news.bbc.co.uk — In releasing the $95 million in funding, President George W Bush waived the Framework's requirement that North Korea allow inspectors to ensure it has not hidden away any weapons-grade plutonium from the original reactors. President Bush argued that the decision was "Vital to the national security interests of the United States."
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fredratedOct 10, 2006
@RadiantBeingDid you even read the blurb above, much less TFA?"Bush waived the Framework's requirement..."The point is Bush didn't adhear to the framework, however much we ahould all love it because it's "continuing the Clinton administration's policy"!As for looking into our heart, how about looking into your own to discover the soure of this obfiscation?
julessiegelOct 11, 2006
And lied about it. This is very important to keep in mind. It cost $80 million to trap him into fibbing, but it was well-spent, because it distracted him from dealing with bin Laden, thereby giving the Bushbots another excuse for blaming everything on Bill Clinton, even though they also claimed he was doing too much about bin Laden in order to avoid scrutiny of his fibbing about his extramarital fling. No Republican has ever told a lie about cheating on his/her/its spouse, of course. Or would. They just lie about everything else that matters, while killing thousands of innocent bystanders so that they can continue enriching themselves at the public trough.
humanautOct 11, 2006
It's going to take a LOT of Republican administrations, lots of scandals, wars of aggression, religious intolerance, sexual discrimination, scrapping of science, fences, detention camps, warrantless spying and people disappearing in the night, to undo the 8 years of relative peace and economic prosperity unleashed on the world by that demonic Bill Clinton.
humanautOct 11, 2006
"Get on your little peace train and tell the Kurds about Hussein not having WMD's - maybe they're just pretending to be dead"Hussein just can't be trusted. You give him chemical weapons to fight a proxy war against Iran, and what does he do? Turns around and uses them on his other less-strategically-important-to-the-US enemies! What kind of "propped up tinpot dictator" does he think he is? Man, it's a good thing we took him out. Too bad Chalabi, the tinpot dictator we had planned to prop up in his place, turned out to be an iranian turncoat. Geez, you just can't trust middle eastern militaristic megalomaniacs these days :(
zenmojoOct 11, 2006
Why do we ignore the fact that under Clinton we required PROOF that they weren't making nuclear weapons but under Bush the PROOF was WAIVED?Clinton in 1994: "Let our inspectors into your country and you'll get some cash and Light Water Reactors."Jong-Il: "Dammit...alright."Bush in 2001: "What's this deal here? Who are you anyway? Oh well, here's your cash."Jong-Il: "Thanks!"Bush...2003: "Wait...you're making nuclear weapons, aren't you?"Jong-Il: "Oh, you got me...soooo clever. So now what do we do?"Bush: "f**k yourself. We're going home."Bush to the media: "NORTH KOREA, IRAQ, AND IRAN ARE THE AXIS OF EVIL!"Jong-Il: "We've still got nuclear weapons! Come on! Talk to us!"Bush: "No, really, go f**k yourself. Axis bastard...."Jong-Il: "I don't even know Iraq! I only saw it across the room at a party once...at your place!"Bush to the UN: "Let's invade IRAQ!"North Korea: "What the f**k?"South Korea: "Shut the f**k up, North Korea..."South Korea to Bush: "WHAT THE f**k!?!?!?"And that's the real story. Minus the spin.
meadow113Oct 11, 2006
In 1994, North Korea agreed to stop enriching plutonium with their ancient reactor at yongbyon in exchange for money from us, oil shipments, and 2 light-water reactors. They had plutonium already enriched at this point, it was a all a big nasty contaminated mess over there, we sent people to help get things cleaned up. The reactor went off in 1994. We continued giving them money and oil shipments but were not satisfied with the way they handled inspections under Clinton, the light-water reactors were never put into place.For 8 years, the ancient unsafe reactor at yongbyon stayed off, we watched from satellites. They may have played around with the plutonium that they already had, but they did not create more of it for 8 years. In 2002, Bush called them part of the axis of evil in his state of the union address in January, this article was written in april, so after calling them part of the axis of evil, he continued giving them money, and waived the inspections. In September they told us they were creating nuclear weapons, most experts at the time felt it was a bluff. Having an administration who communicated in sound bytes only with North Korea, and rushed into Iraq, sending the message that if you have no nuke we will overthrow you, if you do we will not has hurt us on this deal. North Korea restarted the reactor at yongbyon in february of 03, we didn't do anything about it, we were hell bent on going to Iraq. For the past 3 years they have made it perfectly clear that they were working on developing nuclear weapons, again we have done nothing except refuse to have talks with them. Maybe they have tested a nuke under ground, and maybe they have not, but it doesn't matter because now this administration is hell bent on going to Iran it seems.Clinton did not give north korea any nuclear technology, or enriched weapons material, no new reactors were ever built in North Korea, what they have is the ancient reactor back up and running for 3 plus years now, the reactor stayed off for 8 years due to the efforts of Clinton/Carter.
axiomshellOct 11, 2006
I think I'll play devil's advocate on this one...As much as I want to see Bush gone as the next (sensible) man, I think I'll have to look at this thing with a critical eye.This is simple diplomacy.(Diplomatically) you can't just waltz into a country and make demands, offering nothing in return.You have to give some kind of carrot.You can never be sure what other people will do with the carrot (nuclear bombs?)