Taking Preemptive Action Against North Korea
In light of North Korea's nuclear test, the United States and South Korea have agreed to develop a new contingency plan to take military action against North Korea in scenarios short of North Korea attack or in response to a catastrophic "collapse" in the North.
The new revised plan - CONPLAN 5029 -focuses on preemptive action to thwart North Korean moves involving potential export of weapons of mass destruction.
Pentagon sources confirm that the new plan will be the first joint U.S.-South Korean plan to take action against North Korea even if the North does not invade or attack the South first.
The development of offensive war plans vis a vis North Korea follows two tracks under the Bush administration: The first relates to a general desire on the part of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for the military to develop more flexible and timely contingency planning to deal with a broader set of political-military challenges, challenges that go beyond only responding to military provocations by potential adversaries. The second relates specifically to weapons of mass destruction and the national U.S. policy of preemption.
In late 2003, in response to Rumsfeld's "Contingency Planning Guidance" and the Bush administration's adoption of a policy of preemption in its National Security Strategy, the Pentagon began to develop a series of war plans to thwart the development of weapons of mass destruction. The premier plan of the series, CONPLAN 8022, dubbed "Global Strike," assigned U.S. Strategic Command the responsibility for worldwide planning and coordinating both strikes and raids.
[A CONPLAN is an operations plan prepared with less detail than a standing war plan, also known as an OPLAN. The difference between the two is often specificity, but it can also be that the "lesser" CONPLAN just doesn't necessitate the kind of intricate logistical and force structure planning that goes into a full-fledged war plan.]
CONPLAN 5029 was meant to supplement OPLAN 5027, the long-standing war plan prepared by the U.S.-South Korean Combined Forces Command in case of an all-out war with the North. OPLAN 5027 is solely related to defense of the South in the event of a North Korean attack.
Short of a North Korean invasion, South Korea has a number of national contingency plans relating to North Korea's collapse. According to the Korean press, the "Chungmoo Plan" deals with a variety of emergencies in the North; Chungmoo 3300, for instance, is a contingency plan to respond to a refugee crisis and mass migration. Chungmoo 9000 is a Southern contingency plan to govern the North.
Originally, CONPLAN 5029 was meant merely to make the South's planning joint with the United States. But with the development of the U.S. strategy of preemption, and with the development of the CONPLAN 8022 "Global Strike" effort, U.S. planners saw contingencies that might necessitate U.S. and South Korean military action as including new focus on Peninsula-specific WMD scenarios and other possibilities involving joint military action.
Thus American planners saw CONPLAN 5029 as including military actions even if there was no direct North Korean attack or provocation, even if there was no internal crisis or emergency justifying external intervention. What is more, the CONPLAN, once turned into a war plan anticipated U.S. "operational control" of joint forces.
When the draft CONPAN 5029 was produced in 2003, South Korea expressed concerns that preemptive military action in response to non-attack scenarios would be violation of sovereignty, particularly if the U.S. anticipated unilateral action. [The Constitution of the Republic of Korea stipulates that its territory covers the entire Korean Peninsula. In the event of North Korean collapse, the area reverts automatically to South Korean government control, hence the impossibility of unilateral U.S. action.]
The U.S. and South Korea agreed in mid-2005 to limit the focus of CONPLAN 5029 to necessary joint U.S.-South Korean moves should there be one of five catastrophic collapses in Pyongyang, either as a result of the death of Kim Jong Il, an internal coup or revolt against the communist regime, or some other government crisis with external reverberations.
In April 2005, South Korea further rejected development of CONPLAN 5029 into a full-fledged "war plan" -- an OPLAN -- until the issue of unilateral U.S. action and command relationships in the event of "collapse" were worked out. The South Korea press interpreted this statement to mean that CONPLAN 5029 was dead, but Pentagon sources say it merely meant that the South had expressed its political concerns about U.S. unilateral action while also limiting the potential scenarios that might precipitate joint U.S.-South Korean action.
On October 10, U.S. and South Korean planners agreed to review CONPLAN 5029 and expand the list of potential North Korean WMD scenarios that might necessitate military action. The U.S. and South Korea are discussing command relationships, rules of engagement, and military actions that might be necessitated in response to ambiguous events that might not fall under the original CONPLAN 5029 "collapse" scenarios.
By William M. Arkin |
October 27, 2006; 1:20 PM ET
Korean Peninsula
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Albert
Toronto....why does the U.S.A. get a bye, are you aware of the killer nuclear tonage that we possess in the U.S.A.? Are you aware that we have used 'the bomb'? Are you aware of what is going on in the world right now?
