Here's a picture of the turkey in the White House in 1999
Posted on 04/15/2007 12:19:44 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Richardson, in North Korea, tours USS Pueblo
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
By FOSTER KLUG
ASSOCIATED PRESS
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.
The North Korean colonel who served as Richardson's guide smiled as he told the governor the ship was an example of continued U.S. aggression toward his country. Richardson and his traveling companion, former Veteran Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi, were then shown bullet holes circled in red paint and a video describing the maneuvering of "brazen-faced U.S. imperialists."
The USS Pueblo was captured by North Korea on Jan. 23, 1968, after being sent defenseless on an intelligence-gathering mission off the country's coast. It was the first U.S. warship captured since 1807, and remains the only active-duty warship in foreign hands.
Navy records show the ship was in international waters at the time of its capture; the North insists it was inside the Korean coastal zone. North Korea held the ship's crew of 82 for 11 months before releasing them. The ship was then moored in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang.
Richardson, a Democratic presidential candidate who is in North Korea this week to collect the remains of U.S. servicemen killed in the Korean War, said the tour of the ship was "unpleasant."
"Despite the success with the remains, this is a relationship with a lot of tension, and this shows that," Richardson told reporters after the tour.
He called the Pueblo visit "a lot of propaganda, but we're guests here."
Principi, who was a Navy officer at the time of the Pueblo's capture, said it was disconcerting to have something from that era still on display.
"It's very unpleasant to hear the assertion of continued aggression against the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea," Principi said.
Ping!
Why did he even go then?
Richardson can kiss any presidential aspirations goodbye.
Actually they are starving in a dark hell hole.
Because to establish these threads, and to keep them going, quite necessarily requires a CRITICISM of the current Bush Administration about face, appeasement and capitulation on the North Korean front.
Previously...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1814669/posts
I know. Pro-China business can exert quite an influence on both parties. Don't rock the boat, just make money, safeguard stock market at all costs.
This is one of the end result.
Very well said
Well, I'll play:
President Bush must be pretty foolish for sending this traitorous left-wing opportunist as an official representative of his Administration.
I’m only sorry I wasted my time putting in asterisks since the post was removed anyway.
Geez. A contribution like that. Go figure
At one time, I stood a 1/3 chance of being stationed on one of the “spook-ships” USS Pueblo, the USS Banner, and the USS Palm Beach, but opted for additional “spook” training instead. (And got assigned to Rota, Spain!)
I really, really dislike the N. Koreans. Really. Even more than hippies. And that’s saying something.
Democrat resume enhancement...ping.
Suffice it to say, you’re absolutely right.
IMHO, we ought to either take it back or sink it...
It's as if we have time warped back into the clinton administration when it comes to north korea.
The only thing more embarrasing than madeline albright going over there and partying with that pervert is richardson participating in this humiliation tour. We look like crap on the world stage as we supply n.k. with a video tour of a Presidential Emissary touring a shrine devoted to embarrassing the United States.
I could fault richardson for rolling over and acting like a pussy but frankly I expect nothing less of him.
What really worries me most is not what he's done in public to embarrass us but what has he done in private to weaken or compromise us that we will never hear of?
Considering even sending richardson was a mistake, actually sending him is surreal.
No,it's not an agression towards your country,just towards your murderous barbaric rulers that would starve their whole population while they live high on the hog.50 years of their rule has already made that country past the point of no return.
Unplesant? UNPLEASANT?!
What an absurd man. So much for his presidentail aspiration.
MI Ping
There is still no shortage of Americans (so-called) to publicly “grab over and bend their ankles” for our enemies—hell they like it!!!!!
Minor point, but it's not in Pyongyang. The USS Pueblo is actually in Wonsan, on the east coast, near the DMZ.
Otherwise, this is more of the same. The Administration is totally broken in spirit by Iraq, and has no will left to confront the DPRK. We're stuck with North Korea, as currently constituted, until Kim Jong Il dies. We may as well start calling him Kim Jong Fidel.
That demonstrates our president's continuing devotion to diversity!
Touring the Pueblo indeed.
Thompson/Tancredo!
Yeah, I used to think Richardson would be a good presidential candidate until I heard about this foolishness.
I don't tend to forget stuff, so I still want our embassy back from Tehran, now going on 26 years. Matter of fact, the mullahs are long overdue for sum scunion.
5.56mm
I was working at Camp Fuchinobe the evening that Pueblo was seized in Jan 68. We knew a lot of the guys who were working at NSGA Kami Seya, just down the road from us. One CTRC I knew was slated to pick up Pueblo at Sasebo, but he had some family issues, and was able to swap with another guy who ended up “in hostile detention.” My good friend worked in the Credit Union at NAS Atsugi and she was handling the accounts of the detainees, helping out their families.
what the hell?
i dont like richardson’s politics but he always seemed an honorable guy. why the hell is he allowing himself to be shown around the Pueblo? what about just say “no thanks, I dont feel well right now, must be the gruel you served me for dinner last night”
I have just learned of Governor Richardson's trip to North Korea on Monday, April 9, 2007. Richardson and his traveling companion, former Veteran Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi, toured the USS Pueblo, which is still carried as a commissioned US Navy vessel on active duty.
As a former naval officer and Foreign Service Officer, I am appalled that Governor Richardson and Secretary Principi would allow themselves to used for propaganda purposes by the North Koreans, who illegally hold the USS Pueblo. Moreover, their presence on the ship is humiliating for the United States of America and makes a mockery of the sacrifice of the crew who were held for 11 months. One member of the crew was killed during the attack on the ship.
Please speak out on this travesty. Thank you.
excellent site thanks
I wonder if Richardson stopped off for some dog penis soup and gasoline-baked clams?
Richardson,s expertise is in pimping for bubba clinton.
Did this left wing POS blame GW, Rove and the rest of us for the Puelbo?
Like Big Look posted, this appears to be some serious resume inhancement for this liberal.
How did Pelosi get on this thread?
You know Chia Pet loving this Tiger kiss your presidental asipration GOOD BYE BILL
It was in Wonsan but they moved it to Pyongyang in 1999. Towed it through international waters. All the way around the effing Korean peninsula. And WE DID NOTHING.
The difference is, pelosi took her trip without the President’s permission, in fact, against his wishes. There was no question that pelosi is guilty of a violation of the Logan Act.
This time, Bush did send richardson as an official envoy of the United States. (Richardson has gone to North Korea a few times recently on his own, definitely in violation of the Logan Act, but this time he went legally.)
None of the times he went did anything good for America come out of the trip, but this time, you can say ‘Bush’s fault’ for any negativity.
He's refining his foreign policy non-expertise as a prelude to Hillary choosing HIM as her running mate.
GWB is helping him along....no surprise here.
My prediction is not the first on this board.
Literally legions of prescient, brilliant and intellectual freeper posters like me prophetized this Veep-cast before me, heheh.
Senor Richardson WILL be the VP nominee after the primaries and the Dem convention are history.
Leni
What a scramble took place when the ship was taken. Nothing but a$$holes and elbows were moving to change things.
Yes, I remember that well. The A&E was worldwide.
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