May 02, 2005

The Self-Named “Reality-Based” Party Gave North Korea Nuke Reactors—Now Tries to Blame GWB

This nonsense from Hillary is achieving Orwellian absurdity. She actually accused GWB of letting North Korea get nukes:

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton is blaming President Bush for the fact that North Korea can now hit the U.S. with nuclear missiles – after a top intelligence official told her Thursday that Kim Jong Il’s ICBMs can now reach the Northwestern U.S.

“They couldn’t do that when George Bush became president, and now they can,” Mrs. Clinton complained to the New York Times.

However, a North Korean delegation has stated that it obtained its first nukes while Clinton was in office:

White House chief of staff Andrew Card fired back at New York Sen. Hillary Clinton on Sunday, pointing out that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il obtained his first nuclear weapon while her husband was president.

... “Or on President Clinton’s watch. Some of those weapons may well have been produced as they were violating the agreement they had with President Clinton. That’s what a North Korean delegation said to an American diplomat. And they said it with great pride.”

It was the Clinton Administration that actually gave North Korea the very nuclear reactors it has used to produce the nuclear weapons:

Last June, Pyongyang said it wanted to return to the Agreed Framework negotiated by the Clinton administration, which gave North Korea two plutonium-producing light water nuclear reactors and turned the country into the largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid in the Asia-Pacific region.

The Clinton administration did so despite official warnings by the House that those reactors could be used to produce nuclear weapons:

The top Democrat pointed her finger at the Bush administration despite a 1999 congressional finding that North Korea first obtained the capacity to develop nuclear weapons under her husband’s administration, which actually gave Kim Jong Il nuclear technology in exchange for the promise that he would not make weapons.

A report compiled at the time by the House North Korea Advisory Group warned: “If the [Clinton administration’s] 1994 Agreed Framework is implemented and two [U.S. Light Water Reactors] are eventually built and operated in North Korea, the reactors could produce close to 500 kilograms of plutonium in spent reactor fuel each year; enough for nearly 100 bombs annually if North Korea decides to break its obligations and reprocess the material.”

Not only does Hillary pretend it wasn’t the Clinton administration that gave North Korea the ability to produce nuclear weapons; she also pretends GWB is to blame for North Korea’s nuclear weapons. It’s beyond absurd.

May 01, 2005

Pacific Research Institute Measures How Well the U.S. is Doing on the Environment

From the Pacific Research Institute Tenth Anniversary Index of Leading Environmental Indicators:

Also:

• The nation with the lowest carbon-intensity (the ratio of carbon emissions to GCP) is France because of its use of nuclear power.
• The following increased in 2004: the bald eagle, whales, forestlands, and wetlands on private land.
• Air pollution in the U.S. has fallen to the lowest level ever recorded.

  Impressive.

  
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