Please read the sources listed below before you start playing the Blame Clinton game.
North Korea’s bombs are built with plutonium. They produce their plutonium in a reactor they built during the Reagan presidency, starting around 1984. They separated enough plutonium for perhaps two bombs during the first Bush presidency.
When they tried to make more plutonium under President Bill Clinton, he said he would go to war to stop them. He had plans prepared for the attack. The North Koreans backed down.
Bill Clinton froze the program in its tracks. North Korea did not separate a gram of plutonium while Bill Clinton was in office. He also stopped their missile tests.
George Bush walked away from the deal in his first months in office. In March 2001, Secretary of State Colin Powell said he wanted “to continue the process begun under Clinton.” Bush cut him down the very next day.
U.S. intelligence had detected signs near the end of the Clinton years that the North Koreans were trying to evade the freeze by beginning a uranium program. When confronted with the evidence in 2002, the North Koreans admitted it and offered to put that program on the table as part of a comprehensive deal. Bush used it as an excuse to walk away from negotiations. He thought he did not need to talk to the North Koreans. He thought he could overthrow the regime.
He failed. He issued threats and drew lines in the sand. The North Koreans walked right past them. They threw out the IAEA inspectors in December 2002, while Bush was preparing to invade Iraq. The month after the invasion, they withdrew from the Non-Proliferation Treaty. In 2005, they reprocessed plutonium from the fuel rods Clinton had made them keep in pools under IAEA inspection. They took another load of fuel out of the reactor and processed more plutonium. They reloaded the reactor to make even more plutonium. They tested missiles, they made bombs, now they have tested a bomb.
All the plutonium made for these bombs was made either during Bush's presidency or his father’s.
2006-10-11 15:25:37
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answered by spire2000 2
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George Bush is using the US military and bribes to scare the beegeesus out of the world (instead of using diplomacy).
Kim is an insecure brat. George is a bully. Eventually, Kim is going to throw girly fists at Bush except the bomb will hit US citizens instead. (Bush and pedophiles will be hiding out in the mountain fortress Cheney used on 9/11)
When confronted, bullies are really cowards and Kim must know that. Since Hilliary is a bright woman, she's figured all of this out.
2006-10-11 16:02:37
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answered by Reba K 6
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Clinton was partly to be blamed for giving the technology and Bush for not preventing the nuclear arms program of North Korea.
2006-10-11 14:51:16
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answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7
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Because George Bush shot off his mouth without thinking, as usual, and put them on high alert. They want to be prepared in case they are the next country to be invaded.
2006-10-13 05:55:17
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answered by Justice 4 All 2
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Yeah Bush is an idiot, he did not give reactors to our enemies but he is still an idiot. After all they said pretty please with sugar on top when they asked for the nuclear reactors and assorted technology. I am even sure they pinky sweared on it. After all, how could Clinton foresee that communists would lie
2006-10-11 14:48:34
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answered by Anonymous
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The Clinton's have been trying to re-right history ever sense they got into power. why would that change now. Besides if the truth gets out she will never have a chance at the oval office.
2006-10-11 14:51:28
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answered by Beast 4
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Because she is suffering from a selective memory syndrome compounded with a government sponsored mind wipe of the of events that happened prior to November of 2000.
2006-10-11 14:46:47
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answered by djnav11 2
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Spin control incase she runs for office. Don't forget that witch had a lot of power during his terms. Maybe it was Hillarys idea to give NK the nuke help.
2006-10-11 14:44:19
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answered by Have gun, will travel. 4
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Because George Bush SUCKS!!!
2006-10-11 15:44:11
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answered by ☠Naz☠ 6
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Just like how our Republican President Ronald Regan funded Saddam Hussein and Osama binLaden back in the 1980's--I guess that one bit us in the backside pretty majorly, don't you think?
2006-10-11 14:46:53
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answered by melouofs 7
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