I am far more concerned about what is taking place right now in Iraq and Afghanistan, than in speculating over the DPRKs nuclear ambitions.
It is sad that the America and the ROW is not talking about a rogue nation that has invaded two other sovereign nations, and is wreaking havoc on the lives of a lot of innocent people.
Peeople are dying now in both nations, and the world with the encouragement of the United States goverment(deflection). Our government has the world more focused on the DPRK, while the world ignores the fact that the U.S.A. a real aggressor nation has taken over two countries and turned them into porxy battlefields. Where is the ourtage?
Let's all get exercised about what is going on right now and stop the genocide in both of the aforementioned nations that the United States is causing!
Posted by: The Rev | October 31, 2006 2:11 PM
I have concerns about the North Korea's missile and nuclear crisis which is developing.
Is it possible by near future that North Korea's and Iran's missiles are capable of reaching our shores? Can our missile defense systems really work against a intercontinental nuclear missile heading towards our population centers?
Over the last decade, North Korea has developed and acquired mid range missile and nuclear capabilities. Presently North Korea has no long range delivery missile system to reach North America but how long will it take them to develop and acquire intercontinental nuclear missile capabilities? Since North Korea has exploded a low yield nuclear in the kilotons(possibly due to low seismic readings) and how long will it take to have the dangerous higher yield 1 megaton weapon that the Western allies have? In 1998 North Korea sent a missile over Japan, upsetting everyone and receiving world condemnation and if that is not reckless what is? North Korea's missile over Japan could have started "a war", but thank fully Japan did not retaliated but is developing its own self missile defense systems. What about North Korea's recent missile testing in July 2006; the long missile test failed but when will it restart again? Will North Korea be a seller to terrorist groups of nuclear weapons? North Korea which is a Stalin dictatorship and is accountable to no one, so now we have to deal with the unstable Kim Jong-il's regime that can endanger its neighbors and eventually North America.
When negotiating with North Korea keep in mind the description the U.S. National Terror Alert Response Center uses (http://www.nationalterroralert.com/nuclear see fact sheet explosive devices and weapons> see nuclear devices>see 1 megaton>see radius blast 4.7miles), new generation of Nuclear weapons such as 1 megaton bomb is 80 times more destructive powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945's killing more than 140,000 people and radioactive illness tens of thousands more. The U.S. National Terror Alert Response Center for a 1 megaton bomb of 4.7 mile blast radius detonated over downtown "any major city"- God forbid, would flatten and kill millions to the perimeter, and to the outer greater area, further millions would have radiations burns and illness a very tragic catastrophe, basically all living kind would end the same way as the dinosaurs.
I believe patience and diplomacy is the better way, not military force but political force in the 6 country talks because what choices do you have for now?
Albert
Toronto
Posted by: Albert | October 31, 2006 11:05 AM
Well, dear Islamo Fat Cyst Muhammad Azeem Akhter, you should be permanently banned from posting here and blacklisted from the Internet for your physical threat to Muhammad Azeem Akhter. That is...unless you want to make and act on the same threat to me, in which case the problem of your posting here will disappear.
I'm non-violent, but can and will defend myself. I simply find you to be repugnant.
maddog55
watch your mouth,
when you say, "Americans did this to China," or some other garbage........
you're not winning any friends.
The CURRENT CORRUPT EXECUTIVE BRANCH does not represent AMERICA.........and your Arabic buddies have _just_ as much to do with trying to
corral OIL INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST as the current CORRUPT EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.......
PULL YOUR TURBAN OUT OF YOUR REAR END AND LOOK AT THE TRUTH..........your knee jerk rantings about what "America," did are just as stupid as the current corrupt executive branch trying to lump all muslim, arabic, persian peoples in to one "Islamo fascist nation........
don't talk garbage unless you want to be bagged dip sh**.
I'm more than willing to kick your a** around the block and make you eat pork.
Posted by: dear Islamo Fat Cyst Muhammad Azeem Akhter | October 29, 2006 02:19 PM"
Posted by: maddog55 | October 30, 2006 8:36 PM
The so-called uncivilized (Iraqi's) of the world are asking God to defend them from the so-called civilized Americans...
...........the religious Americans are using bombs to defend themselves from the religious Iraqis who haven't done anything to the so-called civilized and religious Americans!
It seems to me, that with respect to America's current divide over how this country should be defended; there are at least two broad categories of Americans. There are those Americans who say that in order for America to be properly defended; all Americans must realize that the world is not a very nice place. And, in order to survive in a world with other armed enemy nations and terrorists, their naive American brothers and sisters must realize that America must act-in-kind and be sufficiently armed in order to overcome force with excessive and preemptive force.
