Funny how Bushco is proposing sanctions for N Korea but Iraq was different

[mtnsnake]

Here we've got a bona fide nuclear threat in North Korea...with a leader of that country who's almost as insane as George Walker Bush...and Bush is proposing tough sanctions on them. Yet when it came to Iraq, all the sanctions in the world....which were arguably working and taking their toll on Hussein....were thrown out of the window in favor of an all-out military attack.

Not only is it so ironically hypocritical that Bush wants to sanction North Korea, but it proves to me that Bush knew that Iraq had no WMD's or he would never have taken the military route he did for the same fears he now has of North Korea. If he thought Iraq truly had WMD's then why wouldn't he take the same "sanction them" course that he wants to take with North Korea? That and the fact that Iraq has the oil and North Korea doesn't.

[Flirtus]

1. I dunno, maybe N Korea has no oil?

[lumberjack_jeff]

2. Sure gravel-ize a country with nothing but aspirations...

...mobilize troops to a country which has a program 6 years from fruition (at best) and threaten "tough sanctions" on an already starving country (that poverty being the root cause) which actually *has* nukes and the capability to deliver them to our allies.

As in everything, Bush's world is backwards.

[Chipper Chat]

3. Using BushLogic, I say the blivet will invade Japan.

You know - following the Iraq logic - invade an innocent neighbor.

[I_Will]

4. A case of the bully picking on the smallest kid in the school yard?

Just my opinion:

Iraq: not much of an army, no airforce to speak of, no stockpiles of nasty stuff to attack or defend with, probably not much militant nationalism or religionism as I've heard them described as "well-educated", "secular" and "moderate". Sanctions, inspections and no-fly zones severely limited options to do anything we wouldn't like.

Plan: Walk in, kick butt with the most advanced military in the world, occupy until the oil is gone and be stationed for subsequent actions when it does run out.

Result: Didn't work.

NK and Iran: Army, Airforce, nukes and nasties with a whole lot of capacity to fan the flames of various -isms and greater willingness to fight and die for a bigger-than-the-here-and-now cause. As in "not a cakewalk."

Plan: Ignore and hope it doesn't hit the fan until the admin is out of office and it becomes somebody else's problem.

Result: Didn't work.

[mtnsnake]

5. The smallest kid & the kid who just happens to have some oil, too

Bush thought it would be like taking candy from a baby.

Good post, BTW.

[hijinx87]

6. no kidding. suddenly multilateralism isn't such a bad thingy.

maybe if kim jung il had tried to kill poppy . . . . . :eyes:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

7. Sanctions don't work....Oh, wait a minute, they DO!