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Gore held back from going to N Korea to negotiate release of two US reporters
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| 06/09/09
Posted on 06/09/2009 9:24:35 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Gore held back from going to NKorea to negotiate release of two US reporters
Posted: 09 June 2009 1044 hrs
WASHINGTON : Former US vice president Al Gore was "held back" from travelling to North Korea to negotiate for the release of his two employees - journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee.
That is according to Selig Harrison from the Centre for International Policy, who said Gore sought diplomatic backing from the Obama administration in a private meeting on May 11.
Ling and Lee have just been sentenced to 12 years in North Korean labour camp.
Neither Al Gore nor the company he founded, Current TV, have made any public comments, since the two journalists were captured whilst on a reporting assignment in March.
(Excerpt) Read more at channelnewsasia.com ...
TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: algore; eunalee; lauraling; negotiation; nkorea; reporters
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To: TigerLikesRooster
“Held back”? Bwaaahahahahaaaa ... truth be told, it was simply because there was no money in it.
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posted on
06/09/2009 9:26:10 AM PDT
by
mgc1122
To: TigerLikesRooster
What a joke. When has Gore been "held back" from anything?
Must be more to this story angle.
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posted on
06/09/2009 9:27:12 AM PDT
by
LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot
("If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir"-Gen.Sherman)
To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; nw_arizona_granny; ...
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posted on
06/09/2009 9:27:16 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(LUV DIC -- L,U,V-shaped recession, Depression, Inflation, Collapse)
To: TigerLikesRooster
NO! Don't hold him back. Let him go to NK. Maybe they'll trade him for the two journalists, thinking he's worth more in ransom.
Then, when they realize he's worthless and that no sane country will take him back, the NK's will be stuck with him. Then, he can torture Kim Jong Il with non-stop boring speeches about global warming...err...climate change...errr...(insert latest spin-phrase)....
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posted on
06/09/2009 9:27:56 AM PDT
by
kromike
To: TigerLikesRooster
Why not send Madeline 'not-so-bright', Secretary of State under Clinton/Gore?
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posted on
06/09/2009 9:28:48 AM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Aw, let him go. He’d make a fine addition to the USS Pueblo exhibit in Pyongyang.
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posted on
06/09/2009 9:29:02 AM PDT
by
skeeter
To: TigerLikesRooster
Gore should offer himself in exchange. I would guess that if Gore funded their illegal entry, there’s 100’s of lawsuits on the horizon.
To: kromike
As I said, NK must be Gore’s idea of Utopia. Have you seen satellite photos of the Korean Peninsula? The only damn light bulb is at Li’l Kim’s crib.
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posted on
06/09/2009 9:29:47 AM PDT
by
LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot
("If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir"-Gen.Sherman)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
06/09/2009 9:30:23 AM PDT
by
Dallas59
("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
To: TigerLikesRooster
Neither Hillary nor Obama are willing to accept Gore getting credit for something they should have done.
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posted on
06/09/2009 9:31:26 AM PDT
by
MindBender26
(The Hellfire Missile is one of the wonderful ways God shows us he loves American Soldiers & Marines)
To: ETL
Apparently Li'l Kim enjoys American hair products.
Look at the lift and volume in his hair.
Probably adds 4 inches to his height.
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posted on
06/09/2009 9:31:41 AM PDT
by
LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot
("If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir"-Gen.Sherman)
To: TigerLikesRooster
He has been held back b/c he did not meet the new USPS requirements for “You fit, you ship!”
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posted on
06/09/2009 9:31:47 AM PDT
by
GnuHere
To: LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot
> What a joke. When has Gore been “held back” from anything?
> Must be more to this story angle.
Maybe the North Koreans threatened to put him in jail, too.
Not that I’d wish that on anybody.
Just sayin ...
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posted on
06/09/2009 9:32:17 AM PDT
by
Westbrook
(Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
To: Dallas59
Gore should go but only if he has to sneak in from China.
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posted on
06/09/2009 9:33:14 AM PDT
by
JPG
To: TigerLikesRooster
Yeah, then they’d have three hostages, one of them a former Veep. Obama couldn’t vote ‘present’ then.
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posted on
06/09/2009 9:33:41 AM PDT
by
PLMerite
("Unarmed, one can only flee from Evil. But Evil isn't overcome by fleeing from it." Jeff Cooper)
To: mgc1122
“held back”
oh, how mighty the chains of “no political gain or money to be made at this time”
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posted on
06/09/2009 9:34:01 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
("Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal ( Martin Luther King))
To: TigerLikesRooster
Prince Albert of Gore is a private citizen. He doesn’t have to ask for government permission. Unless, of course, he wanted an excuse for staying home while his two young employees rot.
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posted on
06/09/2009 9:34:05 AM PDT
by
joeystoy
To: TigerLikesRooster
Al was just insulted when the airline demanded he buy himself two seats.
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posted on
06/09/2009 9:34:05 AM PDT
by
dead
To: TigerLikesRooster
Held back? This man is a joke....I would have gone but I was held back.
OR as one of my former studets said...”I would have gradulated but I was held back”
Someone please restrain this man!
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posted on
06/09/2009 9:34:11 AM PDT
by
hoosiermama
(Hey hey! Ho ho! Where's your Birth Certificate/ We've a right to know!)
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