The current Administration and many Americans in this broad category have taken the defense of America a step further, borrowing from that old adage that 'an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure'. They believe that pre-emption is a concomitant of American defense, the same that will enable America to defend itself better against attacks by America's enemies? By beating the opposition to the punch and by keeping America's enemies disarmed or sufficiently degraded, America's enemies will be unable to muster an attack against America. Americans in this category, see no problem with striking DPRK or any other nation, just as they did to Iraq first, even though neither nation engaged in a single act of aggression towards the U.S.A, nor does either nation possess a fraction of the killing power that the U.S.A. possesses!
Sadly, this mostly well-intentioned group has zero interest in utilizing problem-solving techniques in order to resolve problems without reverting to violence, and to save lives wherever possible. And ironically, this broad grouping of Americans includes religious people who have either abandoned, or, altered the principles of their faiths altogether. Instead they have bought into secular political escapism in order to resolve their differences with their fellow human beings, having apparently become frustrated with their God's ability to bring about a peaceful resolution of their problems with their enemies!
The other broad category of Americans on the other hand, the cognitive group I will call them, to the dismay of the other group believes more in the defense of the nation than the former group; in fact this group's sole motivation is the defense of the nation and to avoid the misuse of America's power against other nations. This group believes that after every other measured and peaceful solution has been considered or exhausted, then and only then is it right to utilize force. This group also believes that responding to violence with violence only increases and escalates violence, and that the pre-emptive use of violence, and creating and stockpiling weapons only encourages other nations to do the same and is warmongering!
The President insists that by invading a once sovereign nation like Iraq and by taking down its President and its government, followed by the destruction of much of its infrastructure represents the civilized world's efforts against the uncivilized world as he put it, in order preserve civilization. However, in listening to the testimonies and comments of several Iraqi's over the past weekend, it saddened me to hear the so-called uncivilized of the world, as the President put it, say one after the other that they are seeking God, their only resource to help them. Why? In order to stop the destruction of their land and their homes which in the final analysis was instigated, and is being promulgated by the mostly Christian and so-called civilized nation that looks down upon the people in their nation and devalues their way of living, the United States of America. ..
Isn't it ironic that these people have to seek God to help them, a nation that has been invaded and torn apart by America (a country that is being supported in a preemptive war and occupation by its major religious community, the Christian church), the same nation that also wants to do the same with the DPRK and Iran?
Isn't it sad when people have to pray to God (and most Americans say that they believe in God), and ask God to get America to stop the violence and carnage in their country, that America alone is responsible for and could stop at any time?
Posted by: The Rev | October 30, 2006 10:33 AM
The so-called uncivilized (Iraqi's) of the world are asking God to defebd them from the so-called civilized Americans...
...........the religous Americans are using bombs to defend themselves from the religous Americans.
It seems to me that with respect to America's current divide over how this country should be defended; there are at least two broad categories of Americans. There are those Americans who say that in order for America to be properly defended; all Americans must realize that the world is not a very nice place. And, in order to survive in a world with other armed enemy nations and terrorists, their naive American brothers and sisters must realize that America must act-in-kind and be sufficiently armed in order to overcome force with excessive and preemptive force.
The current Administration and many Americans in this broad category have taken the defense of America a step further, borrowing from that old adage that 'an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure'. They believe that pre-emption is a concomitant of American defense, the same that will enable America to defend itself better against attacks by America's enemies? By beating the opposition to the punch and by keeping America's enemies disarmed or sufficiently degraded, America's enemies will be unable to muster an attack against America. Americans in this category, see no problem with striking DPRK or any other nation, just as they did to Iraq first, even though neither nation engaged in a single act of aggression towards the U.S.A, nor does either nation possess a fraction of the killing power that the U.S.A. possesses!
Sadly, this mostly well-intentioned group has zero interest in utilizing problem-solving techniques in order to resolve problems without reverting to violence, and to save lives wherever possible. And ironically, this broad grouping of Americans includes religious people who have either abandoned, or, altered the principles of their faiths altogether. Instead they have bought into secular political escapism in order to resolve their differences with their fellow human beings, having apparently become frustrated with their God's ability to bring about a peaceful resolution of their problems with their enemies!
