"Josh Hill"  wrote in message
news:6n1k43tn0ujhej3p0rvm7qv7lr881gnt4h{at}4ax.com...
> On Mon, 14 May 2007 23:09:45 -0700, "Vorlonagent"
>  wrote:
>
> >
> >"Wesley Struebing" 
wrote in message
> >news:c2di43da0qalp17rn5nq0rgbgl4f4qcoge{at}4ax.com...
> >> We might as well be making recruitment videos for the insurgents and
> >> imported terrorists.
> >
> >Half-measures are like that.
> >
> >By turning cautions (in an effort to minimize casualties) in 2004, he
blew
> >it.
> >
> >OTOH, be reminded that every time the US scores a major kill on a
terroist
> >bad guy the whole mideast seems to recoil.  Fishing Saddam out of his
spider
> >hole borught Khadaffi to heel, for example.
>
> Yes, it did. It also led to North Korea's and Iran's developing
> nuclear weapons. Score 1 in Bush's favor, 2 against.

Both had nuclear weapons programs, North Korea's dating abck to the 1990s.
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/dprk/nuke/index.html
"In October 2002, North Korean officials acknowledged the existence of a
clandestine program to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons that is in
violation of the Agreed Framework and other agreements."

October 2002.....several months before the Iraq war (March 2003).

Iran's had an enrichment program ongoing for...oh...18 years.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6122412.stm



Dennis


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