John McCain is showing some balls and is actually defending the President and going after Democrats! No, I am not kidding. Here is the link, and here is the excerpt:McCain, long an opponent of Pres. Bill Clinton's framework approach to North Korea, endorsed Bush's call for tough financial and trade sanctions against the country and for a full, enforceable embargo on arms. The United Nations, McCain said, has the right to interdict and inspect all cargo entering and departing North Korean waters. McCain will urge the UN and US policy markers to punish the North Koreans' "bad behavior." North Korea, McCain said, has received billions in energy assistance through the "framework agreement" negotiated by the Clinton administration in '93 but managed to divert resources to secretly enrich uranium without detection.
"I would remind Sen Clinton and other Democrats critical of the Bush Administration's policies that the framework agreement her husband's administration negotiated was a failure," McCain said.
Oh my....did he get the GoiterDemon removed? Nah, he is just pre-08 posturing, I am sure....
OK, here is what an aide to Sen. Clinton does to show that the agreement was not a failure, from the same article:
Clinton believes the 1993 agreement was largely a success in that it deterred North Korea from reprocessing plutonium. Clinton credits direct diplomacy by members of the administration, who publicly rebuked and privately threatened North Korea in 1994. Clinton acknowledges that the national security apparatus failed to effectively police North Korea's hidden efforts to reprocess uranium in the 1990s but has concluded that the framework agreement generally contained the threat.
Uh.....huh? Either it failed or it didn't. If North Korea used uranium instead of plutonium to get nukes, then the framework failed. To play the semantics game and say, well, we did stop them from plutonium enrichment, but we failed in uranium...uh, no, you don't get away with that one, Hill...thanks for playing though. Your administration, because after all is you said, it was a two for one deal, hill and bill, failed to police the situation. You took a notorious bad actor at their word, just as you did with Arafat, just as you did with Iraq, just as you did with China. Don't lecture us now on the fact that, well, gee, we didn't have these reports of nukes when WE were in office. No, we didn't, because they WERE WORKING on it. You gave them the technology. This woman is a such a liar she can deceive herself.
