My thoughts exactly, people want to make everything out like there is some hidden agenda. What is there to dispute about North Korea?

My point is this.
As the war in Iraq escalated...so did terrorist activity in support of Iraq in "other" countries.
I don't have a problem with Iran or N. Korea....I just answered the question at hand.
Don't read between the lines and don't put words in my mouth

My argument would be that people have already jumped on the North Korea "Bang Wagon". I wasn't putting words in your mouth either, was talking in general. If I had meant to put words in your mouth I'd have asked you directly if that is what I meant :D

No problem...Sharni...Coastie

Politics turns friends into enemies
That concludes my Political contribution for July.
Now back to the T&A

The American government is making these distractions. Look at the mess made in Afghanistan and Iraq. Bush and Blair are being criticized like there's no tomorow, for what is happening there. Soldiers dying everyday, the rape of the 15-year old Iraqi girl by those soldiers who were supposed to be there to help these people. What better way to deflect attention from that by telling everybody a madman in East Asia has a nuclear weapon he wants to use?

"The only country in the history of the world to use a nuclear weapon is America, and I think everybody knows what happened."



Is that the case now? North Korea will not attack America; America will not attack North Korea. If America were so concerned about countries with nuclear weapons then North Korea, Pakistan, India and Israel would be top of the list. Not countries like Afghanistan, Iraq etc.


"This is all a joke; a distraction. "



See my first paragraph. The joke is people falling for it, you really think North Korea pose a threat? I suppose you think Osama bin Laden is a bad man, too?

Go to Google and type 'Tim Osman' in the address bar ... what do you see?

You see where I'm coming from, now?

North Korea won't attack.

They. Do. Not. Pose. A. Threat. To. The. Western. World.

The 'International Community' would not stand for a pre-emptive nuclear strike and it would effectively alienate America from the rest of the world.. As powerful as the US currently is, they rely heavily on the global economy and support for 'projects' throughout the world from other countries..

I doubt seriously Jong Il has any real thoughts of using the nukes anyway.. It's just a show of strenght to the rest of the world, whether they are impressed or not. America would be idiots to be suckered into doing something stupid because of a nuclear test.

Satyriasis,

The question Jax asked above was which one of the two nations, Iran or North Korea, was more worrisome, not if North Korea would invade South Korea (or any other country).

As the governments of both countries have behaved in ways which might worry reasonable people, it seems to be a fair question.

For example, Iranian President Ahmadinejad has described the Holocaust as "a myth". There are many people – including me - who consider comments denying well documented history to indicate an adherence to ideals which, coming from someone who would be in a position to initiate war, to be somewhat worrisome.

In 1988 The North Korean government launched a two-stage ballistic missile over Japan. The act is reminiscent of a warship firing its cannon across the bows of another vessel; stop or be destroyed. There are many people – the Japanese (among others) come to mind here - who consider behavior of this nature somewhat worrisome.

Of these two worrisome countries, North Korea worries me more as it has a documented past of bellicose behavior, while Iran has engaged in warfare only when attacked.

While your unusual punctuation indicates to me an emphatic belief in the validity of your vision of the future, there are many people - the sons and the daughters of the American soldiers, sailors, and airmen who were killed by North Koreans during the Korean War might be examples – who consider the future to be less clear or obvious. For those people of the West, as well as the hundreds of millions of Asians who live sufficiently close to the launch sites of the Taepodong-2 missile (6,000 km) to be potential targets, I’m sure you can understand why they may be less convinced of the benign intentions of Kim Jong-il et al.

Excuse me for responding to the question you asked Coastie above, but I do think that someone who plans, finances, and praises the murder of thousands of people is a bad man. So, yes, I do – as do many people – think that Osama bin Laden is a bad man.

Sorry, but not a single one of the results come back from a legitimate site that offers any substantial evidence? Most of them were cut and paste the exact same article and half of them the websites were named "conspiracy" something.

Intresting article, read some of the comments, they are from people from conservative to extreme on both sides.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/...7/14/do1401.xml

I worry more about the Yankees catching the Red Sox and knocking them out of the playoffs, which will mean no chance of them winning the world series! :D

:jacques:

It's all about priorities isn't it Winston? ;)

Like they say, Politics is serious, but Baseball is important.