Bush admin wants N. Korea off terror watch list - New England Patriots Forums

Holy Diver · 06-25-2008, 06:20 PM

Huh?.......

So the one member of the so called "Axis of Evil" that didn't get invaded and built a nuclear bomb, and tested it.....and is a dictatorship, and funder of terror......is now to be....

TAKEN OFF THE TERROR WATCH LIST?????????????????????????????????

if I am reading the headline correctly...

which I might be reading incorrectly.....so please......I'f I have read this wrong, which I still hope I am ......let me know.....

http://www.therawstory.com/

Report: Bush admin wants N. Korea off terror watch list
By Nick Juliano | Uncategorized | Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Word emerged late Tuesday night that the Bush administration would ask Congress to remove North Korea from a terrorist watch list this week, according to a prominent Washington foreign policy expert.

Steve Clemons, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, broke the news on his blog:

Tonight, The Washington Note confirmed that the Bush administration will “ask Congress” to de-list North Korea from America’s “terrorist watch list.” This request will be made on Thursday — if there are no last minute, unexpected interventions.

otis p. driftwood · 06-25-2008, 06:31 PM

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- The United States could move quickly to remove North Korea from its list of terrorism sponsors after Pyongyang issues an expected declaration of its nuclear activities, the White House said on Wednesday.

North Korea, which tested a nuclear device in October 2006, planned to give the long-awaited report to China by Thursday, Japan's Kyodo news agency said earlier this week.

Once North Korea makes the declaration, "it could be quite soon" that the United States would move to remove it from its list of terrorism sponsors, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said.

"Remember, this was action for action, and this was something that was laid out quite a while ago," she said. She did not give further details.

Removal from the U.S. list would ease trade restrictions and open the way for other cooperation with the United States, and eventually enable North Korea to work with the World Bank and other international institutions.

From Reuters India. Apparently NK is going to detail what they have for nukes and blow up one of their reactors, in return they get a little bone. It's diplomacy in action--the kind of stuff some people have been saying the Bush admin is incapabale of, but apparently they've pulled something out here.

Remember during the debates, Kerry on the one hand hammered GWB for wasting time with multilateral discussions with NK, including China and Russia, saying if he were in office he'd immediately get it done himself, at the same time he criticized Bush for acting unilaterally in Iraq?

Just a tangent. I'm done...but it does look like diplomacy has worked here. It doesn't mean NK is no longer "the bad guy" but it does make it easier for the world to help them not be a threat and maybe not all starve.

Holy Diver · 06-25-2008, 06:35 PM

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Originally Posted by a.paul

From Reuters India. Apparently NK is going to detail what they have for nukes and blow up one of their reactors, in return they get a little bone. It's diplomacy in action--the kind of stuff some people have been saying the Bush admin is incapabale of, but apparently they've pulled something out here.

Remember during the debates, Kerry on the one hand hammered GWB for wasting time with multilateral discussions with NK, including China and Russia, saying if he were in office he'd immediately get it done himself, at the same time he criticized Bush for acting unilaterally in Iraq?

Just a tangent. I'm done...but it does look like diplomacy has worked here. It doesn't mean NK is no longer "the bad guy" but it does make it easier for the world to help them not be a threat and maybe not all starve.

Fukcing BULL$H!zzzzzz!!!!

I could see your point if it was only for TWO things:

1) If we had not been making threats against IRAN for enriching uranium.
2) If N. Korea hadn't already detonated a NUCLEAR BOMB.

So, you are telling me that if Iran tests a nuclear bomb, then says that they will blow up their nuclear facilities, we will take them off the terror watch list?

unreal....

you can't have this both ways.....Diplomacy works, if you have a nuke first? Gee......I wonder why Iran would want to get a hold of a nuke...hmmmmm?

***patsfan13*** · 06-25-2008, 06:38 PM

Guess we'll see if the administration asks to have them removed from the watchlist, until them it is just speculation, get back to us when something happens.

Holy Diver · 06-25-2008, 06:41 PM

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Originally Posted by patsfan13

Guess we'll see if the administration asks to have them removed from the watchlist, until them it is just speculation, get back to us when something happens.

word.

Its says Thursday.

in the meantime, it IS up to the peeps on this messageboard to sound off on this.

Patriot_in_NY · 06-25-2008, 06:41 PM

They must have capitulated quietly.

Sorry, but every time I think of Kim Jong Il, I think of THIS VIDEO. and THIS ONE TOO. (content warning)

"why is everyone sooo frrrucking stupid, and not intelrrigent like me........... I'm so Roanree, so roanree"

That is the funniest "stupid movie" evah.....

otis p. driftwood · 06-25-2008, 06:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Holy Diver

Fukcing BULL$H!zzzzzz!!!!

I could see your point if it was only for TWO things:

1) If we had not been making threats against IRAN for enriching uranium.
2) If N. Korea hadn't already detonated a NUCLEAR BOMB.

So, you are telling me that if Iran tests a nuclear bomb, then says that they will blow up their nuclear facilities, we will take them off the terror watch list?

unreal....

you can't have this both ways.....Diplomacy works, if you have a nuke first? Gee......I wonder why Iran would want to get a hold of a nuke...hmmmmm?

North Korea hasn't been talking about eliminating the stinking corpse of South Korea for the last decade either.

I don't get why you don't like this? The US, working with China and Russia and other countries, has apparently made huge progress toward disarming and hopefully bringing into the modern world a very dangerous (yet backward and desparately poor) nation, and all you can do is b!tch about it?

Holy Diver · 06-25-2008, 06:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Patriot_in_NY

They must have capitulated quietly.

Sorry, but every time I think of Kim Jong Il, I think of THIS VIDEO. and THIS ONE TOO. (content warning)

"why is everyone sooo frrrucking stupid, and not intelrrigent like me........... I'm so Roanree, so roanree"

That is the funniest "stupid movie" evah.....

Derka-derka...jihad.....derka

theat movie isn't stupid at all...its extreemly smart, and sums up a lot of the flag lapel pin wearing freedom frie eating preopaganda kind of partisan people who make up most of our media and political spheres.

otis p. driftwood · 06-25-2008, 06:45 PM

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/pres...-korea-as.html

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North Korea says it plans to blow up the cooling tower of its Yongbyon nuclear plant, the one used to produce plutonium to build atomic bombs, possibly as early as Friday.

That highly dramatic, televised act would speak to the North Koreans’ commitment to stop building nuclear weapons, the culmination of 17 months of intensive Bush administration diplomatic efforts.

You can see where all this potentially points. Cable news would run endless slo-mo of the crumbling cooling tower as b-roll to Bush’s proclamation that his administration succeeded in heading off one of the leading threats to world peace. For Bush, it would be a rare foreign policy victory. It could even stand as a top legacy of his administration.

Patriot_in_NY · 06-25-2008, 06:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Holy Diver

Derka-derka...jihad.....derka

theat movie isn't stupid at all...its extreemly smart, and sums up a lot of the flag lapel pin wearing freedom frie eating preopaganda kind of partisan people who make up most of our media and political spheres.

Yeah, but it's so fukcing stupid all at the same time. Shear brilliance

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