AFP "Cheney fears NKorea will give terrorists nuclear knowhow"

[GCP]

Here we go, folks, the next war.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1520&e=2&u=/afp/20040415/pl_afp/china_us_cheney_nkorea_040415084101

SHANGHAI (AFP) - US Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) voiced fears that North Korea (news - web sites) will provide nuclear technology to terrorist groups like Al-Qaeda, and warned of a nuclear arms race in Asia if it is not stopped.
"Time is not necessarily on our side," he told students at Fudan University in Shanghai, referring to the Stalinist state's nuclear weapons capabilities.

"We worry given what they've done in the past, and given current capabilities, that North Korea could very well provide this technology to someone else, or terror groups.

"We know that there are terror groups like Al-Qaeda that have tried to acquire nuclear weapons before."

Few analysts however seem to believe the idea of North Korea as a major potential proliferator of weapons of mass destruction.

Pyongyang's diplomats are more likely to use this option for blackmail, threatening to equip terrorists if the United States pushes them too hard, they say.

[Robbien]

1. Cheney's nuts

First he tells China they need to keep North Korea in line and then he makes this public statement which of course will rile North Korea.

If Cheney is doing this to influence the South Korean elections, his timing is way off. But it sure will keep that country in turmoil for several months to come.

We should just stay out of foreign nations. Our foreign policy stinks.

[Muddleoftheroad]

2. How do we do that

Stay out of foreign nations? What would have us do? Pull out every soldier and sailor on foreign soil? How about business interests?

[Disturbed]

4. Foreign Policy

Cheney is a jerk with no freakin' sense. The USA has
a State Dept that gets paid to deal with countries.
He should keep his smirk ass mouth shut about a lot
of things and this was certainly one of them.
Didn't a company he was woring with try sell NK some
nuclear material or equip. in the 80s?

[Muddleoftheroad]

6. I would call that a non-answer

And the State Dept. comment cracks me up. The one thing both sides agree on in D.C. is that they can't stand the gray suits at State. The State Dept. has a nasty tendency to pursue its own agenda no matter who is in the White House. During Clinton, there were very similar complaints about State as there are during *.

[chenGOD]

11. Cheney: running scared.

He came to South Korea today, the day they're having parliamentary elections. He'll be staying less than 24 hours. Anyone else find this scheduling just a little bit timid on Limp Dick's part?

[MSgt213]

3. If North Korea wanted to do that what has stopped them Mr. Cheny?

North Korea enjoys at the moment China's protection if you think about it China would be not please at all if North Korea did something like this because it would be seen as a threat to China's security. North Korea would be shooting themselves in the foot selling nukes to terrorist.

[Muddleoftheroad]

5. OK, you are assuming NK acts rationally

That's your first mistake.

[MSgt213]

9. Wrong I'm assuming that at all. What I would'nt assume though is that

they have a death wish. My argument has more to do with self preservation. People can seem not to be rational but that does'nt equate to them being stupid.

[Muddleoftheroad]

12. Again, even self preservation argues for logic

But I never said they were stupid.

[Mountainman]

10. Are you assuming Cheney acts in our best interests?

I seems to me the one you should be questioning is Cheney. Why does the vice president go around the world and try to make our foreign policy for us? Were is Bush? Where is Powell?

[Muddleoftheroad]

13. Cheney acts in Cheney's interests

[w13rd0]

16. Are there mornings where you...

...fall off the left side of the bed? Or do you always fall off the right? And does that make it difficult to remember where you are at when you type?

[Muddleoftheroad]

18. How is an anti-Cheney comment

Considered a conservative view?

I'd alert, but I'd really rather have an answer.

[w13rd0]

19. Go ahead and alert...

...I didn't say squat about a "conservative view".

Oh, but you want an answer...to a question you asked in response to a statement unstated...tell us about known unknowns and unknown knowns...please...

[Muddleoftheroad]

20. OK, that was certainly a weird post

Again, why do you think making an anti-Cheney comment is conservative?

[0007]

7. The Real Truth about Richard Cheney's fear's

...is that Halliburton will be run out of Iraq.

Now that junior and his crime cabal is taking flack and hell from the American people, Cheney is gonna scare us with the Korea thingie.

Yeah right Dick, tell us something we don't know? Like your secret energy papers and the folks who were at your meeting.

Your loaded for bear alright mr. cheney. Bear Shit that is -

Shut the Fuck up Cheney!!

[Robbien]

8. Remember Cheney is the one who still is

claiming that the trailers are proof of WMD.

His full attention is on money and power. And for everything else it is as if he lives in a bubble.

[0007]

14. I didn't know that? I heard that Colin now knows the trailers

were a WMD lab.

Thanks for the info Robbien.

[The Zanti Regent]

15. This is insane.

I guess we now live in the Bizarro World

[Robbien]

17. Just checked and saw that Cheney stopped making the claim

around the first of April when the news came out that Chalabi's group was the one that supplied the erroneous information.

So for the last two weeks he has remained silent on the issue, but before that at every fund raising dinner Cheney brought out the trailer as evidence of WMD.

[teryang]

21. Chechny's protections of Pakistani proliferation

...is what enabled N. Korea to obtain nuclear weapons technology. There is absolutely no evidence of their proliferation.

Having brought south Asia to the brink of nuclear war on more than one occassion and lied under oath in Congress about these matters in the past, he has zero credibility with China.

[Barrett808]

22. No worries - no oil in N. Korea n/t

[Corgigal]

23. Doesn't matter really

Kahn already did and the US looked the other way because we are
"hunting" down Osama for the re-election.

[priller]

24. He should be looking at Pakistani Dr. Khan, who they "pardoned"

if he wants to stop proliferation of "nuclear knowhow". He's the one who provided it to the North Koreans, after all.

But no, Pakistan is our ally. Sure it was the #1 spreader of nuclear secrets, bin Laden is currently hiding out within it's borders, but Bush says they're an ally. And, as we all know, he's NEVER wrong.

[David__77]

25. Each bomb dropped against a sovereign people increases the chances.

...provided N. Korea even has such know-how. I think that sovereign states will certainly resist the aggressive US attempts to impose a unipolar world order.

[sam sarrha]

26. maybe that is why the NEOCON's are pissing them off, a Nuke in NYC would

would take the heat off the Iraqi problem.