[miss_silver]

Originally Posted by RDixon

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapc.../nkorea.blast/

Since we all know for a fact that a "US Official" would never ever lie...


http://www.guardian.co.uk/korea/arti...952289,00.html

Especially one as high ranking as Rummy...


North Korea did just as they told Bush they would; they restarted their heavy water reactor, obtained help from China, and built several nuclear bombs.

They also successfully tested one.

Yes, you got to love those medias, even Rummy feels that they are not positive enough for his taste...

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) -- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Tuesday accused critics of the Bush administration's Iraq and counterterrorism policies of lacking the courage to fight terror.

In unusually explicit terms, Rumsfeld portrayed the administration's critics as suffering from "moral and intellectual confusion" about what threatens the nation's security.

Addressing several thousand veterans at the American Legion's national convention, Rumsfeld recited what he called the lessons of history, including the failed efforts to appease the Adolf Hitler regime in the 1930s.

"I recount this history because once again we face the same kind of challenges in efforts to confront the rising threat of a new type of fascism" he said.

Rumsfeld spoke to an American Legion convention as part of a coordinated White House strategy, in advance of the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on U.S. soil, aiming to take the offensive against administration critics at a time of doubt about the future of Iraq and how long U.S. troops must remain there.

Rumsfeld recalled a string of recent terrorist attacks, from the 9/11 attacks to bombings in Bali, London and Madrid, and said it should be obvious to anyone that terrorists must be confronted, not appeased.

"But it is apparent that many have still not learned history's lessons," he said, adding that part of the problem is that the American news media have tended to emphasize the negative rather than the positive.

He said, for example, that more media attention was given to U.S. soldiers' abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib than to the fact that Sgt. 1st Class Paul Ray Smith received the Medal of Honor.

Recently learned that it is illegal to watch Al-Manar TV in the States, one NY sat dealer even got arrested because he provided his customers with such a set up. The worst part is, anyone in the States with a free to air unit can watch it on telstar5 if they wish to