The fell apart after former President Obama took office
As did the writing in that sentence.
To say nothing about context, like Bush having previously reneged on the agreeent and halt the fuel oil shipments we promised NK for halting their nuke program and that was what destroyed the deal.
Thanks “Dumbya” for your stupid as fuck “Axis of evil” bullshit.
And thanks TPM for passing along important bad information for context.
That reminds me of the huge social affairs the making of turtle soup would be among the adults of my childhood…the hunting of the giant snapping turtles, their gruesome executions and butcherings and the day-long social affair the outdoor cooking of the soup in a gigantic iron pot over an open fire would become. Sounds surreal just typing this…
“Super-mighty preemptive strike” by controllers with huge hands, no doubt.
I reckon this is just the Russians jerking both of their pawns around.
Here’s a handy timeline from CNN I found on NK nuclear development:
And Adjectives Turned into Adverbs contest. Think “bigly.”
Warmongering for Ninnies…
PS, Russia’s new Arctic Base is hungering for its Exxon deep drill…
Never hunt giant McConnells who house a snapping jaw inside a hard shell. It does not always end well.
The beheading of the snapping turtles…what a childhood memory to claim.
“I thought it was important that people on the other side of the DMZ see our resolve in my face.”
Mike Pence has that same fucking look on his face no matter the situation. I would bet he has pictures at his kid’s birthday parties with that smug look on his face, as he probably does when he takes a shit sitting on the toilet. That’s not resolve, that’s a combination of arrogance and constipation. It looks like he’s been practicing that look in front of the mirror for years. I bet he’s been fooling himself into believing that’s his tough look. Nuh-uh. Just more contrived bullshit. The guy is a fucking replicant…minus any personality.
Funeral Home Coffin salesman.
And they used to say Al Gore was stiff. Hah. If Al Gore was stiff…what the hell is Mike Pence then?
What does it say that the NK leaders and trump speak the same blustery rhetorical language?
Badly embalmed?
They certainly delivered a message to him:
“Not only do I have enough hair that I can afford to shave half of it off, you fake President, but I can easily take you in a battle of revealingly gratuitous superlatives.”
That timeline glosses over and ignores us halting agreed to heating oil shipments under Bush as part of the agreed framework negotiated under Preisndet Clinton:
In October 2002, a U.S. delegation led by Assistant Secretary of State James A. Kelly visited North Korea to confront the North Koreans with the U.S. assessment that they had a uranium enrichment program. The parties’ reports of the meeting differ. The U.S. delegation believed the North Koreans had admitted the existence of a highly enriched uranium program. The North Koreans stated Kelly made his assertions in an arrogant manner, but failed to produce any evidence such as satellite photos, and they responded denying North Korea planned to produce nuclear weapons using enriched uranium. They went on to state that as an independent sovereign state North Korea was entitled to possess nuclear weapons for defense, although they did not possess such a weapon at that point in time. Relations between the two countries, which had seemed hopeful two years earlier, quickly deteriorated into open hostility.
The HEU intelligence that James Kelly’s accusation is based on is still controversial: According to the CIA fact sheet to Congress on November 19, 2002, there was “clear evidence indicating the North has begun constructing a centrifuge facility” and this plant could produce annually enough HEU for two or more nuclear weapons per year when it is finished. However, some experts assessed that the equipment North Korea imported was insufficient evidence of a production-scale enrichment program.
KEDO members considered in November 2002 whether to halt the fuel oil shipments in response to the previous month’s developments. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State James A. Kelly warned Japanese officials that the U.S. Congress would not fund such shipments in the face of continued violations. The shipments were halted in December.
That isn’t to say that NK is a stable or reliable actor in following through on agreements and such. But the misinformation TPM mangled in the single sentence alone is a real disservice in trying to lay the break down of the agreed framework on President Obama. That sentence is only off by 7 years and one administration. Hell Barack Obama wasn’t even a U.S. Senator yet.
This is Fox News level blather coming from TPM in a mangled throw-away line.
And now I know how many morans it takes to screw a country.
