Why Bush would deal with a mad man is a mystery only known to himself and the mad people running our State Department. I will want to hear the story one day but I fear it might be an advanced case of what Ronald Regan got or some kind of coup d’état. Otherwise, it is very difficult to understand the radical change in Bush in the last few years. Maybe He wants to show some peace gesture to the world before Israel bombs Iran forcing the U.S. to join them. Or perhaps Bush needed this to get China and Russia to sign off on a strike on Iran. Who knows?

The U.S. is being played the fool by North Korea. We get to pay for the dismantling of their aging reactor and to supply them with critical food and energy and they get to keep the nuclear material and their missiles to deliver nukes. They also get to possibly try again to get nuclear material to other terrorists states like Syria and Iran.

Nothing is said about North Korea’s secret Uranium enrichment program that may continue to produce fissionable material. Now we are going to lift all sanctions and embargoes like they actually did something good and just turn a blind eye to the fact they just tried to give Syria what it takes to make a nuke. If that does not make North Korea a terrorist state I do not know what does. Thanks to Israel that plan was stopped but who knows what is going on in the slimy little demented mind of Kim Jong III?.

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It now turns out that the options the U.S. had been contemplating were designed not to punish North Korean duplicity but to encourage it. So it is that, despite its recent collaboration with Hezbollah-sponsor Syria – to say nothing of its intent, in the run-up the Iraq war, to sell $10 million worth of medium-range missiles to Saddam Hussein for use against coalition troops – North Korea no longer will be designated a terrorist state. Never mind that the country has yet to come clean about its nuclear program. In the eyes of the Bush administration, North Korea has been given a clean slate.

And legitimacy. Notwithstanding its defiance of every nuclear treaty it has ever signed – a habit of violation that continues in its latest declaration, which reportedly discusses only plutonium processing activities and not the uranium enrichment and nuclear capabilities that were supposed to have been declared – North Korea is being treated as a credible partner in negotiations instead of the extortionist state that it clearly is. Fool the Bush administration once, the lesson appears to be, and you wind up in the “axis-of-evil.” Fool it repeatedly, and all is forgiven.

As always with North Korea, there are token concessions. To demonstrate its sincerity, Pyongyang has invited foreign TV crews to broadcast its demolition of the cooling tower at the notorious Yongbyon nuclear plant. It promises to be quite the affair, though one would have to be really taken in by spectacle to forget that the plant was already supposed to be completely disabled in the 1990s and, more recently, by the end of 2007. Nor will the made-for-the-cameras moment prove that North Korea has nothing to hide. The facility at Yongbyon is believed to have been shuttered last year, having already produced enough weapons-grade plutonium to build, by some estimates, at least nine nuclear bombs. To see the destruction of this Potemkin reactor as a sign of genuine progress is to yield to illusion.

John Bolton and I have been saying the North Koreans have been playing us for fools since all this started. Even after North Korea got caught assembling a Plutonium reactor in Syria the Foggy Bottom ostriches put their head in the sand and pretended not to see their secret weapons program. It is also obvious that ostriches are setting policy in the Middle East. These Foggy Bottom ostriches never learn because they are influenced by bird brains like Albright, Rice, Scowcroft, Brzezinski, and Carter who fear rabbits but like all ostriches eat their excrement. These Liberal idealists actually expect good will and sanity to come out of evil demented murderous people. Ostriches tend to put their neck out so their heads can be chopped off. They are so farsighted they see mirage utopias of unreachable delusions. They are dangerous because they continually kick against those who try to feed them the truth. They put the whole world loony bin in a position of extreme danger. Just as did the ostriches prior to World War II.

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Mr. Bush was reportedly told last week by his Director of National Intelligence, Adm. Mike McConnell, that the U.S. intelligence community does not believe the regime in Pyongyang will denuclearize and that it will, instead, simply cheat on this deal as on all the previous ones. That being the case, it is all the more obvious that the president’s call for patience should apply first and foremost to his State Department’s efforts to give away what is left of the store — appropriate and needed designations of North Korea as a state-sponsor of terror and enemy of this country.

I suggest that no Secret Service or any other American lives be put in danger in Syria because Carter wants to play the fool. A fitting justice would be for Carter to end up like the hostages that he left rot in Iran when President.

Carter Defends Upcoming Meeting With Hamas in Syria - Politics | Republican Party | Democratic Party | Political Spectrum

Several State Department officials, including the secretary, Condoleezza Rice, criticized his plans. Carter said he had not heard the objections directly, although a State Department spokesman said earlier that a senior official from the department had called the former president.

