Clinton Hoped Bush Would 'Consumate' His North Korea Deal (TIMELINE)

[Hissyspit]

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Clinton Hoped Bush Would 'consumate' His North Korea Deal
Sunday, October 15 2006 @ 11:36 PM EDT

But the Incoming Bush Administration had Iraq on its Mind in 2000

BBSNews Analysis 2006-10-15 -- A lot has been said of late of Bill Clinton's foreign policy towards North Korea as compared to George W. Bush's policy. Former president Clinton has not been the president for the last six years. What is not being debated in the media is what happens during a transition from administration to administration.

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Former President Carter contacted Clinton and wanted to take on the nettlesome problem with North Korea thwarting International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors and he was largely successful, but in July just as the Geneva talks agreed to with North Korea started, Kim Il Sung died the day before the G-7 Summit. Talks were postponed for a month and in October 1994 an agreement was announced with North Korea, the "agreed framework" that Republicans are currently talking about. However, the GOP may not be talking about the same agreement that Clinton made, he said as much in his memoir:

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In a meeting with George W. Bush on the eve of taking over, Clinton and Bush had a meeting much like the father George H. W. Bush had had with Clinton eight years earlier. Here is his impression of the meeting and what the incoming administration had on its agenda:

"He was putting together an experienced team from past Republican administrations who believed that the biggest security issues were the need for national missile defense and Iraq. I told him that based upon the last eight years, I thought his biggest security problems, in order, would be Osama Bin Laden and al Qaeda; the absence of peace in the Middle East, and that we had almost tied up a deal with North Korea to end its missile programs, but that he probably would have to go there to close the deal."

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Excerpted below is the timeline of North Korea related events as told by Bill Clinton himself in his book. It is a history lesson in itself of some of the earlier successes and failures to come up with a workable North Korean policy. One thing Republicans cannot hope to change is the fact that Bill Clinton worked very hard at getting North Korea to a negotiating table, his staff was fully engaged on the issue, and he attempted to impart to President Bush just how important North Korea was (as well as the leading issue, Osama Bin Laden and al Qaeda).

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[Zambero]

1. Oh, it's been "Consumated" all right!

In the four-letter sense, this is.