Bush is touting "DIPLOMACY" all of a sudden...

[jadedconformist]

...when it comes to North Korea? LOL.

[kentuck]

1. Just like he'll be touting "bi-partisanship" if Democrats win House...

or Senate. Bet on it.

[bullimiami]

2. attacking n korea is not part of the world domination plan. so ....

'diplomacy'

pitiful joke.

[rock]

4. I take it they don't have any oil

[Totally Committed]

14. Yeah, no oil and a bunch of dirt-poor starving people...

no chance of invasion and occupation there! We all know that, after Katrina, the Bushies are content to allow poor people to starve if they have nothing else to offer.

TC

[Minnesota Libra]

3. Of course - N Korea has WMDs and is just waiting for a ...............

.....reason to use them. Not to mention that what N Korea couldn't do Russia and China would be only too happy to help them do and with overwhelming force too.

Against someone who can't fight back Bush is all he-man but against someone who can fights and wants a fight Bush is a wimp. In this case being a wimp and going for diplomacy is a good thing though.

[napi21]

5. Did you see the WJ this AM with the 3 reporters on the panel?

One from WSJ, one from UPI, and one from the Baltimore Sun. They had duties of reporting on the State Dept, the Pentagon, and the WH, respectively.

Each one, in their own way said the US has no other option except diplomacy now. The State Dept. has sooo many problems on it's plate now, it's overflowing. Rummy's idea of using technology and downsizing the ilitary doesn't seem to be working, and we just don't have the troops to do ANYTHING but diplomacy in NK, Iran, Russia, and several other problem areas around the World. The WH has sooo much going on with all the problems, many self created, and the G8 is next week!

It was a very good panel.

[AuntPatsy]

6. Ironic isn't it?

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. They might fight back, the generals don't like those kind of odds.

[Warpy]

8. Translation:

they all freaked out and had to come running to Gov. Richardson again.

While I have little use for Richardson as a presidential candidate, I'd dearly love to see him as Secretary of State. Anyone who can finesse the North Koreans the way he can might be able to repair our reputation in the world.

Well, after we reaffirm our support of the Geneva Conventions, imprison all the men who were instrumental in violating them, and ending the disgusting policy of rendition.

[snowbear]

9. I agree!

When it comes to dealing with North Korea.. Richardson is DA GUY!!! :headbang:

[jadedconformist]

10. It's funny because we weren't sure if Iraq had these weapons...

and invaded--and here we are, absolutely positive that North Korea does have them...and we're taking the diplomatic approach all of a sudden. Double-standard, anybody? Maybe I'm just in the twilight zone. I have to be wrong.



:shrug:

[Jacobin]

11. Bullies only threaten those who they think are defenseless

Bombing N. Korea would unleash an enormous artillery attack on Seoul with 35,000 US troops in the cross fire.

NK has more than 2 million troops.

No telling what China would do, although I'm sure it would love to see us even further preoccupied and stretched thin militarily, as they are the upcoming military rival on the world stage.

Smirky is screwed and he screwed up the Clinton diplomacy which was better at containing NK than Smirky's cowboy bullshit

[snowbear]

12. Yep..

Bush regarding North Korea:

[TheCowsCameHome]

13. He's run out of military forces to commit anywhere else.

[slide to the left]

15. Can we give him the benefit of the doubt

and pretend he just learned his lesson after Iraq and doesn't want to start another war?

[jadedconformist]

16. I would if he would admit it. That's all I ask. :) n/t

[TheWatcher]

19. THe fact that you want to give this giggling murderer the benefit of the

doubt is breathtaking.

You win looniest delusional post of the day.

[gulliver]

17. Making a virtue of a necessity.

He will have to back down to NK, also, IMO. He can't have them sending up a bunch more test missiles. Then people might ask why he doesn't just shoot them down with the NMD system. And, of course if he tries to use NMD, he'll find that NK's missiles don't have the little "here I am" transponders that were required in the only successful NMD tests.

[DesertRat]

18. It really is ironic

He kept going on about how people need to be patient because diplomacy "takes time". As if it's the American public who are urging him to invade other countries.
:wtf:

[ladjf]

20. He has "tapped out" his political and military capital.

[leesa]

21. Of course he is. We only fight weakling countries. I wish someone among

his mental giant advisors would let him know Iran has a military, unlike Iraq, and the dozens of other countries we have pummeled over the last half century.