The other broad category of Americans on the other hand, the cognitive group I will call them, to the dismay of the other group believes more in the defense of the nation than the former group; in fact this group's sole motivation is the defense of the nation and to avoid the misuse of America's power against other nations. This group believes that after every other measured and peaceful solution has been considered or exhausted, then and only then is it right to utilize force. This group also believes that responding to violence with violence only increases and escalates violence, and that the pre-emptive use of violence, and creating and stockpiling weapons only encourages other nations to do the same and is warmongering!
The President insists that by invading a once sovereign nation like Iraq and by taking down its President and its government, followed by the destruction of much of its infrastructure represents the civilized world's efforts against the uncivilized world as he put it, in order preserve civilization. However, in listening to the testimonies and comments of several Iraqi's over the past weekend, it saddened me to hear the so-called uncivilized of the world, as the President put it, say one after the other that they are seeking God, their only resource to help them. Why? In order to stop the destruction of their land and their homes which in the final analysis was instigated, and is being promulgated by the mostly Christian and so-called civilized nation that looks down upon the people in their nation and devalues their way of living, the United States of America. ..
Isn't it ironic that these people have to seek God to help them, a nation that has been invaded and torn apart by America (a country that is being supported in a preemptive war and occupation by its major religious community, the Christian church), the same nation that also wants to do the same with the DPRK and Iran?
Isn't it sad when people have to pray to God (and most Americans say that they believe in God), and ask God to get America to stop the violence and carnage in their country, that America alone is responsible for and could stop at any time?
Posted by: The Rev | October 30, 2006 10:26 AM
Von Goodman,
Shame on you, the North Koreans are people. Why do you support murder?
Change your name to Von Badman!
Posted by: The Rev | October 30, 2006 10:23 AM
Good thing you are not president then. The only concrete suggestion is the telecommuting suggestion, but making it mandatory, cmon.
The free market will solve the energy problem when demand from the people for alternative energy increases, so keep pushing the benefits of these energies and have the population demand them (not merely the president), also some incentives to use alternative energies from the government might help speed that process up.
As for your idea to "unmarginalize our marginalized populations to have them contribute to society, by fixing the brokeness of their lives" unfortunatley, while this is a noble idea fail to lay out a plan. The only hope for people to become "unmarginalized" is for strong family units to teach pride and hard work and importance of education.
My family is all imigrants who spoke broken English, but all worked hard to "provide a better life for their children" and they have succeeded. It took a few generations, but during that time our family never blamed anyone for our misfortunes (although finding a "Ascapegoat is much easier than hard work and self preserverence)
The problem is, is that is has become taboo to suggest hard work ang family
Posted by: TO hiya | October 30, 2006 7:48 AM
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Glitches cited in early voting
Early voters are urged to cast their ballots with care following scattered reports of problems with heavily used machines.
BY CHARLES RABIN AND DARRAN SIMON
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After a week of early voting, a handful of glitches with electronic voting machines have drawn the ire of voters, reassurances from elections supervisors -- and a caution against the careless casting of ballots.
Several South Florida voters say the choices they touched on the electronic screens were not the ones that appeared on the review screen -- the final voting step.
Election officials say they aren't aware of any serious voting issues. But in Broward County, for example, they don't know how widespread the machine problems are because there's no process for poll workers to quickly report minor issues and no central database of machine problems.
In Miami-Dade, incidents are logged and reported daily and recorded in a central database. Problem machines are shut down.
''In the past, Miami-Dade County would send someone to correct the machine on site,'' said Lester Sola, county supervisor of elections. Now, he said, ``We close the machine down and put a seal on it.''
Debra A. Reed voted with her boss on Wednesday at African-American Research Library and Cultural Center near Fort Lauderdale. Her vote went smoothly, but boss Gary Rudolf called her over to look at what was happening on his machine. He touched the screen for gubernatorial candidate Jim Davis, a Democrat, but the review screen repeatedly registered the Republican, Charlie Crist.
That's exactly the kind of problem that sends conspiracy theorists into high gear -- especially in South Florida, where a history of problems at the polls have made voters particularly skittish.
A poll worker then helped Rudolf, but it took three tries to get it right, Reed said.
''I'm shocked because I really want . . . to trust that the issues with irregularities with voting machines have been resolved,'' said Reed, a paralegal. ``It worries me because the races are so close.''
Broward Supervisor of Elections spokeswoman Mary Cooney said it's not uncommon for screens on heavily used machines to slip out of sync, making votes register incorrectly. Poll workers are trained to recalibrate them on the spot -- essentially, to realign the video screen with the electronics inside. The 15-step process is outlined in the poll-workers manual.
''It is resolved right there at the early-voting site,'' Cooney said.
