Come on!
Goddamit.
Don't we know by now? Follow the money.
Follow the stench of it.
Do we have to wait until they freaking walk up to us with guns and blow our brains out all over the sidewalk before we start calling this what it is?
My point is... we have all these great diaries about North Korea, who's to blame, why it's not Clinton... what happened, etc.
But nobody is saying why.
I heard it on Al Franken this morning and it's frickin obvious.
And the only conclusion here, and the only thing people really need be talking about (while they're taking a break from talking about Foleygate) is that Bush let North Korea get nukes in order to start an arms race in Asia. He did it so American weapons manufacturers will make money, like we do with Israel.
We need to start talking straight, people. We need to start being up front about what this is all about. We can't wait until Bush walks up and blows our brains out to call this what it is.
Rumsfeld sold North Korea their nuke reactors. (Picture Rummy and Saddam... you all know the one)
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Bush took away the checks to make sure those reactors weren't used to make weapons. He CHANGED policy in order to do this.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/...
Detailed in part, here by DelicateMonster
http://www.dailykos.com/...
and here by PatsBard
http://www.dailykos.com/...
People. Bush is trying to accelerate a nuclear arms race. Bush and Cheney and all the NeoCons/PNACers want to market small scale tactical nukes to the world. I'm sure they're already set to cash in.
That is one of their tenents. They friggin wrote it themselves in "Why Another Defense Review"... a modern day classic of course.
People. We really do need to start shouting what this is really about. I think.
Update [2006-10-11 2:36:12 by Kosmo]: Wanted to include a diary by Meteor Blades in which he explains why the small scale nukes we will probably use on Iran if we do... why they won't be anything but showpieces... I infer to legitimize their use.
http://www.dailykos.com/...