guardian.co.uk — Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, sat on the board of a company which three years ago sold two light water nuclear reactors to North Korea.2000: director of a company which wins $200m contract to sell nuclear reactors to North Korea 2002: declares North Korea a terrorist state, part of the axis of evil and a target for regime change
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Closed AccountOct 10, 2006
See the comment above yours.
thelonegunmanOct 10, 2006
ahhh, but that hasn't stopped hate radio hacks like hannity, savage, and lumbaugh from blaming clinton (they were all blaming clinton yesterday - in fact, savage was in his patent anti-jewish mode making a smarmy imitation of a albright visiting china / north korea while accusing HER (and, of course, the Rovian's favourite whipping boy, Clinton) of supplying NK with fissile material (oh, btw savage - you pronounce it as FIZ-ZILE, it does not rhyme with missile). this "revelation", along with cheney's continued war profiteering, will continue to go unnoticed at best or ignored at worst by most americans while the folks still drinking the kool-aid will obediently nod their heads up and down and say "it was clinton's fault" while ignoring the evidence.
geronimoOct 10, 2006
...and gets a nice little check every month.
gigglestickOct 10, 2006
"However, I don't see how this could possibly be used against them."All the Bush Derangement Syndrome people like Moveon.org, etc. won't let the facts get in the way of their hate. They haven't so far."There's nothing to accuse either Rumsfeld or Clinton of here."I think that any blame for Clinton would have to be that he thought this would work, when it didn't. I'm not sure what else he could have done, but the whole plan smells suspicously like appeasement, and we see how well that works. NK was just buying time, by pretending to accept our terms, and continuing the enrichment anyway.
daimposterOct 10, 2006
BURY THIS PEOPLE!! It gives us liberals a very bad name when we point fingers to republicans on actions that are either not any wrongdoing or not their fault. This article is B.S!!! It LWR are not anything that big. And Rummy didn't head the operation to get N.Korea to buy it....it was approved and pushed by the govermnet. So what if Rummy sat on the board of the company that sold it, someone had to sell it since it was an agreement between N.Korea and the international community.BURY THIS ARTICLE NOW!
rocksf18jazzOct 11, 2006
Note to all, please be advise of board meeting, you are one member, what chances are that your approval or veto will have an impact to any future position you may find yourself in?Oh say can you spell capitalism or understand what a board member does?Can we describe what actions Rummy did on the board during/for/against the sell, typical media misdirecting the issue.
fuze44Oct 12, 2006
Yeah, she did a great job negotiating.I'm re-posting just to spite you liberal asses that can't stand equal coverage:I'm not trying to take the focus off of Rumsfield. I just want to bring all of the dirty politicians into the light. Here's Madeline Albright getting in on the action:<a class="user" href="http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/e/e6/300px-Great_Leader_Comrade_Kim_Jong_Il_(122).jpg">http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/e/e6/300px-Great_Leader_Comrade_Kim_Jong_Il_(122).jpg</a><a class="user" href="http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/interactive/asianow/0010/albright.nkorea/1.albright.kim.ap.jpg">http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/interactive/asianow/0010/albright.nkorea/1.albright.kim.ap.jpg</a>