Let me put it this way... Did the N.Koreans unapologetically build atoms
bombs while Clinton was President?


NOYB wrote:
Yes.

No. Denying unpleasant facts won't change them.

... The difference was that they hid it the entire time, and the Clinton
administration took them on their word.

And verified thier actions (or lack of same) by careful intel work
including satellite scanning.




No. Did they do so while George Bush Jr was President? Yes.


They just continued doing what they were doing.

Really? Considering that they did not enrich any fuel (very difficult to
hide) while Clinton was President, then no, they absolutely did *not*
continue what they were doing.

They might have been working their way up to it, but there's a big big
difference between "working on the possibility of someday building a
nuclear weapon" which *might* have been what they were doing during
Clinton's tenure, and "building a nuclear weapon" which is what they are
doing now, or have already done.

Big success for Bush Jr. Almost as big as Harken Energy.


... His intelligence agents met with al Zarqawi and Mohammed Atta.
That's all what you'd call "proof".

Actually, that meeting is now believed to have never taken place.


Believed by whom? You? Democrats?


By me, yes... on the word of the CIA and the State Dept.


Now, that was rather long, NOBBY, and I don't expect you to actually grasp
all of it. The key point is that the US ambassador told Saddam personally
that the US didn't have a problem with his invasion plans.



You're full of **** on this issue.

Actually, I'm not.

... The idea that the US would give tacit
approval to the invasion of Kuwait...and then send 600,000 troops to the
region to toss them out less than a year later flies against any and all
logic.

Yes, it does, doesn't it? But then, logic really isn't the strong point
of either of the Presidents Bush.


... You'd have to be out on the farthest fringe of conspiracy nuts to
even consider such a scenario.

Why? Unfortunately, it really did happen. Actually, it wasn't a case of
giving tacit approval as of having no notion of what was about to
happen... a failure of intelligence (in both meanings of the word).


Yes. We were disgraced and withdrew...

Disgraced? Why? Defeated by superior forces when attempting to bring
order for relief efforts... a humanitarian mission gone extremely awry
due to the sheer murderous insanity on th epart of those we were trying
to help... you consider that a disgrace?

And you say you "support our troops?" Nice.


... and consequently appeared impotent
and weak to the Muslim world.

We've appeared impotent & weak, militarily, to most of the world since
Viet Nam. Appearances aren't everything, fortunately.

If the fundamentalist Muslim really thinks we're so weak, why don't they
attack us with military force against military force? Answer: they're
psychopaths, not idiots. They know we are still far too strong for them,
that way.

In other words, you're wrong again.

... Did you see it happen another way?


Umm, yes. A rather bone headed decision to use insufficient force, with
really tragic results. One response would have been to cluster bomb
Mogadishu to maim everybody who participated in dragging our troops
bodies through the streets... and all their families... but it wouldn't
have brought those men back.

DSK