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North Korea Watch: White House – Syria Must Come Clean About Illicit Nuclear Activities
This undated image from video released Thursday April 24, 2008, by the Central Intelligence Agency shows a photo of a covert nuclear reactor being built in Syria’s eastern desert near Al Kibar, according to the narrated video.
So, while the United States was negotiating with the North Koreans about shutting down their nuclear program they outsourced it to Syria.The White House said Thursday that North Korea’s secret work on a nuclear reactor with Syria was “a dangerous and potentially destabilizing development for the world,” raising doubts about Pyongyang’s intention to carry through with a promised disclosure of its nuclear activities.
Seven months after Israel bombed the reactor, the White House broke its silence and said North Korea assisted Syria’s secret nuclear program and that the destroyed facility was not intended for “peaceful purposes.”
Top U.S. intelligence officials who briefed reporters said they had high confidence in the judgment that North Korea had aided Syria with its nuclear program and the intention was to produce plutonium. But they claimed only low confidence for the conclusion that it was meant for weapons development, in part because there was no reprocessing facility at the site — something that would be needed to enrich nuclear material for use in a bomb.
The Israeli strike on Sept. 6, 2007, ripped open the structure, known as the Al Kibar reactor, and revealed even more evidence to spy satellites: reinforced concrete walls that echoed the design of the Yongbyon reactor.
After the attack, Syria tried to bury evidence of its existence and erected a new building to hide the site. The building is not believed to house a new reactor, the officials said.
“This coverup only served to reinforce our confidence that this reactor was not intended for peaceful activities,” White House press secretary Dana Perino said. “The Syrian regime must come clean before the world regarding its illicit nuclear activities.”
Syria will stonewall the issue and North Korea have proven to be liars, thieves and terrorists.
The United States must trust but verify any further nuclear agreements with North Korea and make sure they include ALL proliferation activities.
In the meantime, uranium enrichment centrifuges continue to spin at Natanz in Iran.
Flap is not hopeful for a negotiated settlement with either North Korea and/or Iran. Moreover, the Bush Administration is punting the entire crisis into the next Presidency.
Speaking about the next Presidency, John McCain today challenged Democrat Barack Obama’s approach to diplomacy on Thursday, saying U.S. charges that North Korea gave nuclear assistance to Syria showed the folly of unconditional talks with foreign adversaries.
McCain said U.S. disclosures that North Korea helped Syria build a secret nuclear reactor destroyed by Israel last year cast a new light on Obama’s willingness to meet unconditionally with a leader like North Korea’s Kim Jong-il.
Without naming Obama, McCain said those who would meet with a leader like Kim “should explain to the American people how talking unconditionally to dictators like Kim Jong-il in the aftermath of recent disclosures advances American interests.”
And, we saw what giving an autographed Michael Jordan basketball to Kim Jong-Il accomplished for North Korean nuclear weapons development and proliferation, now didn’t we?
Stay tuned……
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North Korea Nuclear Watch: Syrian Plutonium Reactor Close to Completion
Iran and North Korea Targeted by American Nuclear Weapons
North Korea Watch: The DPRK Agrees to Disable All Existing Nuclear Facilities
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John McCain Watch: North Carolina GOP Pulls Jeremiah Wright Ad – NOT
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXxkctYRAZQ[/youtube]
This ad entitled “Extreme†released by the North Carolina Republican Party opposes Bev Perdue and Richard Moore for Governor.
Reuters says the ad was pulled.
The North Carolina GOP says no way. It will run once or maybe five times even though one television station has refused to run the ad.
Stay tuned…..
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John McCain Watch: North Carolina GOP Ad Flap Shrewdness
The North Carolina GOP Ad Flap
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Hillary Clinton Watch: Liar Liar
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zsrf4IrKHsE[/youtube]
Senator Hillary Clinton on husband Bill’s Weather Underground clemencies: “I didn’t know.”
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John McCain Watch: North Carolina GOP Ad Flap Shrewdness
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXxkctYRAZQ[/youtube]
This ad entitled “Extreme†released by the North Carolina Republican Party opposes Bev Perdue and Richard Moore for Governor.
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The North Carolina GOP Ad Flap
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Is it Time to Recruit Al Gore?