Broward poll workers keep a log of all maintenance done on machines at each site. But the Supervisor of Elections office doesn't see that log until the early voting period ends. And a machine isn't taken out of service unless the poll clerk decides it's a chronic poor performer that can't be fixed.
Cooney said no machines have been removed during early voting, and she is not aware of any serious problems.
In Miami-Dade, two machines have been taken out of service during early voting. No votes were lost, Sola said.
Joan Marek, 60, a Democrat from Hollywood, was also stunned to see Charlie Crist on her ballot review page after voting on Thursday. ''Am I on the voting screen again?'' she wondered. ``Well, this is too weird.''
Marek corrected her ballot and alerted poll workers at the Hollywood satellite courthouse, who she said told her they'd had previous problems with the same machine.
Poll workers did some work on her machine when she finished voting, Marek said. But no report was made to the Supervisor of Elections office and the machine was not removed, Cooney said.
Workers at the Hollywood poll said there had been no voting problems on Friday.
Mauricio Raponi wanted to vote for Democrats across the board at the Lemon City Library in Miami on Thursday. But each time he hit the button next to the candidate, the Republican choice showed up. Raponi, 53, persevered until the machine worked. Then he alerted a poll worker.
Miami Herald staff writer Linda Topping Streitfeld contributed to this report.
Posted by: CHE | October 30, 2006 5:22 AM
the US shoudnt do anything in NK, if anyone wants to,it s/b someone in the nieghborhood i.e China ,SK. If NK threatens the US directly and they demonstrate they can reach us with a nuke, then we should make it clear to the "nieghbors" of NK that if they dont calm there friend, we will take them out.
Posted by: alex | October 29, 2006 10:43 PM
The U.S.A.....and its double-standards!
Isn't it amazing that a country that
has nuclear weapons;
has used nuclear weapons;
is investing in new nuclear technologies;
has recently invaded and occupied two sovereign nations; has given other countries (like Israel) nucearl weapons is even considering how to go about attacking attack a sovereign nation that hasn't done anything wrong?
And what is more important is that too many Americans and the ROW would stand by and allow the U.S.A. to invade or attack yet another sovereign nation.
IT IS TRULY AMAZING!
Posted by: The Rev | October 29, 2006 7:24 PM
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Depleted Uranium Death Toll among US War Veterans Tops 11,000
Nationwide Media Blackout Keeps U.S. Public Ignorant About This Important Story
by James P. Tucker Jr.
October 29, 2006
The death toll from the highly toxic weapons component known as depleted uranium (DU) has reached 11,000 soldiers and the growing scandal may be the reason behind Anthony Principi's departure as secretary of the Veterans Affairs Department.
This view was expressed by Arthur Bernklau, executive director of Veterans for Constitutional Law in New York, writing in Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter.
"The real reason for Mr. Principi's departure was really never given," Bernklau said. "However, a special report published by eminent scientist Leuren Moret naming depleted uranium as the definitive cause of 'Gulf War Syndrome' has fed a growing scandal about the continued use of uranium munitions by the U.S. military."
The "malady [from DU] that thousands of our military have suffered and died from has finally been identified as the cause of this sickness, eliminating the guessing. . . . The terrible truth is now being revealed," Bernklau said.
Of the 580,400 soldiers who served in Gulf War I, 11,000 are now dead, he said. By the year 2000, there were 325,000 on permanent medical disability. More than a decade later, more than half (56 percent) who served in Gulf War I have permanent medical problems. The disability rate for veterans of the world wars of the last century was 5 percent, rising to 10 percent in Vietnam.
"The VA secretary was aware of this fact as far back as 2000," Bernklau said. "He and the Bush administration have been hiding these facts, but now, thanks to Moret's report, it is far too big to hide or to cover up."
Terry Johnson, public affairs specialist at the VA, recently reported that veterans of both Persian Gulf wars now on disability total 518,739, Bernklau said.
"The long-term effect of DU is a virtual death sentence," Bernklau said. "Marion Fulk, a nuclear chemist, who retired from the Lawrence Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab, and was also involved in the Manhattan Project, interprets the new and rapid malignancies in the soldiers [from the second war] as 'spectacular'--and a matter of concern.' "
While this important story appeared in a Washington newspaper and the wire services, it did not receive national exposure--a compelling sign that the American public is being kept in the dark about the terrible effects of this toxic weapon. (Veterans for Constitutional Law can be reached at (516) 474-4261.)
Posted by: che | October 29, 2006 5:15 PM
people
Muhammad Azeem Akhter
and you're one of them. Let's talk about the conspiracy of the oil led monarchies trying to pull the strings of power to take advantage of the situation.......
