Elaine Meinel Supkis
The confrontational diplomacy is bearing the usual fruits: rising tensions and increasing dangers. North Korea has decided the sanctions are a declaration of war. Since Bush declared war on NK in 2002, this means shooting can commence at any time. Talk about hairtrigger. And Iran calls Bush a satanist. They are correct. And Iraq's destruction continues unabated.
China has appealed to Pyongyang not to escalate tensions, urging its key ally to resolve the issue "through dialogue and consultation".
NEW UN SANCTIONS
Bans sale to, or export from, N Korea of military hardware
Bans sale or export of nuclear and missile related items
Bans sale of luxury goods
Freezes finances and bans travel of anyone involved in nuclear, missile programmes
Allows inspection of cargo to and from N Korea
Stresses new resolution needed for further actionWho stands where
The UN Security Council unanimously voted on Saturday to impose sanctions, targeting Pyongyang's weapons and missile programmes as well as luxury goods.
In its first official statement since the vote, North Korea said it "vehemently denounced" the resolution and called it a "product of US hostile policy" towards the country.
"The resolution cannot be construed otherwise than a declaration of a war" against the North, the statement from the foreign ministry said, echoing comments made by North Korea's ambassador to the UN on Saturday.
Great. We had one stalemate war with North Korea. Now we can have another? The last one destroyed much of the infrastructure of Korea. This one could destroy the planet. The horses left the nuclear bomb barn long ago. When the USA imposed much weaker sanctions on Pakistan and India, they ignored it and after a very short while, we ignored it and indeed, we are frantically arming both countries.
North Korea expects the same courtesy. Ditto Iran. Of course, the USA has declared war on both nations so they won't get this same boon. This means the world gets a boom instead. Confrontations with countries that aren't flashpoints for world war is dangerous. Getting into terminal fights with countries that ARE obvious flashpoints for world wars is beyond dangerous, it is suicidal.
It is obvious to everyone that North Korea won't back down. If the people are really pushed hard, they will lash out. I once trapped a large rat in New York City. I threw a brick at it and it jumped at my face. I hit it with a garbage can lid. It took myself and a passing truck driver who saw the fight, some effort to kill this rat. There was blood all over the place. A horrible mess.
And there is an old saying about cornering small animals: they always turn and fight. So when the rat that is cornered pulls out a nuke, it pays to back off and reconsider. We aren't going to disarm North Korea. Period. Even China can't do this now. If we blockade the place, they simply will set off the inevitable fireworks. The Chinese don't want this and are really ticked off at our inept diplomacy that has set this disaster in motion.
Another thing one should avoid is religious wars.
By Frances Harrison
BBC News, TehranAhmadinejad says he has inspirational links to God
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has reportedly delivered a scathing attack on US President George W Bush, saying he is inspired by Satan.
Just this month, the man who ran the religious outreach for the White House wrote a book about how all the satanists in the White House mock the brain-dead religious followers of the satanic ritualist who runs America. This very revealing book is causing a stir at home but to me, this is ridiculous. From day one, it should have been crystal clear to anyone watching Bush that he is a ritual satanist. Pretending the Skull and Bones is just a fraternity that happens to ape every single satanist ritual known to man is a frat prank is dangerous. After all, even teens can practice satanism and quite a few do so it isn't much of a stretch to understand that people over the age of 21 and all the Skull and Boners are above that age.
It pays to note the intentions and beliefs of satanists (which are NOT 'Wiccan'). The fact that the present crew of satanists also support the Catholic Church in destructive ways should alarm religious leaders in the Vatican except the guy on the throne with the seven tiered crown on his head is a former Nazi who believes in the satanic power of the Apocalypse. Erg. He declared war on Islam at Regensburg, Germany and then retreated when the resulting firestorm left him exposed.
The End of Times Protestants in America who support Bush do so because they want war. And they can't understand the Apocalypse's warnings about the antichrist because their lust for killing off fellow Americans who 'sin' has destroyed any sense of humanity, love or compassion. So now we have world leaders calling each other the Axis of Evil or Satan and this sort of talk is fueling a fire we can't douse.
Click here to see the jihad's home video of the American base they successfully blew up in Iraq. I will note this ends with talk about Mecca, the Jihad, and cleansing Isalm of Western influences. The desert storm we unleashed wasn't the victory of the Christian/Jewish armies but rather a dark, blood-red storm that is gathering strength, not weakening at all.
By Borzou Daragahi
Times Staff WriterOctober 16, 2006
BAGHDAD — Months of bloodshed have threatened to loosen the bonds holding together Iraq's fractious government, with tensions between political blocs spilling out in recent days in fiery rhetoric as well as fighting that left more than 130 people dead nationwide.
