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???????

[Reader Rabbit]

1. I just watched that, too!

I don't always agree with the old curmudgeon, but he was certainly on the mark with this one!

[volstork]

2. I agree

I usually find Rooney to be a bit annoying, but thought he was spot-on tonight.

[TwentyFive]

3. Bush has been in office for 6 years - thanks to him, North Korea has NUKES

I'd say we're far less safe with that moronic monkey that some people call the president.

[ClassWarrior]

4. Did they expose the Faith-Based Follies on tonight's show?

I missed it.

NGU.

[Reader Rabbit]

5. Yup. Although Leslie Stahl isn't a thorough enough journalist...

...to do the topic justice. Not to mention the fact that they wasted 2/3 of the hour on the damned Duke rape case. I don't deny that it's important, but I'd say that Kuo's book and story have a bit of a wider impact, dontcha think?

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6. see it online..

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/14/60minutes/main2089778.shtml

God and politics had become very much fused together into a sort of a single entity. Where, in a way, politics was the fourth part of the trinity. God the father, God the son, God the holy spirit, God the politician."

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David Kuo

David Kuo is an evangelical Christian and card-carrying member of the religious right, who got a job in the White House in the president’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. He thought it was a dream-come-true: a chance to work for a president whose vision about compassionate conservatism would be matched with sweeping legislation to help the poor.

But Kuo says the so-called compassion agenda has fallen short of its promise and he blames President Bush for that in his new book.

As correspondent Lesley Stahl reports, he also says the White House was a place that cynically used religion for political ends and that White House aides ridiculed the very Christian leaders who helped bring Mr. Bush to office.

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7. don't think any country should have a nuclear weapon & that includes ours

"I don't think any country should have a nuclear weapon. And that includes ours."


Andy Rooney said this on 60 Minutes. :wow:

[The Roux Comes First]

8. Isn't Fostering North Korean Nuclear Weapons Anti-Patriotic??

Since we have had the government initiate an ever-so-rare treason case in the last week or so, I have to ask whether the non-elected white-houser isn't an even more logical potential target for that charge. We had NK nukes kicked years down the road until george's laziness (actually probably cowardice) when it comes to the hard work of actual negotiations (it would interfere with those glorious months of bike rides and brush-cutting) restarted this particular terrorist.

Come to think of it, have terrorists ever had a better bosom buddy? He and Osama are obviously natural buds, each having had their careers gloriously enhanced and extended by the other. But he and Kim Il are obviously also sneaking out at nights together too. Do you suppose the three of them get together? And which combinations of them have also partied with Mr. Kahn, the Pakistani nuclear proliferator?

The North Korean imbroglio, besides scaring the bejeebers out of some, does an exceptional job of limning the routine foreign "policy" of the bush-cheney-rumsfeld-rice gang. This excerpt from a great essay may be helpful in reminding how we got where we are and as fodder for nudging those around us who may be prone to get their "news" from sycophantic bush-could-never-do-wrong sources to at least entertain some doubt.

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Think about this for a moment. We were considering going to war with Iraq, ostensibly because we were worried that it had weapons of mass destruction that it might sell to terrorists. Suddenly, we discover that North Korea, which is willing to sell more or less anything to anyone, is trying to make not just any old WMD -- not, say, mustard gas or anthrax -- but nuclear weapons. On any plausible view of our rationale for going to war with Iraq, North Korea had just revealed itself to be a much more serious threat than Iraq.

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9. We often switch to 60 Minutes at the end just to watch Andy Rooney

Here's what he had to say about the takeover by the military-industrial complex (transcript and video clip):

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/30/60minutes/main892398.shtml