That would include Iran, China, Pakistan, India, UAE, Saudi, Kuwiat, Afghanistan, etc.
you're either incredibly stupid or just naive, or crooked.
...which is it Islamo fascist?
.
Posted by: I hate stupid | October 29, 2006 2:22 PM
watch your mouth,
when you say, "Americans did this to China," or some other garbage........
you're not winning any friends.
The CURRENT CORRUPT EXECUTIVE BRANCH does not represent AMERICA.........and your Arabic buddies have _just_ as much to do with trying to
corral OIL INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST as the current CORRUPT EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.......
PULL YOUR TURBAN OUT OF YOUR REAR END AND LOOK AT THE TRUTH..........your knee jerk rantings about what "America," did are just as stupid as the current corrupt executive branch trying to lump all muslim, arabic, persian peoples in to one Islamo fascist nation........
don't talk garbage unless you want to be bagged dip sh**.
I'm more than willing to kick your a** around the block and make you eat pork.
Posted by: dear Islamo Fat Cyst Muhammad Azeem Akhter | October 29, 2006 2:19 PM
Aren't these kinds of military plans normally secret? The leak to the Post at this moment is part of an escalation of threats by the US.
I think it's more likely that NK would attack the US than the US would attack NK. So they are not really threats, but steps to war. I am expecting it to start when the US tries to board and inspect an NK ship on the high seas.
Posted by: Paul Wolf | October 29, 2006 11:03 AM
Americans took advantage of the September 11 and surrounded China by invading Afghanistan. They also established bases in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.
Americans are trying to build an alliance against China in Asia with the help of Japan, Australia, and India.
Chinese reacted to this alarming situation and signed various treaties with neighbouring countries such as Pakistan. China also accelerated the development of Gawadar port with the help of Pakistan as a wider strategy to counter the American influence in the region.
China is also trying to counter the American influence in Asia by building new alliances such as Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). It consists of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, while Iran, Mongolia, India, and Pakistan have an observer status. SCO asked the USA to set a timeline to withdraw its military from the region in 2005.
Read More ...
http://pakistan1947.blogspot.com/2006/08/shadows-of-great-game.html
Posted by: Muhammad Azeem Akhter | October 28, 2006 4:24 PM
as with any communist, the only thing they respect is a loaded gun pointed at them, lets try this first and see where kim jong il wants to go with it.
von goodman
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Will Ken Blackwell find the ways to steal Ohio 2006 as he did in 2004?
By Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman
Online Journal Guest Writers
The man who stole Ohio for George W. Bush in 2004 is now trying to steal it for himself in 2006. The question is: who will stop him, and will he also affect the balance of power in the U.S. Congress?
As election day approaches, Blackwell's dirty tricks sink ever deeper.
Blackwell is now using "push polls" made infamous by Karl Rove. True to form, child molestation charges are front and center. He has also escalated the mass disenfranchisement of Ohio voters, trashing the ballots of some 10 percent of absentee voters. He has eliminated the statewide ballot initiative meant to save workers rights and wages. He's even tried to strike the Democratic gubernatorial nominee from the ballot altogether. All of which could affect not only his race for governor, but key U.S. Senate and House races as well.
Blackwell is using Rove's notoriously deceptive push poll device to spread an unsubstantiated smear against his Democratic gubernatorial opponent, Ted Strickland. Push polls were rendered infamous when Rove used them in South Carolina to falsely suggest that Senator John McCain had fathered a mixed-race child. Often the impact of push polls is magnified by callers to talk shows that spread additional street rumors, as in the lie that McCain impregnated a black hooker. The reality in McCain's case: he had adopted a child from one of Mother Teresa's orphanages and prominently displayed her in his campaign literature.
In Strickland's case, the Free Press has obtained a statement from Barbara Mooney of Fremont, Ohio, describing in detail the phone call she received from the Blackwell for Governor campaign. On October 23, Mooney picked up the phone and heard: "This is a 45-second survey. Please answer yes or no."
Then came: "If you knew Ted Strickland had hired a child molester would you still vote for him?"
The electronic voice continued: "Are you going to vote for Ted Strickland?" and "Are you going to vote for Ken Blackwell?"
