Analysis: Obama lets NKorea's Kim save face, page 1
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Topic started on 6-8-2009 @ 10:34 AM by sos37
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration let North Korean leader Kim Jong Il save face by releasing two jailed Americans to former President Bill Clinton. The payoff — maybe not right away — is likely to be renewed dialogue with Pyongyang about its nuclear weapons program.


What does this tell you? That Clinton and "diplomacy" had nothing to do with the release of those two women. In fact, this story gets even better. It says that Clinton only agreed to go to N. Korea if he could come out looking like a hero.

Bill Clinton undertook the mission, a senior administration official said, only after the North assured the White House that the reporters would be freed and allowed to return home with the former president.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to detail the back-channel negotiations, also said the north rejected Gore as a suitable emissary. The journalists' families, Gore and the White House then turned to Clinton. The official said President Barack Obama did not speak with Clinton about the mission


Even more damning evidence against Clinton:

Daniel Sneider, associate director of research at Stanford University's Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, said the journalists' release followed weeks of quiet negotiations between the State Department and the North Korean mission to the United Nations.

Clinton "didn't go to negotiate this, he went to reap the fruits of the negotiation," Sneider said.


The cost to us? The U.S. has repeatedly rejected North Korea's demand for bilateral talks on nuclear arms, saying we would only deal with them through the six-party talks. Now it looks like we will talk with them one on one. Kim Jong Il gets his way.

And you've also got to ask - why is the White House being so up front with this information making sure that Clinton doesn't get the credit? To me it smells of a internal power struggle going on. I'll say it again - watch for Hilary to try and take the nomination away from B.O. come 2012.

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reply posted on 6-8-2009 @ 10:50 AM by sos37
reply to post by Mak Manto


You really think Clinton himself had a hand in this? The story itself even says - "the journalists' release followed weeks of quiet negotiations between the State Department and the North Korean mission to the United Nations" which is much more believable than a former president saying "please release them".


reply posted on 6-8-2009 @ 11:46 AM by absconditussapientia
Boo-Hoo

Bush, Clinton/Billary, and Gore work for the same person Obama does.

When will people understand that. They are just puppets.

Nice speech that someone else typed up for her to present.

Here's the URL
www.youtube.com...

What exactly does the "Dow Company" have to do with this?
Here's how negotiations went down?

"You guys want a piece of this or get the sh%$ kicked out of you??
Thought you would see it our way"

Someone please answer me why this NK Napoleon is willing to release 2 American hostages but can seem to get the world destruction nuclear testing monkey off his back??


reply posted on 6-8-2009 @ 01:41 PM by Zenic
reply to post by sos37


I'm sure...

The fact still remains that our country did this peacefully.

That's a step up from the last 8 years.
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