Kurt Ullman wrote:
In article . com,
"z" wrote:

Kurt Ullman wrote:

Africa or the great deal with NK that worked so well.

The deal that kept NK from even unsealing the reactor cores, never mind
extracting the plutonium from the spent fuel and making functional
nuclear bombs, until the Bushies decided no deals with Evil? You prefer
to let NK have nuclear weapons, because it's beneath you to deal with
Evil? That's the same attitude that the Arab states have towards
Israel, and it's just as dumbass there.
There is ample evidence that they kept going without looking back.
Also much of the original deal was in tatters because Clinton (and
others) couldn't stop fighting amongst themselves over the spoils of the
reactors to actually get them built. They were years behind on their
promises long before Clinton left.

Bottom line: When Clinton took office, NK was about to pull enough
plutonium out of the reactors to build maybe 50 bombs. When Clinton
left office, no plutonium had been pulled out of the reactors, which
were still sealed under UN inspection, and obviously no bombs had been
built. After Bush's "management" for 6 years, NK has an unknown number
of bombs and is undoubtedly making more.