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Posted by: che | October 28, 2006 6:37 AM
The US is already is in doldrums and searching for ways to extricate itself from Iraq. Of course President Bush is right when he said that the Americans will not leave Iraq until peace is restored and a democratic government is formed. But what is the time-frame? . And where is the guarantee that the ethnic fight will come to an end in the near future? In fact they did not find any WMD or biological weapons yet they entered into Iraq. Albeit they have removed Saddam , who caused death and misery in Iraq, for which the world heaved a sigh of relief and appreciated the Americans but the killings of innocent Iraqis who were caught in the cross-fire angers the world community like that of Americans who bemoan over their Army men deaths. With domestic opinion raising against the continuity of war in Iraq and demanding that the US army should return, ,how could they contemplate such "pre-emptive strike" against N.Korea?. Such belligerent attitude may further damage the American interests and the committee of nations may oppose such military action against N.Korea provoked or unprovoked . The South Korean knee-jerk reaction after its communist neighbor tested its nuclear weapon is understandable but that does not mean it should settle the issues resorting to war. The US , a great vibrant democracy which is out to establish "democracies " in the countries ruled by despots or communists, should veer round China and Russia to dissuade N.Korea from its nuclear ambitions. After all the West namely US fought against communism for six decades, even at the height of cold-war, without firing a single missile and won where the communism lost its sheen and the mighty former USSR fell like a pack of cards. It had achieved this through consistent propaganda spending billions of dollars. When they could unite the East and West Germany , they could do it the same in the case of both Koreas. Now repeat the same and dump dollars in N.Korea where its population is suffering from want, misery, unemployment, lack of medi-care etc. due to the communist regime's ruthless rule. And explore all options and diplomacy too should be given a chance. And the US domestic compulsions , the coming Nov. elections and the falling approval ratings of the Mr.Bush should not reflect on other countries. The Pentagon should learn to think in terms of peace and not war. Use carrots and not stick.
Posted by: asrao | October 28, 2006 1:44 AM
now that's an interesting item....
checking my spanner for ticks, I found the following...
or mor e simply
the question is how to step out of the
existing paradigm so strongly that the world follows suit...
presence of destruction, encircling annoyances....crushing shallow waves.
multiple levels of interpretation destroying paradigms of acceptance....
predictable behaviours entrapped in the fields of perception....
let me feast upon your stupidity and render you fit for judgement.
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Posted by: a true tool, | October 28, 2006 12:04 AM
for instance, take the much ballyhooed number of dead in Iraq.........
the only reason to discredit the study on the number of deaths is to negate, not ameliorate or correct.
the obfuscative powers that be, Complicit Congress, Corrupt Executive Branch and dirty_handed Military Industrial Complex and related Lobbyists....
want what they want, to get paid and control.
THAT has nothing to do with how many people died.
If one person died and the only reason that we're over there is to control a scarce resource, Texas Tea, Black Gold, bubblin crude.........which the walking piece of human excrement George W. Bush said, I believe it was yesterday....ifa wea walka waya from Iraqa thena the moneya coulda goa to the peoplea that wea pissed off.........
boy he's abright one isn't he? what a little preemptive strike in the way of a condom woulda saved the world neh?!
If one person died and the only reason that we're over there is to control a scarce resource
then that death is murder, if there's an alternative to business being handled that way.
IF I WERE PRESIDENT, things would be different.
I would issue some National Security based mandates.
1. telecommuting would become mandatory where practicable.
2. programs for using transportation more efficiently would be recommended and where feasible enacted.
3. I would put in place to unmarginalize our marginalized populations to have them contribute to society, by fixing the brokeness of their lives.
4. I would require classes of response to the problem of having a non_renewable base of fuel as a significant segment of our energy/transportation system....to fricking day....
and so on.
_This_ is _THE_ National FRICKING Security not some wish list.
The only people that think that it is a wish list are the same people that tried to sell you homophobia as a _family_value_
and those people should be destroyed, and their pets nuetered.
thanks so much.
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Posted by: hiya | October 27, 2006 11:58 PM
look,
all you need to understand is that there's an obvious pattern......
that if you're not developmentally impaired, and unable to willingly examine the data, it will lead you to the glaringly obvious conclusion that the whole
"war on terrorism," is purest bull s***
foisted on the citizenry in lieu of actually having an effective government,
in order to keep selling you what you don't need.
them in charge.
smoke 'em if you got them, and then step on them.
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call it political forensics, tracking the wild bser....what have you, pay attention.
Posted by: conplan, congame? who cares.... | October 27, 2006 11:53 PM
Mr. Arkin,
You fail to assess the role of China in a preemptive strike scenario on DPRK or that will be our role in this debate? I truly doubt the US will do any preemptive strike on DPRK without first consulting our new banker China. Who knows Bush might have to borrow the money from China to perform a preemptive strike on DPRK.