The State Department says it advised Carter twice against meeting representatives of Hamas, which Washington lists as a terrorist organization.

“I find it hard to understand what is going to be gained by having discussions with Hamas about peace when Hamas is, in fact, the impediment to peace,” Rice said Friday, after reports of the planned meeting surfaced.

This statement by the Iran Foreign Minister is dumb and delusional. Why in the world would Israel use nukes against a rag tag army that was not a strategic  threat to Israel? If Israel takes out Iran’s nuclear facilities and Iran and Syria take military action against Israel it is a whole different ball game.

One has to wonder why Iran is again spouting this rhetoric each day. They either must believe what they say - that would make them delusional, or else they think they can scare Israel off by their belligerent words. But all their words against Israel’s right to exist just makes an attack on their nuclear facilities more likely.

Iran: Israel too weak to confront us

Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki says Jewish state’s ballistic missile capability won’t help it in confrontations with Islamic republic; meanwhile, Iranian-Egyptian rapprochement in the works
Dudi Cohen

“Israel is too weak to confront Iran. The leaders of this illegitimate fake regime know well would happen in the region in response to an attack (against us),” Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Monday in response to a successful Israeli ballistic missile test.

In a press conference in Tehran, Mottaki said that “If Israel’s nuclear missile warheads could have helped, she would have won the (Second) Lebanon War.”

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FrontPage Magazine: “While Petrodollars Propaganda showers networks in the Middle East, Europe and North America to weaken democracies’ resolve to confront the Iranian and Syrian regimes and as ‘lobbies’ in the West accelerate the campaign to break the isolation of Damascus and Tehran, these two regimes turned against their opposition in several attempts to crush them as long as the ‘window of opportunity is open’ according to insiders. The Khamenei and Assad regimes, witnessing the Baker-Hamilton report causing confusion throughout the West and taking advantage of the findings of the NIE rushed to clump down on what they consider the real dangers emerging from the inside their countries. Interestingly, and while the Iranian propaganda machine uses efficiently the Oil generated revenues to place favorable stories in the international media and impact think tanks around the world, Syrian Mukhabarat and Pasdaran operated swiftly over the past few days to shut down dissident groups and youth activities deemed ‘dangerous’ -read too close to provoke political changes”

As expected the perceived weakness because of the Baker-Hamilton report and the NIE report has lead Iran and Syria to crush their opposition. I am sure all resistance groups would like to personally thank those in Washington who stabbed them in the back.

Israelis hit Syrian ‘nuclear bomb plant’ - Times Online: “ISRAEL’S top-secret air raid on Syria in September destroyed a bomb factory assembling warheads fuelled by North Korean plutonium, a leading Israeli nuclear expert has told The Sunday Times. Professor Uzi Even of Tel Aviv University was one of the founders of the Israeli nuclear reactor at Dimona, the source of the Jewish state’s undeclared nuclear arsenal. “I suspect that it was a plant for processing plutonium, namely, a factory for assembling the bomb,” he said. “I think the DPRK [Democratic People’s Republic of Korea] transferred to Syria weapons-grade plutonium in raw form, that is nuggets of easily transported metal in protective cans. I think the shaping and casting of the plutonium was supposed to be in Syria.”

So how do we know there won’t be more, or that Iran was not also given plutonium by the North Koreans. I don’t think anyone can say that Iran does not have nukes with a large degree of confidence. They could have even got nukes after the Soviet Union collapse.

American Thinker Blog: Do They Or Don’t They? The NIE and Iran’s Nuclear Program (extensively updated): “Clarice Feldman notes Michael Ledeen, who’s been a close watcher of the mullahs, who reviews the NIE report;s conclusions on Iran’s nuclear program and concludes: We went from zero to bomb in four years leading up to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, at a time when nobody even knew if the thing was doable. On the IC’s account, the Iranians have been at this since ‘at least the late 1980’s.’ (I actually think it didn’t get into gear until 1991, but let’s not quibble.) During that time, almost everything was for sale (and Iran has lots of money), A.Q. Khan was running his bazaar, Soviet nuclear physicists were hired by Tehran, and the Iranians themselves are very smart. Is it likely, that Iran hasn’t been able to build nukes in two decades? No way. If this NIE is true, the evidence would have to be awfully good. And evidence of that quality has been in famously short supply. These are the same guys who have been telling us for years that Sunnis and Shiites can’t work together, when they should have known that Iranian Revolutionary Guards (Shiites) were trained in the early 1970s by Yasser Arafat’s al Fatah (Sunnis). Color me an unbeliever.”

