Are we ready for war with North Korea, pentagon thinks so!

[bahrbearian]

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030806.ukore0807/BNStory/International/?query=north+korea I guess we're all rested up so get out your flags.

[wuushew]

1. Who are these "unnamed hawks" who won't go on record?

Are PNACers that cowardly?

Seems like the debate on North Korea will happen after the fact, just like in Iraq.

[hang a left]

2. Here we go again

Only this time, the consequences for the entire world could be dire

[Clete]

3. If this is true,

you'd better start sending your teenaged sons and even daughters to Canada or New Zealand. The draft is coming.

[Redleg]

Bring 'em on!

We'll go in there and have a cakewalk like in Iraq, where the people greeted our troops with flowers and bottles of fine wine and cognac. <sarcasm off>

Yes, this crap is scaring me. I wonder if they really think they can pull off a war in Korea while still having over 150,000 in Iraq. Sheer bloody arrogance.

[bahrbearian]

6. We won't need troops because

there will be nothing left to occupy after a couple weeks.

[nedlogg]

4. Leave it to the Pentagon . . .

and we'd be at war all the time with everybody. That's their job. They live for war.

Our job (ie, the government or "We the People" as it was once called) is to keep them reigned in and under control.

[Redleg]

5. Not completely accurate.

Many top Army and Marine Corps generals did not want to go to war in Iraq. I think the greatest push for war is from Rumsfeld and his Neo-con buddies (Wolfowitz, et al.) and the top military generals who have sucked up to the new order. A number of top Army generals have retired or have been replaced by Rummy, ostensibly because they don't believe in permanent war.

[Capn Sunshine]

7. As usual, they miss the obvious

They think the arbitrary line drawn by US forces after world war 2 has actually created two different groups of people, "North Koreans" --VERY evil --- and "South Koreans --the GOOD folks.

No one has bothered to ask the Korean people how they wil feel about this but believe me, there are millions living in the South who despise the US and what they have done to Korean Culture and its people over th past 50 years.

Despite the fact that hundreds of thousands of "good guys" will perish in any attack of NoKo, they will blunder ahead, and then scratch their heads in bewilderment when they are attacked by guerilla movements in the South.

Speaking of war crimes, at least 70,000 Koreans in the south were killed in a US sanctioned sweep for commies. You don't hera much about that.

But the worse fate of all, we will collapse like the Roman Empire due to the same problem: over-extended armies and bankrupting the economy to pay for this.