Friday, April 25, 2008

Another Bush scam--Pyongyang's Syria nuclear reactor?

Herr Bush has become a born-again hardliner on North Korea. This at a time when his negotiator is engaging on 'delicate' negotications with Pyongyang to live up to the terms of a signed agreement that it would furnish a full and complete laundry list of its nuclear activities and its helping other nations with nuclear projects. Obviously the sheep's clothing is torn off the intransigent wolf lying beneath. Herr Bush has a visceral dislike of Kim Jong il; he still thinks, the Kim regime is the devil's helper. He has never given up his idea that as the devil's avenging incubus he can bring regime change to North Korea. With this as a backdrop, what are to make of Herr Bush's senior CIA emissary to Capitol Hill with the smoking gun of North Korea's hand in building Syria's nuclear reactor[s]? The CIA officier's testimony has been greeted even by hard core Republicans with some skepticism. It is a difficult pill to swallow given the unrealability of Herr Bush's propaganda machine. No one has forgotten his lying ways into the war in Iraq, nor the 'proofs' he & co. came up to push for a pre emptive strike against Saddam Hussein, nor the clients the CIA used to bolster Herr Bush's plans for war. Yet the world press is ready to gobble up this 'proof' for the sale of sagging newspaper sales. Even some CIA officials, past and present, feel the data is low profile, and what's more the more photo that Herr Bush's allowed for public view, is not a picture of a reactor at the site in Syria that the Israeli's bombed on 6 September 2007. No one in the press has put Herr Bush's evidence to the laser light of verification. Will journalists let him have yet another free ride as they did with few exceptions in the case of Iraq? That remains to be seen! No one has questioned Israel's designs in the Middle East, despite a story floated in the press that Tel Aviv is willing to come to a settlement of the Golan Heights which it has occupied for the last 41 years. So what can conclusions can we draw from the latest offensive against North Korea Herr Bush is leading. One, the hardliners have scored a point; two, Herr Bush is trying to snatch victory from the failing negotiations with Pyongyang during which he has steadfastly let opportunities for agreement slip by; he is playing switch and bait feverishly for a foreign policy 'win' which can burnish somewhat his failed foreign policy initiatives here, there, and everywhere in the world. Where will all this lead? More likely Pyongyang will dig in its heels, huffing and puffing about the uncheageable nature of American imperialism, and so as proof to Herr Bush's logic, it will again take on an seemingly intransigeant tack towards the US. And so the vicious cycle will continue and Herr Bush can talk to his gods about the righteousness of his; in truth, he's is pig headed, vain, and suffers from the faults of weak men.

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