Should the United States allow a country openly hostile to it and armed with nuclear weapons to perfect an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of delivering nuclear weapons to U.S. soil? We believe not.
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Therefore, if North Korea persists in its launch preparations, the United States should immediately make clear its intention to strike and destroy the North Korean Taepodong missile before it can be launched.
Well, they're still critical in their article of the Bush administration, naturally, but, hey, they're Democrats, natch.
And I would say to them: it's fine to recommend preemption. But do remember your party's not in power. Would you have recommended preemption if they were? And what if a Dem prez just did nothing or just bombed a tent and a camel or something (which wouldn't be a surprise)? Then they'd have to rip into their partisan leader. Perhaps this is their plan-- to rip into Bush, as whatever he does or doesn't do, the leftist Dems can be counted on to blame him for anything and everything that doesn't end up perfectly. As if Democrats themselves have ever been perfect and can therefore attack others for being imperfect!
Not only that, a preemptive strike of this sort against Iran's nuclear capabilities isn't being recommended by Democrats nor by the left. It isn't that simple, I'd say to these two Demmies. Let them wait until, perhaps in fifty years from now, the Dems are back in power. Then they can pretend to be hawks! Today it just looks silly of them to pretend to be more hawkish than Dubya. After all, as imperfect as Dubya might be, I'd rather he be President than Dhimmis and appeaseniks like the dumbass ketchup gigolo John Kerry or Screamin' Insane Howie Dean or (gag) Hillary (wife of Slick Willy) Clinton, against whom half of Americans would definitely vote, according to a poll I noticed the other day...
(Heh... so bring on Hillary in '08!)
But still a good thing. Should Bush proceed to be preemptive against NK and also Iran, the fact that Clinton's former Sec/Asst Sec of Defence have supported the action will be cited to blunt the standard leftist condemnations of Bush's efforts to protect America and the Free World.
I say: an ultimatum to the enemy to stand down or we'll make 'em... by force... is what is needed. Oh, and of course, they shall also be advised that attacking the Free World could very well mean the end of those Axis countries.
h/t: National Terror Alert Response Center (clickable headlines in sidebar at right)
