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North Korea and the Bush Administration
By Lowell | March 1, 2007
*The New York Times story on North Korea and the Bush Administration gets a lot of discussion on today’s “blue” blogosphere.
*Matthew Yglesias concludes that “The odds look decent, in other words, that the administration effectively let the DPRK build nuclear weapons for absolutely no reason at all other than its generally bad attitude toward diplomatic agreements and “stuff Bill Clinton did.”
*Booman Tribune says that “Every day comes a new revelation about how moronic Bush’s axis of evil speech really was…”
*Talking Points Memo has a brilliant, blistering analysis:
Because of a weapons program that may not even have existed (and no one ever thought was far advanced) the White House the White House got the North Koreans to restart their plutonium program and then sat by while they produced a half dozen or a dozen real nuclear weapons — not the Doug Feith/John Bolton kind, but the real thing.
It’s a screw-up that staggers the mind. And you don’t even need to know this new information to know that. Even if the claims were and are true, it was always clear that the uranium program was far less advanced than the plutonium one, which would be ready to produce weapons soon after it was reopened. Now we learn the whole thing may have been a phantom. Like I said, it staggers the mind how badly this was bungled. In this decade there’s been no stronger force for nuclear weapons proliferation than the dynamic duo of Dick Cheney and George W. Bush.
Wow, that is REALLY bad. Actually, it’s beyond really bad, but my head is spinning around right now and I can’t think of the best adjective.
*Finally, Wonkette has a story entitled, “Administration Almost Admits to Lying About NK, Heavens Open Up and Prepare to Swallow Earth.”
Ha.
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