I think they already have nukes but they are stalling for back ups and for more missile development. Does anyone think that they would have let Saddam develop nukes and not match his nuclear program? Even Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia have the know how. Now Iran is putting on this international show for the world and probably laughing themselves silly while they develop a first strike missile capability to use against our fleet and our bases. Even if there were only a small chance that this was true why should we risk it? Iran is not developing very expensive missiles with 1200 mile ranges and beyond to put fire crackers on them. It don’t take a $100 billion intelligence organization to figure that out.

ANALYSIS: Iran laughing at U.S. lack of nuclear intelligence - Haaretz - Israel News
The noise that was heard last night in Tehran, according to credible reports, was a hearty Persian laugh after looking at the U.S. intelligence service’s website. The unclassified document that Director of National Intelligence, Adm. Mike McConnell published, titled “Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities,” as a laundered version that faithfully represents the greatest secrets collected by the CIA and the other U.S. intelligence services, can appropriately be called “much evaluation on no intelligence.”

“Behind the heap of words, presented as “a low or medium level of certainty,” the differences between the worst-case and the best-case views on when Iran will be capable of producing a nuclear weapon are not that great. These range from somewhere between 2009 and the following five years, starting in 2010. Even McConnell’s intelligence officers agree that Iran can buy nukes off the shelf - from Syria, North Korea and maybe Pakistan - and that the renewal of the program, if it is indeed on a coffee break, depends only on the intentions of the rulers, and those intentions will change only when the rulers are replaced. The CIA is so angry with Bush, it seems, that it is ready to go to great lengths in order to help another president.

Iran is right, we do not have a clue. Why publish a report so the Leftist media can make a big deal about how long it will really be before Iran can go nuclear when the report itself says it only has a low or medium level of certainty? Even Israel says the report is wrong.

This was obviously designed to play into the democrats and embarrass the President. The intelligence heads play it safe and take themselves off the hook if Bush should order a strike on Iran. If Bush is right then they can just tell the new administration that the report had a low degree of certainty. If things go wrong after a Bush strike they can tell the new administration that they told Bush there was no reason to launch an attack. It is a win win situation for them but the “intelligence” report totally fails the country. If the combined intelligence of 16 intelligence agencies is nothing more than a guess what good are they? I am not impressed and neither is Iran.

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.: Under present and foreseeable circumstances, the best that can be hoped for from such a meeting is failure. For success will result in a new safe-haven for terror that is a mortal threat not only for Israel, but for the United States, as well.
Unfortunately, even the failure of Condi’s Folly at Annapolis is likely to be a very bad outcome. To the extent that her actions are raising unwarranted expectations on the part of Palestinians and their Arab friends, past practice suggests it will translate into a pretext for new violence against Israel.

“The only Palestinian state that can possibly come from Condoleezza Rice’s zealotry is one that will be a dagger pointed at the heart of Israel and a new safe-haven for terror aimed at the United States and other Western nations. Even if a corrupt and politically unrepresentative Olmert government in Israel is prepared to play along, Americans who understand the stakes for the Jewish State as well as our own, must reject her desperate and unacceptable bid to launch a Palestinian one at Annapolis. “

The only good thing likely to come out of Annapolis is that the failure will lead to another war where Israel will be forced to take out WMD development in Iran and Syria.

Caroline B. Glick: How can Washington and Jerusalem be so irresponsible?: “AND SO we return to Iran’s nuclear bomb program, which like the Syrian and Iraqi programs, is partially hidden from view, but which the pro-Iranian IAEA claims is years away from completion. And we return to the US and Israel acting as though it is possible to live with a nuclear-armed Iran. We look at all of this, and we ask: How can Washington and Jerusalem be so irresponsible? We look at Olmert’s reported willingness to countenance a nuclear-armed Iran, and we wonder, how can he try to wish away an impending threat of nuclear annihilation? “

The only answer is that these are delusional people or they are leaders who have been thoroughly cowered into appeasement. They will do anything to secure a temporary facade of peace while they allow the future of the world to become endangered. If they take no action now, nuclear warfare in the Middle East is assured in the future.

Caroline B. Glick: The results of brilliant theories: “Given North Koreans’ abysmal track record it is far from clear why Hill thinks they can be trusted now. But beyond that, it isn’t even clear that dismantling or disabling Yangbyon today will make much difference. As former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton wrote in August, Yanbyon ceased to be the central component of North Korea’s nuclear weapons program several years ago. In recent years Pyongyang scattered its nuclear program to secret sites both inside and outside the country. And those sites are overlooked in Hill’s agreement. This again this returns us to his statement on Wednesday. How can the State Department’s point man on North Korea claim that the US has no ‘political issues’ with North Korea less than two months after Israel reportedly destroyed a North Korean nuclear installation in Syria modeled after the Yongbyon complex?

