McCain Blames Clinton For North Korean Nuke Test

[kpete]

VIDEO: McCain Blames Clinton For North Korean Nuke Test

Today at a news conference, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) blamed the current predicament with North Korea on the Clinton administration. Watch it:

CNN: Well John McCain blames Bill Clinton for the current predicament with Pyongyang. The Republican senator says that Mr. Clinton didn’t do enough to make North Korea scrap its nuclear program in the 90s. He said the 1994 agreement was a failure.

McCAIN: Prior to the agreement, every single time the Clinton administration warned the Koreans not to do something — not to kick out the IAEA inspectors, not to remove the fuel rods from their reactor — they did it, and they were rewarded every single time by the Clinton administration with further talks.

CNN: McCain spoke outside Detroit at a campaign stop for a GOP senate candidate.

Videoo and more at:
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/10/mccain-clinton/

[rfranklin]

1. McCain is an asshole...

Keep that in mind.

[tularetom]

2. You mean like the $90 million the * administration gave them in '02?

[Rockholm]

3. Yeah, Whatever. Keep moving.

Doesn't take long for this conservative POS to rear his ugly, pale as shit mug. Maverick, my ass.

[jaxx]

4. Just remember that hug.

He's dubya's boy.

[ProgressiveFool]

5. anybody have that McCain hug pic handy?

I promised someone I'd send it to them to show how utterly shameless McCain is. You know, the one where he's got his eyes closed, sniffing Bush's armpit with such a dreamy contented smile on his face.

[Reverend_Smitty]

9. you mean this one

[Fleshdancer]

6. I wonder what McCain was saying about this when Clinton was in office

Knowing McCain, I'm sure he's contradicting himself right now. I think I'll go ask the google gods about this.

[BuyingThyme]

8. You'll find that he's pretty consistent, but gives Chimpy a pass.

[BuyingThyme]

7. Clinton failed to keep Bush from ignoring Korea.

:rofl:

[The_Casual_Observer]

10. Even if this was true, isn't 6+ years long enough to correct the mistakes

that they might have made? Or was it better to just let it go so as to claim blaming rights later?

[flpoljunkie]

11. BBC: Bush waived Clinton Framework requirement that NK allow inspectors!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/asia-pacific/1908571.stm

Wednesday, 3 April, 2002, 12:06 GMT 13:06 UK

US grants N Korea nuclear funds


Pyongyang threatened to pull out of the nuclear deal

The US Government has announced that it will release $95m to North Korea as part of an agreement to replace the Stalinist country's own nuclear programme, which the US suspected was being misused.

Under the 1994 Agreed Framework an international consortium is building two proliferation-proof nuclear reactors and providing fuel oil for North Korea while the reactors are being built.

In releasing the funding, President George W Bush waived the Framework's requirement that North Korea allow inspectors to ensure it has not hidden away any weapons-grade plutonium from the original reactors.

President Bush argued that the decision was "vital to the national security interests of the United States".