Here on this site, the Gannon issue is overshadowing a much greater example of the Bush administration's incompetence and dishonesty.
North Korea has nuclear weapons.
Understand this. North Korea is headed by one of the most evil men in the world, who starves and tyrannizes his people. He's worse, by nearly an order of magnitude, than Saddam Hussein. He let nearly 2 million people starve in the famine of the 1990s. He keeps concentration camps and possibly gas chambers.
Bush invaded Iraq to prevent a dangerous dictator from acquiring nuclear weapons. Now -- a dangerous dictator has nuclear weapons.
For all his blather about the "axis of evil" and Clintonian "appeasement" North Korea has built weapons under Bush's watch, not Clinton's. We have no telling what they will do. They have the capability to strike South Korea and eventually Japan, killing millions.
Bush's head should be on a platter for this. This is an incredible, intolerable threat to the security of the United States - indeed to the entire world.
What if North Korea threatens to nuke South Korea if they don't unify the peninsula under his rule. Sound farfetched? Not to me. The end result would be bothKoreas left a smoking ruin.
What if he sells nuclear material to terrorists? He's done it before - North Korean-made WMD material has already been found in Libya and Pakistan. During the buildup to the Iraq war, Bush blathered about a mushroom cloud over Manhattan "proving" Saddam had nukes. Meanwhile, he ignored the one place that really would provide said WMDs.
For the life of me, I don't understand why this isn't dominating the evening news and terrifying the s--t out of Americans. We are facing the prospect of nuclear war - either directly in Korea, or indirectly, here at home. In the absolute worst case, this could be the end of the world. The real deal.