Should Clinton take full blame for the issue now with North Korea?

Question

(Make sure to read the links at the bottom after my introduction to the topic)

People gossip all the time about how Clinton authorized $55 million in aid to North Korea in October of 1994, in order to establish an agreement (“Agreed Framework”) in which North Korea would shut down suspicious areas of nuclear waste sites.
Clinton’s aim was to construct clean-running nuclear power plants for North Korea as long as they agree to give up pursuit of nuclear arms.
We know today that this ultimately failed. But the deal remained intact until Bush became president.

Now, here’s something you might not know.
The agreed framework would have allowed the Bush administration to send North Korea a financial reward, so long as they had withheld their part of the deal to halt their attempts at harnessing nuclear weapons.
BUT the Bush administration waived the required nuclear inspections that were repeatedly stressed in the Agreed Framework, signed by Clinton.
Perhaps the Bush Administration should not have done the same as Clinton and been too quick to trust Kim Jong-il?
In April of 2002, funds of $95 million were approved and sent as further aid to North Korea.

Believe me or not; the proof is abundant to the researchers.

http://canberra.usembassy.gov/hyper/2002/0403/epf308.htm

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/04/20020402-13.html

Answer 1

Yes and we should blame him for the stock market crash of 1929, the second world war, oh hell the first world war, the sinking of the titanic, the San Franciscan earth quake, the Chicago fire and the St. Valentine day massacre. The bombing of Japan, and anything in the future that the repuglicans mess up. He should get the blame for everything from the last 100 years to the present, and from now on forever.

Answer 2

If we go back far enough we can probably place some of the blame on old George. Not Bush, I meant Washington.

A manager is hired into a company. Everything that goes wrong for the next year is blamed on the previous manager.

If everything came out that has been done by the people that run our government you would have a heart attack. All the crap, lies, sneaking around and utter terrible things that people do is a sin. But they all do it.
If you think any different, you are a fool. If they told the truth no one would vote for them!!!!!

Answer 3

The Clinton administration, with famed peacekeepers Madeline Albright and Jimmy Carter, negotiated an historic deal with Kim Jong II and North Korea back in 1994. Under the terms of the "agreed framework," we gave North Korea all sorts of rewards for their "promise" to be nice -- more than $5 billion worth of oil, two nuclear reactors and lots of high technology, plus an immediate hault on weapons inspections to last for five years. In return, they took the bribes and kept building nukes. Yes, you read that right: North Korea promised not to develop nukes, and we showed how much we trusted them by agreeing to no weapons inspections for five years. The famed "allies," whom liberals claim they are so interested in pleasing, went ballistic at this cave-in to North Korea. Japan and South Korea -- actual allies, unlike France and Germany -- were furious. Even Hans Blix thought we were being pansies. You can read all about it - amazingly enough we did have newspaper coverage of the events in 1994.

Answer 4

It would have been better to execute the Agreed Framework - to buy NK's nuclear technology, and have them shut down their own weapons program, and sell them oil and permit the construction of light water power reactors -- than to let them develop and sell warheads to the highest bidders.

The problem is that Kim Jong Il is kept in power by his military and elites. As long as they are happy, he remains in power. He does not have the charisma of his father, so his power is somewhat tenable. If the UN wants to remove NK's nuclear program, it has to deal with the power behind the throne.

Ask yourself this question. Why would the NK military want to give up its own nascent nuclear capability? That is the crux of the problem.

Interesting factoid: Donald Rumsfeld was a member of the board of directors of ABB, which was awarded the LW reactor contract with NK. See link below.

Answer 5

Why not! President Clinton has had to shoulder the burden for all the other errors and falsehoods of the Bush regime. Everytime Bush drops the ball, he simply blames someone else.

This is the least responsible administration we've had since Reagan. (The were buck passers too.)

Answer 6

If Monika Lewensky had kept her mouth shut we'd still have Clinton as president. He was a much more worthy president even though he had his sexual hang-up. The N.Korea thing would disappear if he were still in the White House. Clinton did not have a father who ran the CIA who are to blame for a lot of the problems out east.

Answer 7

Funny how anytime something happens in the bush administration, they are somehow able to find something in the Clinton administration to blame. Again, it's a party that refuses to accept responsibility for their actions, and the following of blind and uninformed sheep on the people who believe it. Hey, how about we blame the administration who left the Korean Conflict back in the '50's? After all, if this didn't happen, Kim Jong-Il wouldn't be in charge now...

It's sad people don't think...

Answer 8

absolutley not. Bush had all kinds of time and opportunities to hold talks with Kim but elected not to. if Kim ran a desert nation with no means to fight back , Bush might have invaded it as in Iraq. But Kim can fight back and Bush has no answers.

Answer 9

Yeah, and Clinton should also be blamed for global warming. Were you aware that Rumsfeld served on the board of directors of the company that sold nuke reactors to North Korea?

Answer 10

yes ms. albrite was on the news say that they were tricked by little kim,what do you think he was going to do with those reactors,why do people refuse to accept the facts,you can not make an agreement with anybody of the communist belief,they do not keep deals,and if all he wanted was peaceful electrical power for his people why are they not making electricity,have you seen satulity photos of n./s.korea,the south lit up like xmas tree,north dark as the nite.