Given North Korea’s apparent nuclear collaboration with Syria and its well-documented nuclear collaboration with Iran, to claim that the US has no political issues to discuss with North Korea is to suspend disbelief. So Rice’s State Department insists on moving forward towards implementing an agreement predicated on a denial of reality. Perhaps worst of all, it is an agreement which leaves Japan, America’s most important Asian ally and North Korea’s most vulnerable target high and dry. “

This article points out some of the delusion that has been coming out of our State Department. I have to admit that most of the foreign policy “experts” have a very unique world view. They do not see the world as it exists. They see a delusional world of what should be, because apparently in their world everyone is trustworthy and no one is evil. The State Department has been operating under the delusions of silly old women, or men who act like women for quite a while now.

Syria-North Korea Nuclear Nexus - HUMAN EVENTS: “North Korea may be shuttering its reactors, but based on history it will rattle the neutrons again once the economic benefits associated with cooperation dry up. More likely, Pyongyang is continuing its atomic program through proxies such as Syria. John Bolton, who also served as the US ambassador to the UN, said that North Korea may be using Syria and Iran as “safe havens” for its nuclear activity. In fact, Bolton said President Bush warned Pyongyang last year against transferring nuclear material to Syria.”

Israel’s raid must have been important enough to risk war. Likely, only a target that posed a serious threat for the Jewish state would have justified the attack and the deafening silence across the region and in Washington suggest that no state has anything to gain by publicizing the facts.Unless the US, Israeli and Syrian governments announce a contrary set of facts regarding the September attack, the evidence points to one conclusion: North Korea was supplying Syria with a nuclear reactor that could produce plutonium for a future Arab bomb.

I would think that with North Korea’s record we would not be stupid. From what I read we did not even know about the Syrian reactor until Israel presented us with the evidence. Bush has make one foreign policy blunder after another so I guess the Korean farce is just par for the course.

Now we know why all the bluster from Syria about taking back the Golan heights with the threat of war this summer. Syria was creating a diversion. Ever since Israel took out their nuclear facility they have been as quiet as a mouse. My Demented Delusional or Dumb Club of the week award goes to our State Department for how they handle US foreign policy. Congradulations!

FrontPage Magazine: “Well I am that “snake” – a “real snake” to boot! And the former senator is James Abourezk who used to represent the great state of South Dakota. He used this ad hominem in an interview on you guessed it, Hizbullah television. He gave the interview while visiting his favorite democracy, Syria, on August 30, 2007. The “snake” part of it was probably his most moderate statement. Former Senator Abourezk then went on to blame what he calls this “immense wave of anti-Arab, anti-Muslim sentiment” “

American Thinker Blog: Intense alarm about NoKo nuke materials in Syria: “Caroline Glick points out alarming implications of the September 6 Israeli raid on a claimed North Korean nuclear materials site in Syria. If official leaks about the IAF raid are true, the North Koreans have again reneged on their solemn promises to the Six-Nation Group to retreat on their own nuke program. Instead, they have secretly shipped nuclear weapons materials, possibly off-the-shelf fissile uranium or plutonium, to Syria, in close collaboration with Iran. “

I don’t know why we continually think that we can negotiate with insane people. The North Koreans just use our gullibility to their advantage.

FrontPage Magazine: “As Democrats in Congress and the organized left denounce the cautious optimism of Ambassador Ryan Crocker and General David Petraeus (“General Betray Us,” according to moveon.org), some Members continue to consort with the enemy in ways reminiscent of Hanoi Jane Fonda in the early 1970s. Dennis Kucinich is the latest among the Congressional Democrats to travel the road to Damascus, to give aid and comfort to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. In an interview with a tarted-up reporter for Syrian state television, Kucinich laid out his plan for unilateral U.S. surrender in Iraq, the Middle East, and indeed just about anywhere America might seek to get engaged under its own flag in the world.”

Kucinich is not the only member of Congress who wants to cozy up to America’s enemies.
Tehran Tom – excuse me, the chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, California Democrat Tom Lantos – has said repeatedly that he wants to travel to Tehran to negotiate some kind of peace-in-our-time with Iran’s clerical dictators.
Lantos first bruited his desire to travel to Tehran in January 1998, but was quickly rebuffed by the Islamic Republic of Iran authorities.
After his much-disputed April 2007 trip to Damascus with House speaker Nancy Pelosi, Lantos said he was ready to escort the gentle-lady from California to Tehran:”

They are little men who have delusions of grander. Kucinich thinks he can be elected President which totally proves my point. They obviously see themselves in the role of a savior. They go to our enemies offering peace and claim to speak for Americans who really think they are loons.

