WASHINGTON (CNN) -- North Korea test-fired a long-range missile and five shorter-range rockets early Wednesday, but the closely watched long-range test failed within a minute, U.S. officials said.
Let's send Cheney into the Evil Axis with Halliburton and other wealthy oil companies to drill for oil. If they find some great and if not they can lie about it and say they found a large deposits ( after all they have told much bigger lies than that!) Then we can declare war on N. Korea on the basis that they have a brutal regime that is a threat to world peace and they have WMD's (is any of this sounding familiar?). We will have to take the troops out of Iraq, we will have a good chance of finding WMD's and we can say it was not for the oil. Troops out of Iraq, N. Korea no longer a threat and the only thing we are unlikely to find is oil but we can say that we had bad intelligence information. Win/win situation.
Not a Bush fan huh? I am not a big fan either. Sometimes I wonder why we continue to bother with the Asia. All we ever hear about is one group fighting with another group or proclaiming their hatred for the USA.
To continue the original theme of the post, why not annex the whole of Asia? Then again, they're part of the same land mass as Europe so seems logical to just take the whole thing while youre at it. Clearly, Europe's economic clout coupled with the massed population of asia represents an unambiguous threat to the US National Interest (any definitions on that one welcome), so the UN should leap at the idea. It's such a big place, we must be harbouring some weapons of mass distruction somewhere, and several people in here are called Mohammed, which further strengthens the iron-clad case for pre-emptive war.
Come now - we have oil! We love Halliburton and democracy!
It seems the negotiations with these countries would be easy if the US just refered to its own "way".
You simply have to propose a law that you are willing to go by yourself and vote on it.
Of course, this is impossible because the US wants to have a better deal than anyone else at the table based on the delusions they carry about "equal" rights.
The lawmaking process is not that difficult providing the people at the table are reasonable. The US beleives in the Right to bear arms for defense but we want to be sure that we have twice as many arms as anyone else.
Equal. The woman laden buracracy in the United States could not understand the term on their best day...
Or we can just sit back, as many anti-war hyped up demonstrators say, and let these long-range missiles possibly hit us or our allies. Hmm... let's weigh the consequences of both...
War is contageous - we can't remain isolated and to ourselves, if we do, things like Pearl Harbor and September 11 happen. And then people like you would be mad because we didn't declare war on N. Korea.
What a wonderful world.
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| It seems the negotiations with these countries would be easy if the US just refered to its own "way". |
Oh, so the diplomacy we've been using for how many decades has worked eh? 
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Of course, this is impossible because the US wants to have a better deal than anyone else at the table based on the delusions they carry about "equal" rights. |
Yep.
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| The US beleives in the Right to bear arms for defense but we want to be sure that we have twice as many arms as anyone else. |
Definately agree there, too.
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Equal. The woman laden buracracy in the United States could not understand the term on their best day... |
Not a big fan of women's rights eh?
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Or we can just sit back, as many anti-war hyped up demonstrators say, and let these long-range missiles possibly hit us or our allies.
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Funny you should bring up allies when all this is going on in Israel right now. 
NK and Iran, IMNSHO, fall in line with the clasification of terrorists. Also IMNSHO, they should both be strippied of any threat capability immediately. | Quote: |
War is contageous - we can't remain isolated and to ourselves, if we do, things like Pearl Harbor and September 11 happen. And then people like you would be mad because we didn't declare war on N. Korea.
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Who should we have declared war on to prevent September 11? Perhaps, the wealthy Saudi's that we were supporting at the time or the CIA who employed Bin Laden to terrorize the Russians. In the same sense, we could have prevented WWII if we went to war against Ford and other American corporations who were investing billions in German steel that was used to build enough tanks to carry out its eastern campaign against Russia.
You can take diplomatic, economic, and defensive actions to prevent an attack but if you declare a war without a just cause, then you are only exercising empire. Our country is solely the greatest superpower on the planet and is the greatest threat to freedom and peace to the rest of the world. | cbf-cma wrote: |
Who should we have declared war on to prevent September 11? |
That's easy.
Iran. 1979.
Doing that and continuing a hard-line effort against terrorism would have prevented 9/11 and likely most of the current terrorism that's going on all over the world.
