Cleaning Up After Himself?
With all his attention focused on his legacy, Bush is trying to clean up the mess he made when he pronounced Iraq, Iran and North Korea as the “axis of evil”. By playing nice with North Korea after their PR stunt today, blowing up their nuclear plant, Bush will now claim that he has fixed two on the evil axis, and with a little strategic bombing of Iran, he will make it a trifecta: And the world will be safer now as he bicycles into the sunset. Meanwhile, his trio of tintinnabulators–Lindsey, John and Joe–will praise his vision and courage.  But historians will say, he came, he saw, and he fecked things up, and no, we are not safer.
Posted: June 27th, 2008 under Best of the Blogs.
Comments: 12
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Comment from Pat
Time: June 27, 2008, 12:49 pm
Mr Jong-il - Tear down that nuclear plant!
Keith Olberman last, night reminded his listeners of the way bushco criticized Bill Clinton for talking to North Korea, and accused Obama of “appeasement” when he said he would talk to our enemies. Now bush is trying to make diplomacy a part of his legacy.
Conditions in Iraq do not seem to be improving, in fact there has been a little backsliding lately, and it seems to me that bush can only say he “fixed” Iraq if that country agrees go along with this ridiculous Status of Forces thing he is trying to force on them. I only hope that Iraq is not stupid enough to give up its sovereignty for bush’s legacy.
Our idiot-in-chief has totally screwed up this country over the last 7+ years, and I doubt if getting a country that was never a real threat to us, to blow up a nuclear plant in exchange for jet fuel is going to impress the historians.
Comment from Max
Time: June 27, 2008, 5:43 pm
I have never believed that the NK’s have a bomb. They faked that explosion some years back. All it was was a huge a amount of conventional laced with nuclear material. Their missiles for the most pat don’t take off. They have had one semi success with homegrown missiles.
They cannot manufacture bicycles. When Japan banned NK merchant ships from Japanese ports some years back, they left crammed to the mastheads with used Japanese bicycles. I seriously doubt that a country that cannot make a bicycle can make a bomb.
Their whole country produces nothing but mass celebratory games to tell how wonderful life is. It is a massive con game, and they have conned a desperate George Bush.
Poor little Georgie boy, no legacy here.
Comment from tom
Time: June 27, 2008, 8:19 pm
The libs can never give Bush and co any credit. It’s sad. This should be a momentous event in history. The strategy worked. But the liberal press is downplaying the significance of this achievement.
Comment from Max
Time: June 28, 2008, 4:12 am
Tom,
i am very sorry, but there is no achievement here involved. The NK’s never had a bomb. The NK’s never had a workable missile that could deliver a bomb somewhere.
So who is to be scared of North Korea? And they have stopped kidnapping Japanese civilians off our beaches since the Japanese Coast Guard has started shooting back.
What really happened is that North Korea destroyed a program that didn’t exist to get concessions from George Bush.
End of story.
Comment from Amos N. Handy
Time: June 28, 2008, 4:56 am
Tom stay put, don’t leave the place you call home or there will be another village without it’s idiot. That will be your contribution and go down as one more significant achievemnt.
Comment from Amos N. Handy
Time: June 28, 2008, 6:59 am
Comment from Amos N. Handy
Time: June 28, 2008, 7:00 am
Comment from timr
Time: June 28, 2008, 9:28 am
Max, as I posted to you before I think that NK set off a nuke device because 1-seismic signature 2-U2 high atmosphere sampling 3-*classified* info-I believe that the various intel agencies vetted this to within an inch of its life, they ain’t gonna fek up again like they did with Iraq WMD and 4-because my brother in law, who has been with the KCIA since the early 1970’s, and who visited me here last year, said that NK did indeed have nukes, however, he said that they were very large, about the size of the ones the US dropped in Japan. Yes, the entire country is, more or less, a Potemkin Village-which I am quite sure that every govt in the world knows- but that does not mean that there are no smart people there. A delivery system now….
Comment from timr
Time: June 28, 2008, 9:55 am
McCain, remember McCain? This is LOL funny
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/06/27/mccain-predicts-hell-overtake-obama-48-hours-before-the-election/
Comment from Max
Time: June 28, 2008, 8:45 pm
Well Tim, you seem pretty sure on your sources there. I wonder if they cold fit that monster on the Ilyushin 28? That is probably the only plane they have that could carry it. And that antique would have virtually no chance of penetrating anybody’s airspace. Otherwise, the only way they could deliver would be by merchant ship. And that would indicate that the test they performed was an attempt at a real bomb but fizzled.
Comment from timr
Time: June 29, 2008, 11:08 am
Max, that their device went off low order rather than high order indicates that they still had some problems with purity, but they did get those fixed. I think that they got a lot of info on building their device from the “nuclear black market” run by the scientist in Pakistan. The NK’s biggest problem is that they really have no delivery system-I somewhat discount the missile that they fired over Japan, it was a one off, not a production model-also the fact that their people are trying to get to China-who doesn’t want them, and returns them to NK- by the thousands because of the almost yearly crop failures. It has gotten to the point that even their army is going on short rations.(The NK army has also become somewhat of a Potemkin Village, mostly due to equipment age and lack of repair parts) BTW, just as a side note, but have you noticed just how much shorter the NK guards look when in the same picture as the South Korean guards?-Peace Village. They actually look shorter than they did when I was stationed at the JSA-joint security area-33 years ago-(inside the DMZ)Which BTW is one of the worlds greatest nature preserves because people stay out of it for the most part for over 50 years now, when we went on patrol, we went locked and loaded, not so much because we might meet with the NK’s- which did happen about 20% of the time(bear in mind that I was there 33 years ago), but because of Tigers. One month after I left, my unit killed a Tiger that attacked one of the ROK’s on the patrol. I have a picture somewhere that shows it, big sucker.
Comment from Max
Time: June 29, 2008, 6:18 pm
You are right about the army Tim, I have read that they comb the yearly intake of recruits to find the biggest so they can stand at the Panmunjon truce village and look of comparable size to the South Koreans.
Theonly way I think they could deliver such a weapon as you describe would be by merchant ship. Yet Japan and the USN monitor NK merchant ship traffic, if they did something, we would know.
And I am getting really tired of Bush administration fear mongering. Saddam Hussein or Kim Jong Il, they are weirdos, but I do not believe in the concept of “rogue” nations launching one missile to make a point.
Our answer would be o erase those nations if they did so. There has been some stuff in the MSM and blogosphere that the Iranians are suicidal by nature. If that is so, then why has Iran managed to maintain itself as a nation for 2,500 some years? That does not strike me as a suicidal people.
I just cannot wait to get GWB out of the White House and some common sense back into public discourse.
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