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Last June, four months before the current crisis over North Korea became public, the Central Intelligence Agency delivered a comprehensive analysis of North Korea's nuclear ambitions to President Bush and his top advisers.
The document, known as a National Intelligence Estimate, was classified as Top Secret S.C.I. (for "sensitive compartmented information"), and its distribution within the government was tightly restricted. The C.I.A. report made the case that North Korea had been violating international law—and agreements with South Korea and the United States—by secretly obtaining the means to produce weapons-grade uranium.
The document's most politically sensitive information, however, was about Pakistan. Since 1997, the C.I.A. said, Pakistan had been sharing sophisticated technology, warhead-design information, and weapons-testing data with the Pyongyang regime. Pakistan, one of the Bush Administration's important allies in the war against terrorism, was helping North Korea build the bomb.
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Originally posted by Shamanator
George W Bush is without a doubt one of the best presidents in recent American history
Originally posted by kozmo
and for the sake of the ATS TOS, I won't name names, are just entirely too stupid to be allowed into the public domain - be it physical or electronic. Bush is at fault for NK nukes... HILARIOUS!!! I've heard it all now!
you dolts... like the morons that you are... If you were smart enough...you idiots... you lack the axons and dendrites necessary to process a cogent thought on the matter!
Sadly, I was under the belief that ATS was a place to DENY IGNORANCE - yet I can see that it is being embraced ever so closely by a select number of people. So sad!
Iran blames U.S. for N. Korea nuke test
AP - October 9, 2006
TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian state radio Monday blamed North Korea's reported nuclear test on U.S. pressure, accusing Washington of "humiliating" the impoverished communist country.
"Not only did the United States not lift the sanctions it had imposed on North Korea, it even increased the diplomatic pressure. Such pressure finally led North Korea to conduct its nuclear test," Iranian state radio said in a commentary.
"North Korea's nuclear test was a reaction to America's threats and humiliation," it said.
Iran has said it will not abandon uranium enrichment despite the threat of international sanctions over its disputed nuclear program, which Tehran insists is purely for peaceful purposes to be used for nuclear energy.
President Bush on Monday said the United States was still attempting to confirm that a nuclear test in North Korea had actually taken place. Still, he said, "such a claim itself constitutes a threat to international peace and security."
Iranian state radio accused Washington of "double standards" in its policy on nuclear nonproliferation, pointing to its attitude toward Israel and India. India has tested a nuclear bomb and Israel is widely believed to possess such weapons, but the United States is not currently applying sanctions against them.
In an oblique message to the United Nations, which is considering taking steps against Iran's nuclear program, Iranian state radio said that the Security Council should not punish North Korea but disarm the nuclear arsenals of the great powers.
"Instead of imposing comprehensive sanctions on North Korea ... it would be better if the U.N. Security Council adopt a wise decision and seek full implementation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty," it said.
"That is to say, it should seek to disarm the countries that currently possess nuclear weapons and provide conditions so that signatories to the treaty will be able to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes," it said.
Yahoo News
Originally posted by kozmo
Bush is at fault for global warming, high gas prices, a poor economy, the housing bust, ad nauseum...
Originally posted by DickBinBush
Yes, I was under the belief that it was DENY IGNORANCE here at ATS as well..
So tell me..if you support Bush or claim he's the best president ever..aren't you embracing ignorance there? I was also under the assumption if you EMBRACE bush..then you're embracing ignorance..just a thought..
you dolts will find just about anything to blame on Bush and parrot it around like the morons that you are. If you were smart enough to read or employ logic then you would dig into a few history books, locate some timely periodicals (Those are magazines and newspapers to you idiots!) and begin to piece together exactly HOW it is that NK came about nukes.
I could provide hundreds of links that would be a good start, but why should I do your homework when you have proven, yet again, that you lack the axons and dendrites necessary to process a cogent thought on the matter!
Sadly, I was under the belief that ATS was a place to DENY IGNORANCE - yet I can see that it is being embraced ever so closely by a select number of people. So sad!