In an anti-diplomatic hemorrhage of classic Bush provocation, an administration envoy paid a 'secret' visit to Seoul in order to explain
the administration's position, 'You're either with us or against us... and if you're against us then we'll rip our troops outta here faster than you can spell 'nukular'.'
That's right. ALL of our troops -- not just the 15,000 or so that we're already relocating to help mitigate the catastrophe in Iraq.
A U.S. defense official paid a secret visit to Seoul this week and told his South Korean counterparts that Washington might withdraw its troops if the two sides continue to disagree on various bilateral issues.
South Korea's Foreign Ministry acknowledged the visit by U.S. Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Richard Lawless, but refused to disclose what was discussed during his meetings Monday and Tuesday.
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The Foreign Ministry dismissed the media reports as "not being in line with the trend of close cooperation between (South) Korea and the United States."
While not directly refuting the reported comments by Lawless, the ministry said in a statement, "the Korea-U.S. alliance is not so weak that it could be swayed by comments from one or two officials." (as if those officials didn't somehow represent their respective administrations)
It's good to see a finely tuned sense of consistency between the administration's domestic 'policy' and its chigger-brained foreign 'policy'.
In other news: South Korea was liberated from the restrictions of being attached to a continent after North Korea (DPRK) simultaneously detonated 47 nuclear weapons along the DMZ -- officially establishing the world's newest island nation.
With us... or against us.