http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/2/28/23191/0117Impeachment Watch: Bush Admin Provoked North Korea Crisis On Shaky Intelligence by Mash
Wed Feb 28, 2007 at 08:30:14 PM PST
The Washington Post and the New York Times are both reporting that the Bush Administration's claim that North Korea had a secret uranium program is apparently not based on much solid evidence. The problem is that this is the same intelligence they used to provoke the North Korea crisis in the first place.
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According to the Washington Post:
The administration's stance today stands in sharp contrast to the certainty expressed by top officials in 2002, when the administration accused Pyongyang of running a secret uranium program -- and demanded it be dismantled at once. President Bush told a news conference that November: "We discovered that contrary to an agreement they had with the United States, they're enriching uranium, with a desire of developing a weapon."
According to the NYT:
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.
The pattern is now clear. In
all three cases of the "Axis of Evil", the Bush Administration has provoked a crisis based on cooked intelligence. Surely, impeachment proceedings are in order.
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