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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-04-07 03:45 PM
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this brings to light the flawed intel ---that we had for Iraq and now for
NKorea. so said Brit Hume today. I think it was Brit.
But the point is------it is still all about the CIA and flawed intell ----not how it was used. No one corrected him (chris wallace show today--panal discussion.


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Topic subject U.S. Concedes Uncertainty on North Korean Uranium Effort
Topic URL http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2750437#2750437
2750437, U.S. Concedes Uncertainty on North Korean Uranium Effort
Posted by cal04 on Wed Feb-28-07 09:21 PM

Last October, the North Koreans tested their first nuclear device, the fruition of decades of work to make a weapon out of plutonium.

For nearly five years, though, the Bush administration, based on intelligence estimates, has accused North Korea of also pursuing a secret, parallel path to a bomb, using enriched uranium. That accusation, first leveled in the fall of 2002, resulted in the rupture of an already tense relationship: The United States cut off oil supplies, and the North Koreans responded by throwing out international inspectors, building up their plutonium arsenal and, ultimately, producing that first plutonium bomb.

But now, American intelligence officials are publicly softening their position, admitting to doubts about how much progress the uranium enrichment program has actually made. The result has been new questions about the Bush administration’s decision to confront North Korea in 2002.

“The question now is whether we would be in the position of having to get the North Koreans to give up a sizeable arsenal if this had been handled differently,” a senior administration official said this week.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/01/washington/01korea.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1172719183-gE12r3NLUpM8ZRgVJY4kHg
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creeksneakers2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-04-07 03:48 PM
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1. Hume gave the party line
Edited on Sun Mar-04-07 04:03 PM by creeksneakers2
Conservatives say North Korea admitted they had the bomb so either they do have it or its North Korea's fault if we got it wrong. Whether the North Koreans admitted it or not is disputed.
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