Those dictatorships and communists that you grouped our free society democratic ELECTED govenrment with are by no means anything like our government.
Quite the contrary, we are very, very much like them in many ways.
As for Iraq, searching for WMD's (which some were in fact found)
Depending on your source, that is still up to debate as to whether any were actually found, but the general consensus is that none existed on a large scale. There were a few shells here and there left over from when he gassed the Kurds, but nothing new had been produced since that time, contrary to what Bush led the American people and the UN to believe.
Would you clarify what, exactly, Bush "wimped out" on? Are you suggesting we should have sent troops to North Korea?
Not necessarily troops, but a few well-placed cruise missiles would have gotten his attention and slowed the progress down. People act like the war in Iraq sat idle since Papa Bush turned tail and ran back in '91, but it hasn't. Our forces were bombing targets almost weekly for the first 4 or 5 years since then, and about once a month since that. Taking out scud sites, weapons facilities, shooting down their aircraft when they crossed the no-fly zone, frying members of the Elite Guard in their tanks when they crossed that imaginary line in the sand. Yes, this even happened under Clinton's leadership. So, yeah, we should have been employing some similar tactics with North Korea, too. There was much more
actual evidence of their nuke program than there was of Saddam's WMD program (which ultimately turned out to be yet another lie, forged between #7 and #1600 to con the American public into believing in the need to kill our sons and daughters), and he sent troops there. Based on the true information, even taking all the false information about Saddam's WMD's into account, the situation in Korea is far more dire than the situation in Iraq when we invaded. He and his daddy have wimped out more times than I care to count. Though I didn't agree with many of his politics, Ron Reagan was so much better at dealing with aggressive countries than Clinton, Papa Bush and Baby Bush combined. He just had a little habit of selling arms to the wrong people for the wrong reasons.
No amount of UN Sanctions is going to deter Kim Jong Il from doing whatever he wants to do. That seems to be the main underlying problem with our government and the UN; they expect other countries to think and respond the way we would. It just doesn't work that way. North Korea is so far apart from the thinking of 90% of the UN that it would make your head spin. You can't impose your culture, your beliefs, your morals on someone whose soul desire is to rule their country however they see fit, even if it means taking out a few other countries along the way. But that's what the UN, and more specifically, the US is trying to do. You just can't expect to thump them on the noggin and tell them to quit. People like Kim Jong Il and North Korea in general merely laugh at the attempts to sanction them. That's more than evident since he went ahead with his nuke test. Didn't slow him down one little bit, did it?
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