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North Korea Nuclear Watch: President Bush – United States WILL Stop North Korean Nuclear Transfers
President Bush makes remarks on the No Child Left Behind program during a visit to Waldo C. Faulkner Elementary School in Greensboro, N.C., Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2006.
AP: Bush: U.S. will stop N. Korea nuke moves
President Bush said Wednesday the United States would stop North Korea from transferring nuclear weapons to Iran or al-Qaida and that the communist regime would then face “a grave consequence.”
Bush refused to spell out how the United States would retaliate. “They’d be held to account,” the president said in an ABC News interview.
In light of North Korea’s Oct. 9 test detonation of a nuclear bomb, Bush warned that any transfer of nuclear material elsewhere in the world by the North would be considered a grave threat to the security of the United States. He previously used “grave threat” in relation to
Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, whose government was toppled in the U.S.-led war in 2003.“If we get intelligence that they’re about to transfer a nuclear weapon, we would stop the transfer, and we would deal with the ships that were taking the — or the airplane that was dealing with taking the material to somebody,” the president said.
Asked how he would retaliate, Bush would not be specific, “You know, I’d just say it’s a grave consequence.”
Make No mistake about it. If North Korea provokes the United States in this manner then there will be a military conflict, including the use of tactical nuclear weapons on North Korea’s nuclear facilities.
Stay tuned……
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Warns Against United Nations Sanctions
Russian President Vladimir Putin(R) shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert during their meeting in the Kremlin, Moscow. Olmert stepped up rhetoric against Iran, saying the its controversial nuclear program could be prevented through intimidation.
AP: Iran warns against U.N. nuke sanctions
Iran warned on Wednesday that a likely U.N. Security Council resolution for imposing sanctions against Tehran would wreck any possibility for a compromise to resolve the standoff over the country’s disputed nuclear program.
France has said a sanctions resolution will likely be circulated at the council by the end of this week. Support for sanctions is growing among leading members after weeks of talks between the European Union and Iran failed to persuade Tehran to suspend uranium enrichment and start broader negotiations over its nuclear ambitions.
Iran’s top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, insisted Wednesday that continuing talks with EU foreign policy Chief Javier Solana is “still possible.”
But he warned that “in the case that a new resolution is passed by the Security Council, we will not be in the current point to resume possible talks.”
“Resorting to arm-twisting through the Security Council would be considered a security threat to Iran and will change (Iran’s) behavior,” he said in an interview with the semi-official news agency Mehr.
Larijani said the West knows that their path would incite regional crisis, but he reiterated that Iran is ready for unconditional talks.
Iran, which insists its nuclear program is peaceful, repeatedly has said it would continue enrichment and is not intimidated by the possibility of sanctions.
“Iran will pursue its legitimate right, applying legal and diplomatic means,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Ali Hosseini said Wednesday, according to state television. “Tehran has no doubt of its righteous way in insisting on its right to exploit nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.”
What a JOKE. More Iranian stalling. The United Nations Security Council should impose sanctions first and then negotiate once Iran suspends uranium enrichment.
But, will Iran EVER negotiate seriously?
NOPE
Iran has a secret nuclear weapons program that would be inspected by the IAEA as part of any negotiated settlement. Iran covets a nuclear weapon and would rather obfuscate and delay past the “point of no return.”
The United States and Israel will NOT wait.
Stay tuned…..
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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.
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John McCain Watch: McCain Would “Commit Suicide” If Democrats Win Senate
U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., listens during a tour of the Lincolnway Energy, LLC ethanol plant in Nevada, Iowa, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2006.
Reuters: McCain jokes about suicide if Democrats win Senate
Arizona Sen. John McCain, a likely Republican presidential contender in 2008, joked on Wednesday he would “commit suicide” if Democrats win the Senate in November.
McCain, on a visit to Iowa to campaign for Republican congressional candidates, was asked his reaction to a potential Democratic takeover of the Senate in the November 7 elections.
“I think I’d just commit suicide,” McCain told reporters, to accompanying laughter from Republicans standing with him. “I don’t want to face that eventuality because I don’t think it’s going to happen.”
The Maverick who GAFFES it up.
GOP candidates for the U.S. Senate must be cringing.
Senator McCain sometimes it is best to keep things to yourself . Don’t you know that as a potential candidate for President in 2008 that you will be under a media microscope?
Certainly this comment will not help anyone except Rudy Giuliani.
Stay tuned……..
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Anonymous Assured Destruction
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, center, speaks at a Moscow Synagogue during a ceremony to mark its 100th anniversary on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2006. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert appealed to Russia on Wednesday to help block Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, but Russian President Vladimir Putin, in an apparent rebuff, offered him no public reassurances.
