I Think I've Seen This Movie Before
"Morons" is the only word to describe these. . .these. . .morons:
Last October, the North Koreans tested their first nuclear device, the fruition of decades of work to make a weapon out of plutonium.For nearly five years, though, the Bush administration, based on intelligence estimates, has accused North Korea of also pursuing a secret, parallel path to a bomb, using enriched uranium. That accusation, first leveled in the fall of 2002, resulted in the rupture of an already tense relationship: The United States cut off oil supplies, and the North Koreans responded by throwing out international inspectors, building up their plutonium arsenal and, ultimately, producing that first plutonium bomb.
But now, American intelligence officials are publicly softening their position, admitting to doubts about how much progress the uranium enrichment program has actually made. The result has been new questions about the Bush administration’s decision to confront North Korea in 2002.
“The question now is whether we would be in the position of having to get the North Koreans to give up a sizable arsenal if this had been handled differently,” a senior administration official said this week.
. . .Two administration officials, who declined to be identified, suggested that if the administration harbored the same doubts in 2002 that it harbored now, the negotiating strategy for dealing with North Korea might have been different — and the tit-for-tat actions that led to October’s nuclear test could, conceivably, have been avoided.
Because WorstPresidentEver decided to engage in brinksmanship over an uranium enrichment program that is probably non-existant, scrapping the "toothless" Agreed Framework letting the North Koreans use the plutonium they already had to make the nuclear weapons that they didn't have five years ago. And we are supposed to believe these snakes about what they have to say about Iran? Fool me twice, shame. . .shame on you. . .