Richardson tours captured U.S. warship

The Boston Globe ^ | April 9, 2007 | Foster Klug

[amchugh]

PYONGYANG, North Korea --New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson on Monday toured a U.S. warship captured by North Korea in the 1960s that is now used to inspire anti-American sentiment in the reclusive communist regime.

[tflabo]

[amchugh]

Yeah, I saw that. Richardson has been trying to build a foreign diplomacy portfolio for a while now. We’ll see if he comes up with more condemning language after he leaves N. Korea.

[nomorelurker]

I thought he was there at the request of the President. Per your post I guess I was mistaken.

[John Leland 1789]

Richardson and a host of others on BOTH sides of the isle need to be sat down in a classroom and have explained to them how Communists and Islamists use these kinds of trips by American “leaders” and public personalities to breed more contempt for us among the slaves populations in their own countries. These little tours to places like their USS Pueblo political shrine are also used in attempts to mislead the remainder of the world as to their motives and about the attitudes of the American people.

I read where President Bush endorsed this trip. Bush needs to be in the same class room, sitting as a student. The teachers should be former Chinese, Russian, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Burmese and Islamist (and other) system slaves.

[rbmillerjr]

It’s frustraing for the average American to have to have wussies for leaders. It should be settled before leaving that a US leader will not tour the Pueblo. As a matter of fact we should have bombed it along time ago after our prisoners were returned.

[Uncle Hal]

What on earth is Richardson thinking of? I thought he was a decent guy compared to the rest of the Democratic candidates. They are all turncoats.

[rlmorel]

WHAT IS THIS????????

I cannot BELIEVE this guy would let himself be paraded around on the USS Pueblo. I just cannot believe it.

I have always said that if the KorComs would not repatriate the vessel, we should obliterate that poor ship with 5 or 6 laser guided Mk84’s.

Now I am thinking we should have done it while that traitorous SOB Richardson was parading around on it.

This is shameful and disgusting. I am appalled by this.

[greyfoxx39]

Dave, I watched a short clip of him in NK, and he looked pretty unkempt...his hair was sticking out, and he looked more “jowly” than ever. I think this trip will turn out to be a loser for him, poor thing ;0

[reagan_fanatic]

Gee - where in the article did it state that a visit to the Pueblo was part of the official itinerary? I must have missed that.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

What’s the big deal.

Richardson is just spending time with people who share his political philosophy.

Happens all the time.

Pelosi embraces the mohammedans, Richardson embraces north korean communists. Hillary, well hell Hillary embraces any political philosophy that places power exclusively in the hands of the elites.

I would be terribly surprised and not a little bit frightened if they weren’t openly showing their admiration and respect for these murderers and thugs.

It would mean they were acting out of character and that is never a good sign.

[rlmorel]

"...Richardson's four-day trip, which has been endorsed by the Bush administration..."

I do not give a flying crap whether it was endorsed or not. That dumb SOB should never have gone on the vessel. He should have refused, damn him.

[Unicorn]

Richardson has one eye open for Bubba,the mexican pimp knows talant.

[Nuc1]

The Pueblo was hardly a warship.

[reagan_fanatic]

That dumb SOB should never have gone on the vessel. He should have refused, damn him.

Agreed 100%

[Unicorn]

What ever gave you that opinion he;s a full blown liberal bozo.

[rlmorel]

I AM angry about this. Could this stupid clod, who apparently has enough brain cells to get elected governor of a state, not understand the significance of the vessel.

My dad was a friend of CDR Bucher...and he was also the Communications and Security Officer at Yokosuka when the capture occured. I don’t remember it, but my mother told me that my dad didn’t sleep at home for two weeks, he was in the communications hut on the base at the time.

He never spoke of it to me.

[NCC-1701]

It would be great if he could initiate the process of getting the Pueblo back. At one time, the NKs actually thought about returning her. The inevitable something happened and it still sits over in NK.

[BenLurkin]

You have got tp be kidding me!

[rlmorel]

Well...she was a ship of the U.S. Navy, and did have two .50 cal machine guns, so that does technically make her a warship.

COMNAVFORJAPAN (ADM Johnson) was against arming the vessel, and suggested the weapons be stored below, but made it clear that it was up to the Captain. In the end, they did have the guns on deck covered with tarpaulins, and never uncovered them.

[rbmillerjr]

The feeling of helplessness sets in when you realize what a bunch of total pansies our leaders are. The elites in this country are not as tough as the leadership of enemy countries...and they aren’t as tough as most Americans either.

They are disgraces.