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Posted by: Neophile 1 year, 12 months agoPresident Bush release $95m to North Korea as part of an agreement to replace the Stalinist country's own nuclear programme. In doing so, Bush also 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.
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mozzer
Oct. 10, 2006, 12:19 p.m."...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."
Jeez, how'd that work out Bushie?!??!
I'm not too keen on the termonology:What does a "proliferation-proof nuclear reactor" mean?
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Neophile
Oct. 10, 2006, 12:20 p.m.From the article: "President Bush argued that the decision was 'vital to the national security interests of the United States'."
so...yeah :)
Look forward to him waiving the need for the FDA to approve the safety of new food products because its vital to America's general delciousness interests.
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Gatsby
Oct. 10, 2006, 12:36 p.m.Is anyhbody suprised??? The Village Idiot strikes again. Whose side is this dumbass on, anyway?
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Neophile
Oct. 10, 2006, 12:52 p.m.Keep in mind this move was made after 9/11 and after he declared North Korea to be part of the Axis of Evil.
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mamasan
Oct. 10, 2006, 1:22 p.m."In releasing the 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."
WHAT!!!???? Why that cant be true.
Delta do yo u believe this? Now even Bush is not that dumb!
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dr-don-from-denver
Oct. 10, 2006, 1:22 p.m.Anybody else think he may be trying to hasten the "end times", so he gets in right away?
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Neophile
Oct. 10, 2006, 1:28 p.m.There's no need to inspect the weapons programs of members of the Axis of Evil, right guys? ...Bueller?
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mamasan
Oct. 10, 2006, 1:36 p.m.I find this hard to believe!! NO really, hard to believe. Is that why he wont talk to them? Cuz he gave them carte blanche?
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taquito
Oct. 10, 2006, 1:44 p.m.It was a "diplomatic" chance to help sidetrack their nuclear program (planned by Clinton, hint 1994), planned to shut down the more "threatening" plants and replace them with "safer" plants (less likely to produce weapon based plutonium). Whatever. Diplomacy and North Korea just don't mix. We tried now its time to end it!
Ohh yeah, BTW, they have never welcomed inspector anyways!
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miklkit
Oct. 10, 2006, 1:55 p.m.It's been years since I paid attention to this nuk-u-lar stuff, but there are 2 kinds of reactors. The normal kind that make power and spent rods. And breeder reactors that make plutonium. Breeders are nasty critters. I don't know what it would take to modify them, but they didn't have much time.
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Neophile
Oct. 10, 2006, 1:56 p.m.They never welcomed weapons inspectors so it's okay for Bush to waive the need for them to be inspected?
Hmmm...I think I'll just humbly disagree with that and point to Monday morning's event as a reason why.
Also, that is the diplomatic equivalent of jingling your keys in front of Kim Jong Il's face.
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taquito
Oct. 10, 2006, 2:07 p.m."so it's okay for Bush to waive the need for them to be inspected?"
I NEVER said its OK for them to be waived. Besides you can't "waive" something that isn't and never will happen.
I suggested we should have skipped that "diplomatic" BS and went straight to something that they would uhhh "understand" better. Talks with NK will never work!
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Neophile
Oct. 10, 2006, 2:11 p.m.My bad, Taquito. I misunderstood you at first. I hear you loud and clear now.
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taquito
Oct. 10, 2006, 2:17 p.m.The sad part about all of this is that if you look back to the early 90's when this agreement was made, there is such a freaky resemblance between the "diplomatic" actions taken then and the "diplomatic" actions now with IRAN (i.e. sanctions, $ compensations, tech compensations). And both contries begin by "claiming its simply for energy purposes". People never learn!
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SS454
Oct. 10, 2006, 2:25 p.m.Like almost every thing Bush and his Boys have done they managed to FUge this one up to.Great Job Republicans!,Lets see what else you can screw up with boy elroy at the helm
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Neophile
Oct. 10, 2006, 2:50 p.m.But what is the alternative, taquito? Iraq has proved that pre-emptively attacking doesn't work and in fact makes things worse. What else can we do?
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shagnasty
Oct. 10, 2006, 3:13 p.m.This guy is about as dumb as dumb gets! Can't imagine now anyone in congress not some sort of queer.
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donald51
Oct. 10, 2006, 3:21 p.m.An analyst on TV the other night said that Condi had worked out an arrangement with NK that would have required them not to work toward a nuclear bomb capability; but, when she brought it back to Cheney it was voided. Dick said he wanted "regime change". So, it would seem that the 2002 monies to NK never went through Cheney, if this story is true. The money paid in 2002 does make the likelihood of Condi's aggrement more plausible though!
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time4change
Oct. 10, 2006, 3:25 p.m.Isn't it great to have these 'reminders' of what this idiot has actually done !! Grants funding for nuclear in 2002 (waiving inspections) and is now cranking up the ol prlim to invasion talk for supposedly testing them. Doesn't this picture look like somebody caught with his hand in the cookie jar ??
Luvmyprez, you have to deaf, dumb and blind !!
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not2needy
Oct. 10, 2006, 3:43 p.m.Well there goes the old argument that Clinton helped fund the nuclear program in N Korea.
Guess we can let that dead horse alone.
time4change:
luv is blind to her politics, i stopped trying to talk to her about it a long time ago. The part that kills me is she says she is just right of center, HA, she may be left of extreme right at best.
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keepitpimpingpimping
Oct. 10, 2006, 3:43 p.m.Just when I thought we had reached rock bottom they whip out the shovel and dig a little deeper. The most disturbing thing about this all is that this was approved AFTER he'd gave them the mark of the beast and added them to the "Axis of Evil". Oh, and by the way anyone who tries to blame this on something that Clinton drafted in 94' which was twelve years ago is just as ignorant. I would love to hear from just one person who actually belives that they would be able to blame there current job performance on something that happened twelve years before they got there. Even if Bill Clinton was responsible for EVERY SINGLE WORD written in that agreement whose the ass for following a (at the time) 9 year old business plan?
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blog2006
Oct. 10, 2006, 3:46 p.m.The framework agreement,negotiated under clinton,and contrary to what mc cain may have said,was a success.A CIA report in 1992 indicated the imminence of the risk for North Korea to acquire the nuclear weapon technology:by 194,a framework agreement was signed,and implemented.In fact,if it was a nuclear test (the russians and south koreans certainly believe this) ,it delayed N Korea by about 14 years,from the CIA warning,to get there.
Under Clinton,we delayed the planned construction of the proliferation-resistant light-water reactors (LWRs),in 1999,which obviously upset the koreans.Bush simply decided to throw all of that away,and cancelled unilaterally the agreement completely.He claimed,for good measure,that he wanted to negotiate more than WMD and long range missiles with N korea,and include conventional forces.His invective and bully approach turns out to be a complete failure.
This probably explains why ,he is now so hesitant about admitting that it was a nuclear test.
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