Bush Uses Clinton's Approach to Secure Korean Accord

[sabra]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ab9JMOlf93l0&refer=home

Bush Uses Clinton's Approach to Secure Korean Accord (Update1)

Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) -- The accord struck by the U.S. and its partners to limit and eventually dismantle North Korea's nuclear program resembles one signed in 1994 by President Bill Clinton, a deal President George W. Bush denounced.

Bush, in his January 2003 State of the Union address, criticized the Clinton-negotiated Agreed Framework, saying Kim Jong Il's government all along ``was deceiving the world'' and developing nuclear weapons. Bush abandoned the deal in 2002 after North Korea admitted it had violated the accord, which offered energy aid for an end to the nuclear effort.

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The deal has created some strange bedfellows for Bush. Bill Richardson, a Democratic presidential candidate and former United Nations ambassador under Clinton, was among the first to praise the new accord, while Bush's most recent UN envoy, John Bolton, was one of the first to attack it.

Senator Christopher Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, said this week's agreement ``looks very much'' like the Clinton deal.

[Jacobin]

1. (-:

[wakeme2008]

2. a kick and nom for doing things the Bill Clinton way

:)

[ginnyinWI]

3. It's okay if you are a Republican. n/t

[Sal316]

4. I can hear freeper heads exploding now!

HAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAH!

I wonder if the cognitive dissonance will kill them.

[Selteri]

5. They may be copying in a desperate attempt to show some success

They'll never admit that Clinton was the one who give them the idea though, that would be like admitting that Bush can't speak like an educated person.

The truth is beautiful, the only successes comming from copying someone they ran down as being a suposed failure. LOL

[rodeodance]

6. Condi told Bush he needed a Foreign policy success---BBC reporter

said this last night on a PBS news show.

[Hobarticus]

7. * Gasp* The dreaded "C" word!

And who the hell cares what "I Am The Walrus" Bolton thinks, anyway?

[MichiganVote]

8. This just infuriates me. All the tough talk, the BS, the threats and so on

I swear this administration must be on laughing gas. And of course now begins the bullshit about their success and the Clinton failure. Say one thing, do another, and then say you did the other better than the last guy who made it work. Complete idiocy.