Why did Clinton do this and liberals blame Bush?

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Clinton Deal Gave N. Korea 100 Nuke-Per-Year Capacity
NewsMax ^ | 10/19/02 | Limbacher


Posted on 10/19/2002 8:53:52 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection


Lightwater nuclear reactors provided to North Korea under a 1994 deal negotiated by the Clinton administration have the capacity to generate enough nuclear fuel to produce almost 100 nuclear bombs per year, a 1999 congressional study warned.

The study was undertaken by the House North Korea Advisory Group, chaired by Rep. Benjamin A. Gilman, R-NY. Members of the panel included Rep. Doug Bereuter, R-Neb, then Chairman of the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, Rep. Porter J. Goss, R-Fla., Chairman of Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and Christopher Cox, R-Calif., then Chairman of the Republican Policy Committee.

In its November 1999 report to the Speaker of the House, the Advisory Group sounded the alarm about North Korea's nuclear weapons program, cautioning that the "Agreed Framework" that President Clinton had promised would derail Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program had backfired.

In one of its "Key Findings" the Advisory group warned ominously:

"Through the provision of two light water reactors (LWRs) under the 1994 Agreed Framework, the United States, through KEDO, will provide North Korea with the capacity to produce annually enough fissile material for nearly 100 nuclear bombs, should the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) decide to violate the Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT)."

The report continues:

"Spent Fuel from the Two Light Water Reactors: If the 1994 Agreed Framework is implemented and two LWRs are eventually built and operated in North Korea, the reactors could produce close to 500 kilograms of plutonium in spent reactor fuel each year; enough for nearly 100 bombs annually if North Korea decides to break its obligations and reprocess the material."

Officials in Pyonyang acknowledged this week that North Korea had indeed broken its obligations under the Clinton accord and are now proceeding full speed ahead with a full-blown nuclear weapons program.

The Advisory Group further cautioned:

"Although the 1994 Agreed Framework was essentially aimed at eliminating North Korea's ability to make nuclear weapons, there is significant evidence that nuclear weapons development is continuing, including its efforts to acquire uranium enrichment technologies and its nuclear-related high explosive tests."

In one of the Advisory Group's most chilling observations, the report warned that since the implementation of the Clinton accord, North Korea had made significant progress in developing an intercontinental ballistic missile fleet capable of targeting the U.S. with weapons of mass destruction:

"In the last five years, North Korea's missile capabilities have improved dramatically. North Korea has produced, deployed and exported missiles to Iran and Pakistan, launched a three-stage missile (Taepo Dong 1), and continues to develop a larger and more powerful missile (Taepo Dong 2). Unlike five years ago, North Korea can now strike the United States with a missile that could deliver high explosive, chemical, biological, or possibly nuclear weapons. Currently, the United States is unable to defend against this threat."

The report also features a bar graph that shows a direct correlation between increases in Clinton administration aid and North Korea's enhanced ICBM capacity.

The Advisory group also contended that the "Agreed Framework" had made North Korea "the largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid in the Asia-Pacific region."

"In an astonishing reversal of nine previous U.S. administrations, the Clinton-Gore administration, in 1994, committed not only to provide foreign aid for North Korea, but to earmark that aid primarily for the construction of nuclear reactors worth up to $6 billion," the Advisory Group noted.



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Answer 1

TheRobA is the first admitted liberal I have seen who doesn't blame everything on Bush.

Answer 2

you are able to desire to know by capacity of now that the liberals will continuously circulate returned to Bush and blame him for each little thing, which incorporate what THEY do incorrect, so it is going with out asserting that, particular, each and all of the loopy, clueless libs will blame Bush from now till the tip of the international!! To the poster that pronounced there have been no longer WMD's, I hate to disappoint you, yet you're sooooo out of the information loop!! Saddam Hussein HAD WMD's while the Iraqi conflict started!! Our troops found evidence of them in Iraq, however the brainless liberal media did no longer promote it - heavens mercy, in the event that they did - that would have boosted Bush's approval rankings and can have made the liberals seem so stupid (they are besides, regardless) Saddam Hussein used WMD's against his very own people, killing hundreds upon hundreds throughout his long 30-year reign!! He replaced into an evil, murderous, cruel monster that did no longer care approximately human existence, no longer to point his very own people's lives!! Hussein knew that as quickly as our troops have been going to circulate into Iraq, he bought off his WMD's to Syria previously he have been given captured by capacity of our armed forces and allies! He KNEW he did no longer have the capacity to defeat us and our allies, so previously he have been given captured, he bought off his WMDs!! NO liberal will EVER convince me that there have been no WMD's in Iraq!! And particular, Clinton DID point out that Hussein had to be dealt with or maybe Hillary pronounced it besides! They, alongside with Kerry and Obama and different liberals/democrats voted for the conflict, so it incredibly is not any longer ALL Bush that sent our troops into Iraq all on is very own fruition!! get better cautioned, LIBS, previously you placed up solutions!! Do your homework!!!

Answer 3

I'm Liberal and I don't blame Bush. I'm of the opinion that it didn't matter who was president N.Korea would still have developed their weapons program. I don't think it is useful to point fingers, I just hope whoever is in charge deals with the reality of this situation effectively

Answer 4

Most suffer from a mental disability that causes immediate loss of memory of anything bad involved the word 'Clinton'.

Answer 5

The liberals blame Bush for rain. Nothing they try to pin on him surprises me.

Well maybe if they say that Bill raped women because Bush told him to - I'd be skeptical of that.

Answer 6

Because the Bush administration can straighten it all out, Right?

Answer 7

Well Clinton found people in the White House that sucked befor, if you beleive him , your another sucker.
LOL

Answer 8

they have to blame someone and that is their best bet to get the weak minded to believe them

Answer 9

yes

Answer 10

democrat vs republican and democrat wins