Disagreements over several contentious issues burst into the open with a highly divisive vote on the issue of parceling Iraq into federal districts, finger-pointing over the assassination of a top politician's brother and a series of massacres between rival Shiite Muslims and Sunni Arabs north of the capital.
A fraternal war of Shi'a versus Sunni isn't going to help us. And having these wars take place in the heart of the world's oil reserves is pure insanity. Only a madman who worships the Devil that is Death while laying in a coffin in a building called the Tomb at Yale would want such an outcome and this all goes back to why we are in this mess: it doesn't pay to follow the devil.
And this satanist wants to stay the course of course.
By ANNE PLUMMER FLAHERTY, Associated Press Writer Mon Oct 16, 7:07 PM ETWASHINGTON - President Bush told Iraq's prime minister on Monday he has no plans to pull U.S. forces out of the war-torn country, in a conversation that underscored Iraqi worries that the president is being pressured to curtail America's role in the widely unpopular war.
In a 15-minute morning phone call, Bush told Nouri al-Maliki that rumors of a withdrawal of troops in two months were untrue and that the United States would stand strong with its new ally. But even as Bush reassured al-Maliki, he is having to confront growing doubts among Republicans in Congress about his war policies.
We lost Stalingrad, Hitler. It is gone. And can some brave general who is NOW on the Pentagon's top staff please go to Rummy and tell him this is over and if he doesn't withdraw the troops now, everyone is going to walk?
Of course, this means no cushy jobs, no golden parachute into some rich military/industrial company that is milking the government into bankruptcy. Everyone has to have a happy life except for the lower class, luckless saps sent into this obvious hell hole. They can die and death is OK with satanists: they want human sacrifices and this makes them very happy and I can only assume the leaders at the Pentagon, a building designed on satanic principles, these idiots don't care how many Americans die.
On a side note, the racism of the neonazi Israeli Jews keeps popping up.
By HERB KEINONIsrael's ambassador to Australia, Naftali Tamir, is on his way home to clarify comments in a newspaper interview in which he was quoted as saying that Israel and Australia are "like sisters in Asia," because "we don't have yellow skin and slanted eyes."
Naziism=war. And the mindset of Nazis, namely that they are pure, loved by god and deserve to rule the earth and their skin color and hair type are signals they are supermen and therefore have the obligation to enslave or murder untermenschen has so infected the minds of Jews living in Israel that they can't control the urge to blurt out in public outside of Israel, this sort of racist garbage.
And the Muslims in the Middle East are now destroying ancient religious communities that have lived in relative peace for a thousand years thanks to the USA cornering them and forcing them down this path. Any sign of nationalism in the past has been attacked vigorously and viciously by Israel and the USA in concert because Israel wanted weak neighbors. This has driven the people of these lands into radical religious extremism which is a terrible solution to the problem of looting the Palestinian people of everything they own.
The jihad tape in this article even mentions Palestine. The key to much of this mess.
"If we blockade the place, they simply will set off the inevitable fireworks."
EXACTLY!
Imposing sanctions, which leads to money strains on a country that is KNOWN to sell weapons will elicit exactly the opposite result what what you want.
Posted by: Liberal AND Proud | October 17, 2006 at 07:58 AM
"Since Bush declared war on NK in 2002, this means shooting can commence at any time."
He didn't need to - the 1950-53 Korean War has never officially ended. There's a cease-fire but no peace treaty, so shooting could have started any time in the last 53 years (and has actually occurred a number of times.)
On sanctions: it's not a blockade that has the NKs annoyed. It's the banking regulations: banks that process transactions with NK get shut out of world funds transfers. Since you can't run a bank that way, Kim Jong-Il is having trouble finding a place that will cash his checks. That started a year or so ago.
Here's a link:
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2006/oct/15/north_korea_actions_tied_banking_dispute/?opinion
Posted by: JSmith | October 17, 2006 at 11:32 AM
Maybe he should use American Express!
No offense, JSmith...but PULEEEZE.
Arms trafficers don't write checks to one another.
I was born at night, but it wasn't LAST NIGHT. Do you REALLY think that ALL the global banking system regulation and scrutiny has done ANYTHING except hinder the ability of HONEST people to conduct business?
Posted by: Liberal AND Proud | October 17, 2006 at 11:43 AM
Last night I was watching a rerun of "Family Guy" and Peter Griffin says "Put an Israeli guy next to an Arab guy and I can't tell the difference".
Posted by: sin | October 17, 2006 at 12:48 PM
Reason rules all things.
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