Michael Ramirez on Hillary Clinton’s Pennsylvania win
Some pundits think the Democrat race for President is Barack Obama’s to lose. Others propose there are other scenarios.
Flap thinks that it might be time for a call out to Al Gore.
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Barack Obama Watch: The REAL Bill Ayers Problem
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=HP15wJl9YPo[/youtube]
East Lansing, MI – November 30, 2007. Bill Ayers, a close friend of Bert Garskof, speaks at the MSU SDS Reunion. Garskof was a mentor to Ayers and many other SDSers… (Part 1)
As Michelle points out by referring to Sol Stern’s piece in City Journal is “NOT the damage done by the Weather Underground 40 years ago, but the far greater harm inflicted on the nation’s schoolchildren by the political and educational movement in which Ayers plays a leading role today.”
What he can be blamed for is not acknowledging that his neighbor has a political agenda that, if successful, would make it impossible to lift academic achievement for disadvantaged children. As I have shown elsewhere in City Journal, Ayers’s politics have hardly changed since his Weatherman days. He still boasts about working full-time to bring down American capitalism and imperialism. This time, however, he does it from his tenured perch as Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Instead of planting bombs in public buildings, Ayers now works to indoctrinate America’s future teachers in the revolutionary cause, urging them to pass on the lessons to their public school students.
Read the entire piece.
Here is more video of Billy (William) Ayers:
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=kNzYDnlpBDc&feature=related[/youtube]
Part Two
Scary anti-Americanism piped into our public schools.
Fancy that……..
Wonder why the private, religious and home school movements are alive and well?
Now, the question and the REAL dilemma/problem for Barack Obama is: Does he subscribe to these EXTREME and RADICAL anti-American views in public school
educationalindoctrination policy?What say you, Barry?
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Barack Obama Watch: Why Wasn’t William Ayers Prosecuted?
Hillary Clinton Up By 11 Points on Eve of Pennsylvania Primary?
Barack Obama Watch: Comparing Bill Ayers and Tom Coburn
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Barack Obama Watch: Writing Off the White Working Class Vote Part Two
David Axelrod, Chief Obama Campaign Strategist, Photo courtesy of The Page
Jim Geraghy is reporting that Bill Clinton is already taking a swing at David Axelrod’s comments yesterday about writing off the white working class.Expect Team Hillary to make a big, big deal out of this: David Axelrod, chief strategist for the Obama campaign, tells NPR, “The white working class has gone to the Republican nominee for many elections, going back even to the Clinton years. This is not new that Democratic candidates don’t rely solely on those votes.”
Bill Clinton yesterday:
- “I am sorry I am a little late, as you might imagine I got in a little late from Pennsylvania last night. But I just wanna say a couple of words about that. Hillary was outspent on television, three to one by almost 8 million dollars. And she won anyways, by 10 points. She carried, 61 of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties because of people like you and places like this,” said Clinton as he greeted the crowd that had gathered on a local baseball diamond.
- “And today her opponent’s campaign strategist said, ‘well we don’t really need these working class people to win, half the time they vote for Republicans anyways. And I will tell you something, America needs you to win and therefore Hillary wants your support and I hope you will help her in this primary in North Carolina,” continued the former president.
Obama’s natural base of support are young, educated, affluent and black. He cannot win a general election with this coalition but CAN win the Democrat nomination and HAS by cherry-picking Democrat caucuses in small RED states.
The white working class Democrats will find a home with John McCain and the GOP after Obama clinches the Democrat nomination. And, the Clintons will help.
2012?
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Barack Obama Watch: Writing Off the White Working Class Vote
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Day By Day by Chris Muir April 24, 2008
Is poetry dead because sex sells?
And, what about poetry in a new media electronic age?
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links for 2008-04-24
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Bill Clinton’s pardons of Weather Underground radicals Susan Rosenberg and Linda Sue Evans
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Writing off the White Working Class vote…..
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But, is Hillary really a stalking horse for McCain for an Obama loss and Hillary re-run in 2012?
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Michael Barone’s Pennsylvania Post Mortem: Even so, Clinton now leads in the popular vote, if you include the Florida and Michigan results, by 121,943 votes. And even if you include the imputed totals for the Iowa, Nevada, Washington, and Maine caucuses,