From: "Robert Comer" 

> I think it's a purposefull distraction ("fear spin" if you
will) allowing
> Pres Bush to go "look at the axis of evil threatening us......we must
reduce
> the number of evil-doooooooers in the world starting with the weakest &
most
> vulnerable".

It was a U.N. resolution, not just us, wasn't it -- how else could we stop the oil?

Anyway, N.K isn't what I'd call weak. Even with their economic problems the
still have the military hardware...

- Bob Comer


"Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
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> Yup.
>
> Agreement = "You give NK oil & NK shuts down Nukes" ergo
"You stop oil &
NK
> restarts nukes".
>
> I think it's a purposefull distraction ("fear spin" if you
will) allowing
> Pres Bush to go "look at the axis of evil threatening us......we must
reduce
> the number of evil-doooooooers in the world starting with the weakest &
most
> vulnerable".
>
>
> Adam
>
> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
> news:3e0d11a1$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > I saw that and it certainly doesn't bode well.  The Koreans are used to
> > posturing, but I expect the withholding of the fuel oil was a huge
> mistake.
> >
> > - Bob Comer
> >
> >
> > "Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
> > news:3e0d0c6c{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > Next hot spot looks like Korea again.  Just saw reports that the
> N.Koreans
> > > have moved machine guns back into the DMZ.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Glenn M.
> > >
> > >
> > > "Geo."  wrote in message
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> > > > "Adam Flinton" 
wrote in message
> > > > news:3e0cedcf{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > >
> > > > > > That was just an ounce or two. Take a 5gal
bucket full of the
same
> > > > power,
> > > > > > sprinkle it out of a plane at 1000 ft above a
major city, you
just
> > > > created
> > > > > > chernobyl. There is no way to contain it or
to clean it up, you
> just
> > > > close
> > > > > > off the area and keep people out.
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Nope coz unless it's in small dust then it ain't
getting into the
> > lungs
> > > in
> > > > > which case the worst you have is nasty black patches on your
hands.
> > > >
> > > > I did say a 5gal bucket of the same power didn't I? I
realize it has
> to
> > be
> > > a
> > > > dangerous substance to have the effect, if it's not in
a dangerous
> form
> > > then
> > > > it won't do much of anything.
> > > >
> > > > > Not individual suicidal. Mass suicidal. Global
suicidal. e.g.
> imagine
> > an
> > > > > engineered smallpox. That's a different kettle of
fish entirely.
> Even
> > > > worse
> > > > > imagine a GM flu.
> > > >
> > > > Sort of like starting a nuclear war huh?  Perhaps you believe the
> world
> > > > would be a better place if all countries had nukes
because then they
> > would
> > > > all have to act responsibly and not blow up the world
by starting a
> nuke
> > > > war? Sorta like Pakistan and India, had they not been
nuclear powers
> > they
> > > > most certainly would have escalated the war?
> > > >
> > > > somehow that line of thought doesn't make me feel any safer.
> > > >
> > > > Geo.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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