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Report: North Korea offers asylum to Saddam
AFP via Babelfish translation ^
| March 2, 2003
Posted on 03/01/2003 8:43:29 PM PST by HAL9000
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To: umgud
Don't say that. We just cannot ever do that. Ever.
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posted on
03/01/2003 8:59:19 PM PST
by
Howlin
To: Texas Eagle
To: All
To: HAL9000
What's that old saw?
"The inmates run the asylum!"
Heh! Heh! Heh! Heh! Heh! Heh!
Pass the strait jackets please!
Can I administer the electro shock, sans tongue protector!! Pass the insulin please!Heh! Heh! Heh! Heh! Heh!
To: Howlin
There is actually an upscale nightclub in Pyongyang for international arms dealers.
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posted on
03/01/2003 9:02:11 PM PST
by
HAL9000
To: HAL9000
Damn! Couldn't happen to a nicer fella!
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posted on
03/01/2003 9:02:17 PM PST
by
JennysCool
(Gimme Shelter -- from idiots)
To: Steve Eisenberg
While I am all for Saddam going to a true Saint Helena from which he cannot escape, this sounds more like Elba. No more Waterloos. "Able was I, ere I saw Elba"
Sorry I couldn't resist the palindrome.
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posted on
03/01/2003 9:08:28 PM PST
by
Dengar01
(As I say to my liberal professors "Bomb Saddam!" IN my name.)
To: Howlin
I don't desire that we nuke NK. I just don't see another option, assuming action is needed. I don't believe Saddam has funtioning nukes. NK is another story. NK is probably better prepared militarily than is Iraq also. A nuke is a horrific device. But I believe our use of them in Japan actually saved lives on both sides. I can't envision our troops having to face NK's military hordes.
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posted on
03/01/2003 9:14:42 PM PST
by
umgud
(War determines who is left, not who is right)
To: HAL9000
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posted on
03/01/2003 9:15:40 PM PST
by
HAL9000
To: HAL9000
I knew Bush was good-- but I didn't think he was this good!
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posted on
03/01/2003 9:18:28 PM PST
by
RobFromGa
(Real Americans Support Our Soldiers 100%)
To: HAL9000
From Agence France-Press English language service -
Macau casino kingpin says NKorea offering Saddam Hussein asylum
A Macau casino mogul has conveyed an offer of asylum from North Korea to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
Stanley Ho Hung-sun told the Sunday Morning Post that high-level North Korean officials have offered Saddam and his family sanctuary on a mountain in the isolated Stalinist state.
"We have to take any chance to have peace, especially if it comes in the shape of good news from the East," the paper quoted Ho as saying.
"They told me there really was a chance to prevent a war, and said that Saddam Hussein could step down two days before the US and Britain started to bomb and he could call democratic elections."
Ho had no further details of the North Korean offer and said he was unaware whether it had been formally conveyed to Baghdad, where UN weapons inspectors are combing presidential palaces and other official sites to find Iraq's alleged arsenal of weapons of mass destruction.
No reason was given as to why Ho, who in 1999 opened a casino next to communist party headquarters in Pyongyang, was chosen as the conduit for the North Korean message.
The United Arab Emirates on Saturday at an Arab League summit in Egypt called for Saddam to step down to prevent a US-led war from devastating the region.
©2003 AFP All rights reserved.
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posted on
03/01/2003 9:19:18 PM PST
by
HAL9000
To: Howlin
Be careful about saying "must" and "not ever".
We might not ever do that. We don't want to do that. But, we must always have the option if we believe that the risk is too great otherwise. Delivery of nuclear bombs to the USA is a grave risk.
This is just pre-emption on a much larger scale, to counter-act a much larger enemy.
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posted on
03/01/2003 9:21:57 PM PST
by
RobFromGa
(Real Americans Support Our Soldiers 100%)
To: HAL9000; All
OK, eveyone get this . Stanley Ho, the man extending this offer to Saddam on behalf of the NK's has contributed large amounts of money to Bill Clinton and has well known to organized crime in Asia. See link below:
Mounties: Clinton Donor a Gangster
It is really remarkable how all of these individuals are connected.
To: HAL9000
Solely? As in only arms dealers allowed? Far out.
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posted on
03/01/2003 9:24:11 PM PST
by
Howlin
To: MJY1288
Kim Jong Il is really desperate for attention isn't he. My thoughts exactly. He's like a 2 year old stomping his feet for attention.
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posted on
03/01/2003 9:25:21 PM PST
by
Mr. Mojo
To: Norman Arbuthnot
Ah, Clinton's old Macau Connection. Thanks for refreshing our memory.
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posted on
03/01/2003 9:26:14 PM PST
by
HAL9000
To: Norman Arbuthnot
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posted on
03/01/2003 9:29:10 PM PST
by
HAL9000
To: HAL9000
Hey, maybe we'd get a two fer one...
To: RobFromGa
A few neutron bombs dropped on NK's million man army would do the trick. ...And the quickly dissipating radiation from such devices would spare the So. Koreans a fallout nightmare.
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posted on
03/01/2003 9:30:26 PM PST
by
Mr. Mojo
To: HAL9000
My copy of the SCMP doesnt mention anything about this. Could the French paper be full of cheap wine?
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