/july_dec2000.htm#5">https://www.cia.gov/cia/reports/721_reports/july_dec2000.htm#5</a>(Clinton didn't leave office until January 2001)
dianeofthemoonOct 11, 2006
"If he would have went over there and sweet talked NK himself and got them to give up on the Nuke program and even convinced Kim Jong-il personally to step down you would have something to bitch about."No...I think that if that would have happened my jaw would hit the floor. The problem isn't (with me, at least) that I want everything Bush does to be wrong...it's that everything Bush does is, to me, wrong. And, the worst part is that he hasn't learned that a leader has to take responsibility of his (and others) actions. Bush hasn't acted like a president, even one I don't like, he's acted like a spoiled brat bully who doesn't have anyone that can punish him anymore. His domestic policy is "Do what I want or I'll remove you" and his foreign policy is "Do what I want or I'll remove you". His idea of compromise is "Do what I want or I'll remove you" and the only thing he seems to be able to do is show force. It's what happened in Katrina, in Iraq and is going on now with Iran.It also strikes me as interesting that the _one_ country everyone knows has nukes is the _one_ country Bush isn't hellbent to invade. NK has been going on since Iraq that they are building nukes and will test them, but Bush keeps trying to find a way into Iran...even though we don't know, and have no reason to know, that they are doing anything other than attempting to provide themselves with cheap power.
koosebaneOct 12, 2006
"Americans said no to the world when it came to Iraq war"Which world would that be? <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_Forces">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_Forces</a>The only major countries who said "no" to invading Iraq had their hands firmly in Saddam's pockets.Take your faulty fantasies somewhere else where they won't be shot down so badly.
polygoneOct 13, 2006
Because when you're outside the "bubble", it's much easier to put things in perspective.
polygoneOct 13, 2006
@TheEditor0This is the political opinion catagory. How dare they post where their supposed to!!!
infoproOct 13, 2006
Per fatfinger: "Obviously has a "young adult" you have not learned the lesson that history repeats itself and what's going on in office and the effect it's having around the world is Criminal (just like WW2)."Actually history doesn't repeat itself. The correct Santayana concept is (roughly) that "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." History doesn't repeat. The only things that get repeated about it are imbecilic mistakes that fall into the "lessons we refuse to learn" category. :) In essence, though, your analysis is correct even if the quote wasn't exactly so.