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Re: Oh good, we are going to play chicken with a mad man.



Um, exactly my point?  That you can't blame Bush for the last 30
years, as much as you'd like to.

On 5/4/05, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> lets see....  since the 1970s....  Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan
>  Bush, Bush.... all Republicans.  During the same period there was Jimmy
> Carter and Bill Clinton as Democrats
> 
> What exactly is your point?  That its Bill Clinton's fault?????   In the
> eight years he was president he was supposed to undo akll the damages done
> by Nixon, Reagan, and Bush(41)?  Isn't that expecting quite a lot, even from
> a Liberal?
> 
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> Booth Martin
> http://www.martinvt.com
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> From: Open discssion among iSeries Users
> Date: 05/03/05 23:21:17
> To: Open discssion among iSeries Users
> Subject: Re: [CPF0000] Oh good, we are going to play chicken with a mad man.
> 
> http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20050502-094119-9101r.htm
> 
>   North Korea started developing its nuclear-weapons capabilities in
> the 1970s. Bill Clinton's first director of central intellligence,
> James Woolsey, told Congress in 1993 that there was a "real
> possibility that North Korea has manufactured enough fissile material
> for at least one nuclear weapon." It didn't happen overnight. Decades
> of effort had brought North Korea to a point where it could go
> nuclear.
>     In fact, major advances in North Korea's nuclear capabilities took
> place during the Clinton administration. North Korea greatly improved
> its missile technology. It successfully tested the Nodong missile to a
> range of 500 kilometers in 1993. In October 1997, a North Korean
> defector testified before the U.S. Senate that Pyongyang had two or
> three nuclear warheads. In 1998, North Korea tested a Taepo Dong-1
> missile which flew over Japan and landed in the Pacific Ocean. In
> February 1999, Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet told
> Congress that North Korea's missile-development program includes
> missiles that will be able to hit the continental United States.
> During the 1990s, North Korea repeatedly shut its nuclear reactors to
> harvest fuel for bombs. It built facilities underground to evade
> international inspectors.
>     The Clinton administration's eight years compounded these North
> Korean successes. The diplomatic enticements and sweetheart deals it
> engineered or endorsed, including the Agreed Framework, all gave
> Pyongyang more resources and time to pursue its bomb.
> 
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