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North Korea Says It Has Conducted Nuclear Test
ScentCone writes "North Korea says that it has conducted its first nuclear weapons test and 'brought happiness to its people.' Japan and China earlier issued an unusual joint statement saying that such a test would be 'unacceptable.' As of 11:10PM EST, the USGS says that it has not detected any unusual seismic activity on the Korean peninsula in the last 48 hours." From the article: "The North said last week it would conduct a test, sparking regional concern and frantic diplomatic efforts aimed at dissuading Pyongyang from such a move. North Korea has long claimed to have nuclear weapons, but had never before performed a known test to prove its arsenal. The nuclear test was conducted at 10:36 a.m. (0136 GMT) in Hwaderi near Kilju city, Yonhap reported, citing defense officials." Update: 10/09 05:50 GMT by J : The U.S. Geological Survey reports a 4.2 magnitude quake; South Korean news is reporting a 3.58 magnitude event; the White House apparently confirms a nuclear test.
Uh... has it occured to you that none of the bodies shipped to Iraq or Afghanistan, nor any that have returned are friends or family of the president himself? He'd never actually send anyone he cared about into war... just the poor kids who have no other way to pay for school and hoped the military service would offer it.
"Just outright stupid", is about the best three word description I can give for Bush's North Korea policy, which directly led to a nuclear armed rogue state, and which is the #1 cause that we now are dealing with a radicalized Iran that is rapidly pursuing nuclear weapons.
With expert advice, and sound council from the countries close to NK, Bush Senior, and later Clinton, forged a wise policy that was working, though distasteful to self-righteous neoconservatives. This delicate balance, achieved through years of negotiation, resulted in a verifiable halt to large-scale nuclear enrichment.
All this was smashed to pieces the day Bush gave his infamous "Axis of Evil" speech.
Remember the three "Axis of Evil" countries? Iraq... gee that's going well. Iran... now possibly the largest threat to world stability due to it's nuclear ambitions combined with it's terrorist backing. North Korea... now nuclear armed.
Stupid, stupid, stupid. Of course, anyone reading this who is a true neoconservative ditto-head, or one of those who think Bush is doing God's work, will naturally continue to ignore reality...
Beer is proof that God loves us, and wants us to be happy.
And that is, do not get a blow job in the oval office if I am president, because look what happened. It got American's 8 years of idiocy and war, and now North Korea has nukes.
Cliff Claven
K.E.G. Party Chairman
Founding Leader of: Koncerned for Egalitarin Governance
"If there had been even the remotest chance that Saddam Hussein had had weapons of mass destruction, do you think we'd have invaded Iraq?"
Actually if you go back and read the reports of the debates in congress leading up to the invasion one thing that the opposition was constantly saying is that we shouldn't invade because Saddam would use his weapons of mass distruction against us and our allies. Revisionist history bothers me when either side engages in it, however, regarding the Iraq war and that whole affair the Democrats and the leftist media have engaged in far more revision than the Republican party or the right wing movement.
On the topic of Korea's nuclear test. It is indeed a bad thing for the world if another nation has nukes. I was secretly hoping that Korea would screw themselves over somehow and nuke a large segment of their own population. However, the UN sanctions and other nations providing sanctions is going to bring about change eventually. The people in Korea are starving and as it continues discent with the government will rise. Even China, Korea's one supposed friend in the whole area, is not happy with them anymore. They are painting themselves into a corner and it will eventually bite them on their ass.
For any party that consistently campaigns on a platform of fear, this is excellent news. I find myself more afraid this will increase the chances of republicans getting elected in November. Following that, how republicans will react to North Korea (or any other threat, real or imagined) and what knee-jerk policies they will put in place.
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Siting fox news as the source for confirmation :P
Good job! nearly 3000 soldiers dead, 20,000-40,000 wounded. Well more than 100,000 Iraqis dead, untold numbers wounded. Iraq has become a breeding ground for terrorists.
Afghanistan on the brink of civil war. Secret prisons. Torture. Full frontal attack on American civil rights. The list goes on.
Lies , lies and more lies to the American people.
Ordinary joe? He's a liar who used his lies to start a war. This is one of the worst crimes a human can commit. It is so sad that you have such a poor view of the ordinary joe.
I admit it. I still say that we're better off than we would have been with Kerry, but it's always possible that's not true.
Huh? Possible? An American voter asking if they might have been better off voting for Kerry in 2004 is like Miramax asking if they might have been better off if they hadn't passed up the chance to make Lord of the Rings, after Peter Jackson made Time Warner a couple billion dollars.
The US is now visibly being torn apart by its dual-party system.
Um, no. You have just as much corruption, and a lot more gridlock, in a multiparty system. What is tearing this country apart is the fact that the Democrats and the media have been almost completely unable to stand up to the GOP's propoganda machine.