William Rusher: A world full of nukes?
It is therefore altogether possible that we will soon have to answer the unavoidable question: “Shall we use force against North Korea and Iran, or not?” Every responsible political leader, from George W. Bush to Nancy Pelosi, not to mention the horde of political commentators, owes the country a clear response to that question. For the next two years, the decisive response will be Bush’s; thereafter, it will be his successor’s. It may be possible to delay a decision up to some uncertain point, but thereafter the question will in effect have answered itself: “No.” (For the record, my answer would be “Yes.”) If, voluntarily or by the process of delay, “No” is our answer, let us at least be clear what kind of a world we will have opted to live in. North Korea and Iran will have nuclear weapons. (Indeed, North Korea already has a few.) Other nations will assuredly follow, beginning with their neighbors — Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, Turkey and Jordan in the case of Iran; Japan, Taiwan and perhaps the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand in that of North Korea. Then the floodgates will open, as every country in Europe, South America and elsewhere that can afford to “go nuclear” will do so.
Prepare the war plans. It is inconceivable that the western world would survive with the destruction/failure of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the widespread desimination of nuclear bombs and missiles.
And then? Well, for one thing, if a nuclear weapon goes off in some American city, against whom shall we retaliate? The world will become a malignant hall of mirrors in which we cannot even tell who is attacking us.
And if our answer is “Yes,” and we use force against North Korea and Iran? The diplomatic consequences, in the case of Iran, would be dreadful. And North Korea, in its despotism’s dying hour, might manage to evade our countermeasures and drop one of its small hoard of nukes on South Korea or Japan — a ghastly consequence. But not as ghastly as condemning the world to live forever in the shadow of assured, and anonymous, destruction.
President Bush will NOT be able to punt these nuclear crises to a future president. The time is NOW for a decision.
Yes or no?
Military action or not?
Or prepare future generations to live in the SHADOW OF ASSURED ANONYMOUS DESTRUCTION.
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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.
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Michael Ramirez on Nevada Democrat Senator Harry Reid’s Culture of Corruption
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Culture of Corruption INDEED.
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts ABSOLUTELY.
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North Korea Nuclear Watch: Condoleezza Rice Promises United States Defense of Japan
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, left, shakes hands with Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki prior to their talks at the prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2006. Rice urged the swift and effective implementation of sanctions against North Korea on Wednesday, arguing that the United States had no desire to escalate the crisis over Pyongyang’s nuclear test.
AP: Rice promises U.S. defense of Japan
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday the United States is ready to use the “full range” of its military might to defend Japan in light of North Korea’s nuclear weapons test, and her Japanese counterpart drew a firm line against developing a Japanese bomb.
The United States is concerned that Japan, South Korea or perhaps Taiwan may want to develop their own nuclear weapons programs to counter the threat from North Korea. Such moves would anger China, which already has nuclear weapons, and raise tensions in the region.
Part of Rice’s assignment on this week’s hastily arranged trip to China, Russia, Japan and South Korea is to lessen the temptation to develop separate national nuclear programs by reaffirming the U.S. intention to defend the nations most at risk.
In Japan, Rice said she reaffirmed President Bush’s pledge, made the day of the North’s test last week, “that the United States has the will and the capability to meet the full range — and I underscore the full range — of its deterrent and security commitments to Japan,” Rice said following discussions with Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso.
Proliferation of nuclear weapons programs is not in the interests of these Asian countries. China is the BIG DOG in the area and have plenty of NUKES. An arms race of nuclear material does not make the region or world a safer place.
However, Japan and Taiwan are understandably alarmed at preemptive nuclear attacks from China via North Korea – or from North Korea alone.
This pledge of mutual defense is appropriate and timely.
Asian nations MUST now squeeze Kim Jong-Il with United Nations sanctions, force North Korea back to the 6-party talks and negotiate a stand-down of North Korea’s nuclear program – as North Korea has promised.
What doesn’t help are Jimmy Carter and George Soros playing the Bush BLAME GAME.
Stay tuned……
An elderly Chinese woman gestures as she chats with another near the flags of China and North Korea on the waterfront of Dandong in northeast China, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2006. In 1950 China sends hundreds of thousands of ‘volunteers’ to the aid of North Korea which was nearly defeated by a combined force of United Nations, South Korean and U.S. forces. The war ended in a truce in 1953 and China had an estimated 945,000 dead and wounded, North Korea 522,00.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir October 18, 2006