So we bomb Iraq because of WMD, but we let NK explode a bomb?

[Renew Deal]

Explain that one to me. Talk about going after the wrong people. I don't know if Bush could have done anything about North Korea if we weren't in Iraq, but it certainly is a distraction. In this case it's another massive failure.

[babylonsister]

1. Survey says, what really happened? I don't know and don't

believe anyone for awhile. Hey, look at that guy linked to JBRamsey who is now free. Remember the waste of time and angst?

[MADem]

2. Naaah, we bomb Iraq because of OIL and SAY it's because of WMD!

If North Korea has minerals or other resources we need, we'll bomb them too! Right now, they're a nice crazyass buffer state, and we just want to keep them in a box.

At least that seems to be the Monkey's foreign policy...!

[lvx35]

3. We led them to explode a bomb in many ways.

We never should have used military force against Iraq or NK. Its precisely by using it that we increased the perceived "market value" of Military force, and thus nukes. NK just "bought in". If we had emphasized something else NK would have bought into that too.

[babylonsister]

4. And we "let" NK explode a bomb? I think not.

I'm in the 'WTF" stage, but still...
I imagine the blivet is in the mix...

[Renew Deal]

5. I'm not saying the US is in on it.

And I don't mean to imply that at all.

[FightingIrish]

6. Try this logic

Diplomacy didn't work.

We have to stop Iran.

Bombing Iran will send a message to North Korea.

The timing couldn't have been better.


I just finished "State of Denial" and I'm not going to sleep very well tonight.

[Rosemary2205]

7. You don't have the right equipment to understand it.

Understanding this requires a special kind of brain damage that only the backwash have. Sorry.

[Erika]

8. Pretty weird, huh. Kind of like W sees profits rather than dangers

Could he be a republican?

[TomInTib]

9. We have been reduced to the bluffer's role.

We cannot handle them militarily.

And they know it.

Hell, they moved the USS Pueblo all the way around the peninsula and into Pyongyang right under our nose.
Just last year.

[LeighAnn]

10. Sentiment at Free Republic

Over there, they are saying, "Bomb Iran!" I don't get it.

[Rex]

11. We can't stop NK from detonating a nuclear bomb, China can.

Well could, if they didn't sell it to them. Who knows. You just can't stop everyone from joining the Nuke club. Sad really.