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stever
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GlennMacGrady
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Posted: 04/08/17 9:50 pm ::: Re: Carrier-led strike group headed toward Korean Peninsula |
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stever wrote: |
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/08/politics/navy-korean-peninsula/index.html
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cthskzfn
Joined: 21 Nov 2004 Posts: 12851 Location: In a world where a PSYCHOpath like Trump isn't potus.
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Posted: 04/09/17 8:43 am ::: |
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A desperate move to shore up his poll numbers.
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Shades
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Posted: 04/09/17 11:37 am ::: |
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cthskzfn wrote: |
A desperate move to shore up his poll numbers. |
People love world wars? Good way to spend money instead of free health care.
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pilight
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Posted: 04/09/17 11:59 am ::: |
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Shades wrote: |
cthskzfn wrote: |
A desperate move to shore up his poll numbers. |
People love world wars? Good way to spend money instead of free health care. |
People like to see the bad guys get shot
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Howee
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readyAIMfire53
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Posted: 04/20/17 11:23 pm ::: |
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cthskzfn wrote: |
A desperate move to shore up his poll numbers. |
Why is nobody here talking about the most bigly story here. The war ships were actually headed AWAY from N.Korea.
It is truly desperate to get his macho on and report the wrong news. Either he knew it was wrong (ho hum - another lie) or he didn't know (total incompetence).
We could have gotten a N.Korean riding a bomb headed to the US a' la Dr. Strangelove.
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tfan
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Posted: 04/20/17 11:46 pm ::: |
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pilight wrote: |
Shades wrote: |
cthskzfn wrote: |
A desperate move to shore up his poll numbers. |
People love world wars? Good way to spend money instead of free health care. |
People like to see the bad guys get shot |
I would say they like to see the US using their military might. No one knows if, for example, the Iraqi soldiers that we dropped bombs on out in the desert (softening them up as Colin Powell euphemistically put it) were bad guys. Nor do we know if any of the people working or living in buildings that we bombed were bad guys.
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tfan
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cthskzfn
Joined: 21 Nov 2004 Posts: 12851 Location: In a world where a PSYCHOpath like Trump isn't potus.
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Posted: 04/21/17 10:35 am ::: |
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readyAIMfire53 wrote: |
cthskzfn wrote: |
A desperate move to shore up his poll numbers. |
Why is nobody here talking about the most bigly story here. The war ships were actually headed AWAY from N.Korea.
It is truly desperate to get his macho on and report the wrong news. Either he knew it was wrong (ho hum - another lie) or he didn't know (total incompetence).
We could have gotten a N.Korean riding a bomb headed to the US a' la Dr. Strangelove. |
http://boards.rebkell.net/viewtopic.php?t=91549
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StevenHW
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Posted: 04/21/17 11:55 am ::: |
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pilight wrote: |
Shades wrote: |
cthskzfn wrote: |
A desperate move to shore up his poll numbers. |
People love world wars? Good way to spend money instead of free health care. |
People like to see the bad guys get shot. |
"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography". - Quote attributed to either Ambrose Bierce or Mark Twain
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5thmantheme
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Posted: 04/21/17 2:36 pm ::: |
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Have you ever seen a laddie, go this way, and that way, and this way, and that way, and ...
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pilight
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Posted: 04/25/17 8:23 am ::: |
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American Media Are Getting People at Home Ready for War With North Korea
http://gizmodo.com/american-media-are-getting-people-at-home-ready-for-war-1794620783
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Again, this might be a good time to pause and think about your feelings on North Korea a few months ago. Was the country an existential threat to you then? If you’re feeling more inclined to support a preemptive war against North Korea, as Trump has said is now a very real possibility, what changed? |
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linkster
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Posted: 04/25/17 8:36 pm ::: |
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A different POV about Korea from Australia.
http://journal-neo.org/2017/04/24/just-who-does-pose-the-greater-threat-in-korea/
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What is scarcely acknowledged in the west was the devastation the Korean War wrought upon the North. The US led UN Command dropped more bombs on the north than the US had dropped in the whole Pacific theatre in World War 2. This included the dropping of 20,000 tonnes of napalm, a particularly gruesome way of killing people. This method was later used to equally horrific effect in Vietnam.
We now also know that the US waged bacteriological warfare, building upon Japanese expertise garnered in their war on China and further developed by US scientists at Fort Detrick.
An estimated two million people, or 20% of the total population, were killed. The bombing flattened every city in the country. In addition, the bombing targeted irrigation dams on the Yalu River. The intention was to destroy the rice crop and thereby starve the population into submission. Only emergency assistance from, among others, the Soviet Union and China prevented widespread famine and death.
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North Korea signed the nuclear treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons (NPT) in December 1985. A further non-proliferation agreement came into force in May 1992, at which time IAEA inspections of North Korea’s compliance with the NPT began. There were disputes about North Korea’s actual compliance with the NPT, but the significant point is that the North Koreans agreed to the IAEA’s inspection demands. In exchange, the US suspended its joint military exercises with the South Koreans and agreed to face to face negotiations to resolve outstanding issues.
These talks resulted in a wide-ranging agreement in October 1994, popularly referred to as the “Agreed Framework”. Shortly after the Framework was signed however, the Republican Party took control of Congress. Implementation of the Agreed Framework ceased almost immediately because of US Congressional hostility. The North Koreans repeatedly warned from that point that they would have no option other than to resume their nuclear program.
A further preliminary agreement was reached in September 2005 following the so-called six party talks (South Korea, North Korea, China, Japan, Russia and the US). No progress has been made since then, although the North Koreans reiterated as recently as November 2010 that they were willing to conclude an agreement to end its nuclear program, place the program under IAEA inspection, and conclude a permanent treaty to replace the 1953 armistice. In short, to implement what had been agreed (along with a number of other points) in October 1994.
It is the US that has refused to sit down with North Korea and negotiate such a settlement. Instead, the US has installed the THAAD missile system in South Korea, which the Chinese, as well as the North Koreans, correctly claim is a direct threat to their security.
The US continues to conduct joint military exercises off the Korean coast, the maritime boundaries of which are themselves in violation of international maritime law. Further, as noted above, the making of threats of unilateral (and illegal) military action are hardly conducive to the resolution of any dispute. Neither is unhelpfully labeling the other party a member of an “axis of evil” likely to do anything to improve relations.
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justintyme
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