So, its going to be North Korea!!!

We all wondered what crisis Rove would whip up to deflect America's attention from the UraniumGate and no WMD's....well, its North Korea!!

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/07/15/nkorea.nukes/index.html

This will have to be a war to keep us occupied until after next year's elections.....thoughts?

They'll drag out their "diplomatic" efforts for the rest of the summer and fall, then the war will commence next spring, just in time to take attention away from the Democratic candidate, who will have no choice but to publicly support the war.

Damn, I hate these criminals in the white house.

The White House wants a diplomatic resolution to the North Korea issue....

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,91978,00.html

Want to bet that diplomacy fails??

I think they would view an actual war with NK as a bad move.
Now constant hype would be one thing but actual engagment would
be too much, considering how taxed our military is becoming.

I also think the sheeple are getting tired of perpetual war.

We can't afford it. Of course, bush will spin it to "we can't afford not to." Wake up, America.

Bush will have to call off elections
due to terra! The Supreme Court will be called in to
verify the move (Congress will ratify the move as well).

If the bushies launch an unprovoked attack on the people of North Korea, they don't have nukes. Like the school yard bully, they won't attack anyone capable of mounting a viable defense.

it WILL be nuculer. Everyone be sure to stock up on sunblock...

in a M.A.S.H. unit ah good times good times. The old fasioned Asian land war, best WAR EVER!

North Korea is where all of our efforts should have been made over the last couple of years. It is the main reason that everyone should be afraid of having an inept fool running the nation.

There's many schools of thought on whether we can negotiate a peaceful settlement or whether we will have to strike in some way. I just hope that politics can be thrown aside on this one because if it comes to blows we'll probably end up with some scars as well.

In my opinion the only way to keep politics out of this is to have the full trust of the country, and that cannot happen with the current administration. I hope Hastert is receiving the kind of briefs that he's going to need as the next President.

But BushCo is not chicken-hawk about N. Korea they are chicken-shit. I'm sure they shit down pant legs whenever they have to even think about dealing with 'the craziest Katie-bar-the-door fuckers on the planet'. They just had to, first, go use Clinton's army on a country they knew; or at least thought they could take hands down before 'the kids' re-election bullshit. And it will be bullshit make no mistake.

Quick cut to a seedy N. Korean arms peddler in a swirling dust and wind blown, trash filled alley lifting the drape of his London Fog trench coat,

"Yo, my man! Hijack the world, Baby. WMD? 'the kind. Right here. Brought to you by the belligerent inattention to proper detail of George W. Bush. Check it out, Holmes..."

All of the Cuba stories, about them jamming satellites broadcasting into Iran, I believe, are coming from the administration. Based on who's turning up the heat on what, I'm thinking Cuba. Moral judgements aside, I think that it would be much less confrontational that starting any real shit with NK. After all, our pre-emptive strategy only really "works" when the opponant cannot fight back with nuclear weapons to stop our overwhelming force. Once they have nuclear weapons, they can level the playing field, something we desperately must avoid to ensure "victory".

Also, the Cuban-American population, especially in Florida, are overwhelmingly for Castro's overthrow, from everything I've seen.

PB

will be much more skeptical when it comes to signing on, and we would need a coalition of the willing. Plus our economy cannot get stretched any further, so I don't know how successful this would be.

There is also a LOT of skeptism about the whole 9/11 debaucle which is under investigation and which automatically makes any new "terrorist" attack incentive questionable at best.

And if Peter Jenning's interviews this evening with soldiers in Iraq is any indication of soldier morale...I wouldn't be surprised if there were some cases of rebellion by service personnel under Rumsfeld/Bush.