[quote]Headhunter wrote:
jason1122 wrote:
(3) There’s two choices. 1. Kill millions on both sides or 2. Negotiate.
(4) Yes, it did work. NK wasn’t building nuclear weapons.
(5) Bush couldn’t play a game of monopoly right let alone foreign policy.
For (3): If we take the man at his word and strike first, he won’t be able to strike at all. I suspect that, if Kim was destroyed, his troops would jump for joy. South Korea could then take over.
For (4): Guess you haven’t been keeping up with current events.
For (5): Where’d you get your Masters? Yale? Harvard? Bush scored better (or perhaps equal, I forget) to Kerry on the military’s intelligence testing. You libs are so seething with hatred for the guy, you’ve lost touch with reality.
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(3): It doesn’t matter who strikes first. When 4 star General Howell Estes states 52,000 U.S. Military casualties, killed or wounded, and ? million South Korean casualties killed or wounded in the first 90 days, not to mention the million or so civilians on both sides, it means that in the first 90 days - irregardless of who ‘strikes first’ - that many people will be killed or wounded. And if we couldn’t find Saddam for months after we FIRST struck Iraq than spare me your bullshit that we could strike NK without losing casualties. I’ll think I’ll take the U.S. Military assessment over your own.
(4): The fact that NK was NOT building nuclear weapons BEFORE the seals were removed isn’t contested by anyone. Up until 2001, North Korea’s main nuclear center at Yongbyon, 60 miles north of Pyongyang, was monitored 24 hours a day by U.N. surveillance cameras. International inspectors lived near the site. Seals were in place over key nuclear installations making it IMPOSSIBLE to enrich uranium (a key ingredient for building a nuclear bomb according to Betty Crocker). If I could draw this out on a Big Chief Tablet with a box of Crayola Crayons to help you understand I would.
(5): Bush scored better to Kerry on the military’s intelligence testing? That’s how you judge how well Bush has done on foreign policy?!?! Bush couldn’t spell OOOO with a box of Cheerio’s.
And let me just comment on the gulags in NK. I agree NK is a horrible place for those who live there but you could name a couple of dozen other countries just as bad, or worse. Turkey had the worst human rights record in the world during the 90’s but you didn’t see the U.S. balking over that. Of course Turkey is an allie so no need to worry about their human rights record. Rwanda killed 800,000 people with fricken machetes in 1994 but you didn’t see the U.S. up in arms over that either. But then again Rwanda has no natural resources to speak of and isn’t threatening U.S. interests so no need to worry about 800,000 people being slaughtered. But I know your heart is bleeding over those pore NK souls which is why you want to bomb them to death to set them free from their misery - just like we did in Iraq.