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Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Two can play the pre-emptive strike game
Posted by Jill | 11:12 PM

First the Bush Administration was obsessed with Iraq. Now that they've broken Iraq, they're looking at the shiny new bauble that is Iran. We will no doubt be bombing Iran by mid-October. But in all the hubbub about Bush's Baubles in the Middle East, insisting that we have the right to pre-emptively strike anyone we see as a threat, there's another country out there that actually DOES have nuclear weapons NOW, the leader of which believes he can play this game too:

North Korea said Tuesday that it had the ability to launch a pre-emptive attack on the United States in its latest threat since being told it must stop its illegal trade activities.
"Our strong revolutionary might put in place all measures to counter (a) possible U.S. pre-emptive strike," the North Korea Foreign Ministry said, according to the Korean Central News Agency. "Pre-emptive strike is not the monopoly of the United States."

The ministry also said the North had built atomic weapons to counter the U.S. nuclear threat.

"We made nuclear weapons because of a nuclear threat from the United States," the ministry said.

The CIA has said the North may have enough plutonium from its nuclear program for at least a half-dozen weapons.


Now aren't you glad that Bush has made us safer by invading one country that can't touch us and another one that's years away from nuclear capability?
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