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Hapaboy: And merely because North Korea is not Sunni or harboring bin Laden means it is not a threat?
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October 12, 2006
SouthAmerica: The truth is the Bush administration has been on the case of North Korea since they too power in January 2001.
If Al Gore had been the US president we would not have the mess that we have today regarding the US/North Korea nuclear crisis.
Around 2002 North and South Korea were taking steps to merge the two Koreas into one country. And that went against the policies of the Bush administration that wanted to keep the 50,000 American military people on the Korean Peninsula. (I guess to keep a watch on China.)
If the 2 Koreas had been allowed to merge then there would not be a reason for the US army to stay in the Korean Peninsula.
The Clinton administration was right in starting a close dialogue with North Korea â and if they were followed up by a Gore administration â I am sure that today we would be on an advanced stage regarding the merge of the 2 Koreas.
In the last 2 days I have been watching all that US government propaganda against North Korea on CNN News â people in South Korea burning the flag of North Korea, South Koreans stepping on the picture of the leader of North Korea, and so on.
The old archives come handy when you need some old films to make the case for possible war against North Korea. Most Americans donât realize that most the stuff that they are showing to the American audiences on television are old films from a time long gone.
But a picture is worth a thousand words. Repeat, and repeat the propaganda over and over again and the fools will believe on anything you are saying â even regarding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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When Brazil magazine published my article "Brazil, North Korea and Food for Nukesâ on May 31, 2003 someone from Korea started a thread about my article on Brazzil Magazineâs Forum.
A few days after the thread was moving along the editor of Brazzil magazine sent me an email saying that someone had started a thread regarding my article. The discussion went on for a period of 2 years and the discussion did continued every time North Korea was in the news.
I started a thread about North Korea at the PBS web site in September 2004, and made a copy of the discussion that had been going on at the Brazzil magazine forum to eliminate a waste of time by having to repeat a lot of the discussion that we already had covered on the other web site.
You can see the discussion related to North Korea since May 2003 on the following location:
http://discussions.pbs.org/viewtopic.pbs?t=10317&highlight=north+korea
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Today the Republican politicians and Republican spin-doctors are blaming everybody in sight about the nuclear crisis between the United States and North Korea.
They are blaming even General MacArthur, since under the command of General Douglas MacArthur the US forces could not win the Korean War from June 25, 1950 to a cease-fire on July 27, 1953.
It is General Douglas MacArthurâs fault that the US had to keep 50,000 Americans soldiers on the Korean Peninsula doing nothing since 1953 â the United States has been keeping 50,000 soldiers during over 50 years waiting for a possibility that war might break out at any time. (Never mind the costs related in keeping 50,000 soldiers just sitting around and waiting for a war that has never materialized - they have been waiting for over 53 years.)
Many American soldiers whom where in South Korea waiting for the war against North Korea to be restarted â many of them since that time have died of old age.
The United States could not beat North Korea in the 1950âs â I wonder why the Bush administration thinks that they can beat today a starving North Korea armed with nukes. Under the leadership of the Bush administration - these guys managed to make the US army look Pathetic in Iraq even against a bunch of insurgents.
Even the Israeli army did not look good against Hezbollah â all the Israelis could do was drop bombs from the air.
You can bet the North Koreans have been watching the US army fight in Iraq against the insurgency, and outsource the fighting in Afghanistan to other fools that they could find to do the fighting for them â and the fighting style of Hezbollah against an army from Israel armed with weapons a hundred times more powerful.
There is a lesson or two here that other countries have learned on how to fight the US army and the Israeli army and actually beat them.
The Bush administration is glad that North Korea has done this nuclear test right now since it takes the attention of the American people from the chaos in Iraq â In the meantime the situation in the Iraq sectarian civil war is getting worse by the day â and the US army has no other alternative other than serve as target practice for all sides involved in this very nasty sectarian civil war.
What is ironic about the Iraq war is that two major cowards â George W. Bush, and Dick Cheney (they were nowhere to be found during the Vietnam War) â today these two cowards are making the decisions about sending people to war and they donât think twice about sending someone elseâs kid to be slaughtered in Iraq.
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