In article , Larry Blanchard wrote:
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Now, change "Iraq" to "NKorea" and tell me why we're ignoring a
country who might actually prove a much more imminent threat?

Ummm... let me see if I've got this straight. The President did the wrong
thing by invading Iraq. And he's doing the wrong thing by *not* invading
North Korea. Riiiiiiight. I got it.

Now, Doug. You can't answer him by parroting his question back. How
about the real reasons?

1. North Korea has a powerful and touchy neighbor.

... who doesn't like the idea of a nuke-armed NK terribly much more than we
do. It's no more in China's interest to have nuclear arms in the hands of Kim
Jong Mentally Ill, than it would be in your interest to have a loaded .45 in
the hands of the toddler next door.

2. North Korea has a very large army and fairly modern equipment.

Large army, yes. Well-fed large army, maybe not. Modern equipment? In a pig's
eye.

3. North Korea, unlike Iraq, really does have WMD.

Incorrect in several respects.

NK has yet to conduct an actual test of an atomic weapon, so the only thing
that can be said at this point is that they claim to have them. We believe
that the claim is probably true, but there's no proof of it yet.

And of course Iraq *did* have WMDs: the Sarin shell, and a few other items
that Fred and Dave were discussing, among others. The only thing that can be
regarded as *proven* (as distinguished from "possible" or "probable") with
respect to Iraqi WMDs is that we haven't found any yet in the places where
we've been looking. Doesn't mean they were not in those places in the past.
Doesn't mean they're not in some other places now.

4. Replacing the government in North Korea won't destabilize the regimes
in surrounding countries, unlike the hopes (forlorn?) the administration
has for Iraq.

This is a good thing. It is not in the interest of the United States to
destabliize the governments of any of NK's neighbors.

5. North Korea has no oil. They don't even have a pot to **** in.

All the more reason to work diplomatically, as the Presidient is doing, to
isolate them even further, while we wait for their economy to collapse.

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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

Nobody ever left footprints in the sands of time by sitting on his butt.
And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?