"Uh ... Al, we got a reply from Li'l Kim ...
says he won't accept carbon credits in exchange for their release ...
but he's kind'a interested in your Apple stock and your house in Tennessee."
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 ...
What is it with Lefties and their annoying penchant for taking it upon themselves to represent the USA WITHOUT ANY AUTHORITY TO DO SO!!??
I’d not ever work for ALGORE. Seeing this, I am justified in my opinion - nevermind anything else.
To the two misguided fools, I hope your family has (or can get) money.
The real question is if they ever get released will they tell all?
It is absolutly not worth Obamas political capital to try, in fact it’s downright dangerous to his ideoligy - afterall, he wants to “go fishing” with this guy.
I can only hope that the families of these two people stuck in a work/death camp will be well compensated to keep thier mouths shut.
It’s sad.
NOO Al Gore more of Manbearpig than Carniac LOL!
“The Goracle Making an Official Proclamation To his Minions of Gorons”
A little history:
In 1979, two EDS employees were taken hostage by the Iranian government.
Perot directed a successful rescue mission composed of EDS employees and led by retired Green Beret Colonel Arthur “Bull” Simons. Perot himself went to Iran and entered the prison where his men were held.
Ken Follett wrote a best selling novel, On Wings of Eagles, about the rescue. An NBC TV miniseries was later made from the book. Later in 1979, Governor William P. Clements, Jr. asked Perot to head Texas’ War on Drugs Committee. The group proposed five laws to deter illegal drug operations, all of which were passed by the legislature and signed into law.
Oh pleeeeeese let the fat ass go. Maybe they will swap him for the two hostages. Better yet keep him along with his minions.
AIT, TLR says you are the go-to guy on this?
How worried is MOS (newstalk for “Man On Street”) in Japan about DPRK?
Irritated. Pissed off to be exact.
Yes. She could go with that Condi Rice, seeing as they BOTH screwed this up under consecutive administrations, the most shocking North Korean progress made just in the last several years, during the Bush Administration to be fair and balanced here. This idiocy cuts across BOTH parties. Shame on all of them. General MacArthur would have these fools on the carpet!!
You’re right. Same goes for dealing with the ChiComs and trusting the Russians.
My sister-in-law is pissed off all the time, but never enough to do anything about it.
The question is: Is Tokyo's MOS pissed enough to do anything? about it?
An old source (in a position to know) once said that either Japan is in secret an undeclared nuclear power, of if they are not one now, could be one in 180 days if everything went wrong or 90 days if things went “right.”
What will the Japanese gmvt do about the DPRK?
PS, Good Morning!
:)
Even if I knew, and particularly if it were encouraging, I would never say it here on Open Forum for the Norkies to lurk and read. ;-) But one can assume that yes, things are happening, and Japan is not taking this lying down, although they are very controlled in their public pronouncements. North Korea is in for the surprise of its life, but it will be their own damned fault.
For years, nuc weapons were the 3d rail of Japanese politics, and the first DPRK test was obviously an operational failure.
But this test was a success. Is the MOS now ready to accept fissionable weapons in Japan?
Is anyone polling for an answer? On second thought, is the Japanese media as big into polling as ours is?
We could even use some of the old Pu from Arzamas-75 that we bought from the Ukrainians so we could deny any involvement.
Sometimes, these things just have to happen......
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