Gotta Love that Andy Rooney. He noted that we should have stopped

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North Korea back in 03 since they were more the threat than Saddam!

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/13/60minutes/rooney/main2087893.shtml (CBS) The following is a weekly 60 Minutes commentary by CBS News correspondent Andy Rooney.


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I served in the United States Army for four years during World War II, so I never feel I have to worry about sounding unpatriotic when I’m critical of something my country does.


Right now, I don't understand why we think it is OK for us to have nuclear weapons but it isn't all right for some other countries to have any. I don't think any country should have a nuclear weapon. And that includes ours.

Seven countries admit having them. They are The United States, Great Britain, Russia, France, China, India and Pakistan. Israel may have them, but hasn't said so.

North Korea has recently set off a nuclear bomb of some kind, and the leaders of the countries with the bomb - that includes us -are in a tizzy about that.

We're a little late getting exercised about this. North Korea has always been more of a threat to world peace than Iraq ever was and if we were going to attack someone three years ago to make the world safer, we should have attacked North Korea, not Iraq.

We're not so much afraid that North Korea will use the bomb against us as we are that they'll sell their nuclear technology to some little country or group of individuals who will use it on us. It could happen.



As posted earlier here http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/asia-pacific/1908571.stm
US grants N Korea nuclear funds in 2002
The US Government has announced that it will release $95m to North Korea as part of an agreement to replace the Stalinist country's own nuclear programme, which the US suspected was being misused.

Under the 1994 Agreed Framework an international consortium is building two proliferation-proof nuclear reactors and providing fuel oil for North Korea while the reactors are being built.

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.


How SAFER HAS THE SHRUB MADE US???????