The release of the CONPLANs and OPLANs is timed for the midterm elections to once again propagate fear and demonstrate that only GWB can stop the "axis of evil". In reality what he has done is threaten DPRK again with his "red neck " rhetoric intended to mobilize his base and this threat will compel DPRK to demonstrate there military prowess. It almost seems like GWB wants to make the world less stable or he's just a power hungry idiot (your not alone Rev.) that wants to keep his rubber stamp congress at the expense of American lives.
In the event I am in error to this point in my comment and preemptive strike does take place and thus results in war, GWB will need a force of 250,000 to 500,000 additional troops. These additional troop requirements will necessitate a draft. Mr. Arkin will these plans require a military draft?
Posted by: DC | October 27, 2006 9:20 PM
Mr. Arkin,
You fail to assess the role of China in a preemptive strike scenario on DPRK or that will be our role in this debate? I truly doubt the US will do any preemptive strike on DPRK without first consulting our new banker China. Who knows Bush might have to borrow the money from China to perform a preemptive strike on DPRK.
The release of the CONPLANs and OPLANs is timed for the midterm elections to once again propagate fear and demonstrate that only GWB can stop the "axis of evil". In reality what he has done is threaten DPRK again with his "red neck " rhetoric intended to mobilize his base and this threat will compel DPRK to demonstrate there military prowess. It almost seems like GWB wants to make the world less stable or he's just a power hungry idiot (your not alone Rev.) that wants to keep his rubber stamp congress at the expense of American lives.
In the event I am in error to this point in my comment and preemptive strike does take place and thus results in war, GWB will need a force of 250,000 to 500,000 additional troops. These additional troop requirements will necessitate a draft. Mr. Arkin will these plans require a military draft?
Posted by: DC | October 27, 2006 9:19 PM
Posted by Rev.,
"nothing has been the same since! We are currently bogged down in two separate wars, not two fronts in the battle against terrorism (as Jorge Bushe has indicated on more than one occasion)."
You could easily say three wars: Terrorism, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
Posted by: DC | October 27, 2006 8:37 PM
The new 'CONPLAN' should include provisions to address the failing and broken economy that will burden the shoulders of generations to come. After all, the real threat is from within.
With all of the false and fake numbers being reported it is easy to realize that the public as a majority is vastly misled.
It is quite simple; The dollar is seriously devalued, foreign interests are buying US real estate at the highest rates ever recorded and the US public at large is unfortunately misinformed.
Why not address the real threat Arkin? Is that you have no backbone? Or is it simply that you are a true tool?
I would have to speculate that the reporting you are engaging in is nothing more than a diversion to accompany the falling.
It is time to address the 'real' issues of today....... Or get off the line......
Posted by: Mike T. | October 27, 2006 7:59 PM
When the Warhawks got back into power...
...nothing has been the same since! We are currently bogged down in two separate wars, not two fronts in the battle against terrorism (as Jorge Bushe has indicated on more than one occasion).
In addition to the two current wars, this blood-thirsty guy has threatened Iran and the DPRK. He has alienated our allies. He is seeking to militarize space. He won't sign and stick with NPT treaties. He won't sign the non-proliferation of Space Agreement. And how long has he been in office, not quite 6-years?
Has anyone asked themselves, exactly what is this joker up to, and exactly what is this idiot, planning to do over the next two years? He will tell you that he is making America more secure, but most thinking people would agree that the country has never been less secure. And yes, the country has been fighting, in a country that it turned into an American battlefield, almost since 911. This man has not resolved anything, he has not made America safer; he simply moved the battle offshore which suits some Americans I am sure; never mind the innocent people in Iraq who are dying!
Let's not forget that for all of his talking and rationalizing that the country was attacked on his inept and defenseless watch. Let's not forget that 2700 Americans were initially killed on his watch and since then another 2700 or so, have been killed. And let's not forget that these bozos could not defend their own country, the nation's capitol or the pentagon against 19 men. Surely, the current Administration is more adept at taking over other countries.
It amazes me that the people of the world and the United States are allowing George Bush to get away with this. This man should be sharing a jail cell with Saddam Hussein and Saddam should get the shorter sentence!
I suspect that the people of the DPRK, Japan and South Korea would have got together long ago and resolved their differences, just as the Sunni's and Shiites could do in Iraq, and perhaps they will when they get rid of their current dictator, Jorge Bushe!
P.S. If you are offended by me referring to the President as an idiot, I felt that idiot sounded a bit better than murderer, even though he is that too!
Posted by: The Rev | October 27, 2006 6:25 PM
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