Appeasing North Korea: the Clinton Legacy

Frontpagemag.com ^ | Jan 3, 2003 | Ben Johnson

[YaYa123]

If Iraq's nuclear policy in the 1990s constituted a "decade of defiance," Bill Clinton's negotiations with North Korea represented a "decade of delusion." Evidence that North Korea was violating the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty surfaced within weeks of Clinton's first inauguration. After a year of inaction allowed Pyongyang to create at least one nuclear weapon, the emboldened Stalinists announced their formal withdrawal from the treaty. It seemed North Korean officials were angling for a payoff. They must have realized they struck the jackpot when Clinton named tough-as-nails Jimmy Carter as his principal negotiator.

[YaYa123]

I don't think this FrontPage article was posted here, back in 2003. Good Grief, it's even more current now.

With Bill Richardson, Sandy Berger, and Madeline Albright all over the airwives re-writing the Clinton record into a Legacy of Lies, to cover all their collective asses, we need a quick dose of truth to clear the boards.

[YaYa123]

more info for our already cluttered memory banks

[YaYa123]

ping

[silverleaf]

And yet last week, even as DPRK missiles were splashing into the Sea of Japan, the major news networks (including FOX) were rounding up Clintonistas like Wendy Sherman for their comments on Bush's failed North Korean policy.

I actually had to go to CNN for less skewed coverage of the live events.

[malia]

Chris Wallace should have led with facts like this with Nicholas Burns. Instead we have to defend the mess the world is in due to the lack of leadership of the clinton Administration.

[jiggyboy]

In absolute seriousness, I had no idea this article was three years old. The first sentence is just as true today:

Democrats have begun a desperate-yet-predictable effort to blame North Korea's nuclear aspirations on President George W. Bush's strident rhetoric.

[jiggyboy]

OMG if I see that soulless hack Wendy Sherman bloviating the party line about how it's all Bush's fault one more time I'll kick the TV to pieces.

[silverleaf]

Check it out:

http://www.thealbrightgroupllc.com/whoWeAre.htm

(now raking in big bucks on the talking head circuit over "Bush's failed DPRK policies")

[Libloather]

Didn't *Bubba allow nuclear reactor technology to be transferred with the promise that they would only use it for energy?

What - is *he that stupid?

[YaYa123]

I know. Democrats never change, never.

I watched The Nation's editor, Katrina vanden Heuvel on C-span this morning, and she was quick to differentiate between "liberals" and "progressives". Usually you hear democrats use "progressive" in order to dodge being called "liberal", so it caught my attention when she vocalized there was a difference. Under whichever name, democrats know the value of Big Lies repeated loud and often. That's what they do.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Think of every major challenge/problem facing President Bush and the American people right now, and you'll find its origin in the Clinton Administration... Or at least you'll find that the Clinton Administration had the opportunity to address it properly but kicked the can down the road. Clinton's "Bridge to the 21st Century" is built on the foundation of cans kicked down the road on:

- The War on Terror.
- Containing the nuclear aspirations of North Korea.
- Addressing the mess in Iraq and Iran.
- The Israeli-Palestinian mess.
- Reforming Social Security, Medicaire and Medicaid.
- Energy Independence (did he do ANYTHING to promote new energy production in this country?).
- Promoting ethics and responsibility by corporate America (remember: Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay, et. al., committed their crimes on Clinton's watch).

This list could go on for pages and tens of thousands of words -- just visit the Federal Register -- and yet, historians and the NYT still yearn for the good old days of Bubba. Amazing.

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

For quite some time this nation will be paying a terrible price for the Clinton years. We've only scratched the surface with 9/11, the ChiComs, North Korea, motor-voter law, illegal aliens and on and on.

[God luvs America]

bump

[God luvs America]

wasn't there a senate report ala 1999 stating the potential catastrophic results of clinton's pandering to these little buggers???

[ncountylee]

We have decades of combined experience managing multi-million dollar organizations with tens of thousands of employees.

This lot of government feeders don't have enough business experience to successfully operate a lemonade stand.

[traviskicks]

These shipments have cost taxpayers more than $800 million to date - a bargain compared with the $6 billion spent on constructing the nuclear reactors, which now empower North Korea to produce 100 nuclear bombs each year.
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??? I think there are many innaccuracies in the above sentence.

[syriacus]

In a book on the US Presidents, the chapter about Clinton's contributions to America's future would be blank.

Clinton wasn't our 42nd President. He was a self-indulgent book mark between the 41st President and the 43rd President.

[syriacus]

historians and the NYT still yearn for the good old days of Bubba. Amazing.

Liberals are happy to live in their dream world, rather than work with the real world.
Unfortunately their last President left a phantom legacy regarding peace, security, and economic well-being.

[garbageseeker]

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. " -- Winston Churchill

[Cobra64]

more info for our already cluttered memory banks

I'm with you on that. Maybe someone has catalogued the failures of Carter and Clinton into one bullet-point list. I've seen parts and pieces in the past but did not think to consolidate into one document.

So many libs around here are blaming everything on W, and I'm getting pi$$ed off to the point that I want to push the facts of Carter's and Clinton's failures in front of their delusional faces. Thus proving that those two are the causes of today's problems.