Battleground Europe - Los Angeles Times: “Beside the hard core of fanatics is a penumbra of people who couldchoose the wrong path. In Germany, they are called the sympathisanten — the sympathizers. Among European Muslims, they might very roughly be correlated with those who, in surveys, refuse to condemn suicide bombings. One analyst estimates that while the hard core may make up 1% of British Muslims, the sympathisanten make up perhaps 10% of German Muslims.

If you look at the biographies of the jihadist assassins over the last six years, from the 9/11 bomber Mohamed Atta, radicalized in Hamburg, to Mohammed Bouyeri, murderer of Theo van Gogh, you find again and again the same story: young men who were first attracted to a modern, Western way of life, quite different from that of their parents, but who then angrily rejected it in favor of a violent, extremist version of political Islam. Fortunately, there are also people who travel the other way. So much now depends on whether the 10% veer toward the barbaric 1% or rejoin the civilized majority. “

I do not claim to know about the view of Muslims in Germany but I would say the sympathizers are more then ten percent in many nations and rising. The author seem unrealistically optimistic. The reality is that unless Europe gets its head out of the sand and deals with the radical fascists and the Islamic social issues things will only get worse.

Europe must truly join in on the war against Islamic terrorism around the world. That means really supporting the US military efforts against terrorist around the world. It also means seeing the Palestinian, Iranian and the Syrian governments for what they really are.

In addition you must truly deal with your immigration problem and integrate Muslims living in your nations into your culture. That will mean taking certain integration actions and eduction programs that certain Muslims are not going to like.

If you do not do these things you will soon have Muslims nations within your nations that will become increasingly radicalized and bring great civil strife to Europe.

FrontPage Magazine: “It is not clear in retrospect how much Israel would have achieved militarily against Hezbollah if the United Nations had not put a stop to the fighting with this resolution. Elements in the Israeli government itself, particularly Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, favored the UN-enforced ceasefire and thought Resolution 1701 held great promise for Israel. But what is clear—and was clear to some commentators from the start (for example, here and here)—is that Israel should never have entrusted its security, or the stabilization of the situation, to the Lebanese army or the United Nations, two actors by no means clearly aligned with civilization against the jihad and certainly something less than loyal friends of Israel.

Something would have been gained if it could be assumed that certain elements in Israel would finally learn from this fiasco not to place Israel’s security in the hands of foreign forces, but that is hardly the case. As for the prices to be paid, they are entailed by the further encouragement and strengthening of the Iran-Syria-Hezbollah-Hamas axis and go well beyond Israel itself. “

Israel’s leadership is delusional.

FrontPage Magazine: “
amid its leaders’ inane, sunny talk of peace and horizons, Israel faces a reality of a drastically deteriorated security environment with terrorist and Syrian forces gaining power and confidence by the day, and surely part of the answer is that the Palestinianist virus has migrated southward from Europe and infected part of Israel’s populace and particularly its leaders. Olmert and Livni appear to be near-terminal cases who could still be woken up only by something very terrible

The Case for a Shah of Iraq - Bruce Walker - Aug 18, 07: “The reality is that a Shah of Iraq would be at least as legitimate as President Assad or President Mubarak, the rulers for life of Syria and Egypt, (and in the case of Assad, the heir to the throne of the Presidency of Syria) and much more legitimate that Kim Jong Il, who inherited his throne as “Dear Leader” of North Korea. “

I agree and wrote about it before. They need a strongman. They are not civilized enough for democratic rule.

FrontPage Magazine: “Indeed, although Ban Ki-Moon reported on June 29th that Iran and Syria were transferring arms to Hezbollah “on a scale [which] would allow it to reach a level of armament equal to that of last year or beyond,” LIBAT was unable to document a single seizure during its three-week visit. On July 22nd, the IDF confirmed that Hezbollah had restored its pre-war military capabilities, including long-range missiles. The UN Security Council is scheduled to meet this week to discuss the renewal of UNIFIL’s mandate, which expires at the end of the month. But having given Hezbollah a year to overcome the consequences of last summer’s defeat, there is now nothing the UN can do prevent a Third Lebanon War.”

Did any truly sane person think anything differently would happen with UNIFIL in Lebanon? The leaders of Israel never get it.