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[catscradle]

From CNN: Bush: N. Korea can be resolved peacefully - President not so sure about Iraq

CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) -- President Bush said Tuesday he is confident a diplomatic solution can be reached in the North Korea nuclear standoff but said he fears Saddam Hussein "has not heard the message" and Iraq may be headed into war with the United States.

So let me get this straight... North Korea has admitted to having a nuclear program and just booted out the inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency while Iraq has opened its doors to UN inspectors, delivered all the papers they were suppose to yet we still have to go to war with Iraq?

New year, same old same old. . .

Comments

%*&@$!!

[wiebke.livejournal.com]

What I want to know is

SHIT HOW MUCH DOES GEORGE BUSH *SENIOR* HATE SADDAM AND *WHAT* DID HE SAY TO HIS SON?

Maybe it was "If you don't giddem, I'm chopping yer balls off..."

FUCK!

Pardon my French, although the French probably sympathize with my remarks here.

Re: %*&@$!!

[thebratqueen.livejournal.com]

It's simple. North Korea doesn't have oil. Put oil over there and Dubya would give a shit.

Re: %*&@$!!

[rosethorne.livejournal.com]

Probably would, what with the Shrub being an oil-hungry, vengence-bent bastard and all.

If one more person cites the inhumane treatment of the Iraqi-Kurds as a justification for war, I'm going to scream. I mean, it is a justification, but what about other countries doing the same thing? China and the Falun Gafa worshippers, for example. Are they chopped liver, just like the Jews in WWII until we were threatened? The United States is nothing if not a hypocracy first.

Unfortunately, nothing is going to change until the American public wakes up and smells the cesspool stench of the government.

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[catscradle.livejournal.com]

The analogy has been made that the Kurds are Saddam's people in the same way that the Cherokee were Andrew Jackson's people - in both cases it's tragic what happened, but in no way are they "his people". Saddam isn't gassing the people in downtown Baghdad. What happened is bad enough, but it sounds worse if you tack on that he did this to "his own people". They're outsiders that live in his territory. And I suspect the reason they won't say that is because we can get behind killing off outsiders, but not ones own people. =/

You're right, until the majority of people in the US stop buying into Bush's rhetoric, things are going to get worse.