Saturday - January 28, 2006

Told Ya So ….

Our second goal is to prevent regimes that sponsor terror from threatening America or our friends and allies with weapons of mass destruction.  Some of these regimes have been pretty quiet since September the 11th.  But we know their true nature.  North Korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its citizens. Iran aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror, while an unelected few repress the Iranian people’s hope for freedom.

Iraq continues to flaunt its hostility toward America and to support terror.  The Iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax, and nerve gas, and nuclear weapons for over a decade.  This is a regime that has already used poison gas to murder thousands of its own citizens—leaving the bodies of mothers huddled over their dead children.  This is a regime that agreed to international inspections—then kicked out the inspectors. This is a regime that has something to hide from the civilized world.

States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world.  By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger.  They could provide these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred.  They could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States.  In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic.

-- President George W. Bush, State Of The Union Address, January 29, 2002

Iran Warns US, Britain Of Reprisals
Jan. 28, 2006 12:59
TEHRAN, Iran (AP)

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards chief Saturday warned the United States and Britain that Iran would respond with its missiles if attacked, a clear threat to Israel, which lies within easy range of such a launch.

“The world knows Iran has a ballistic missile power with a range of 2,000 kilometers (1,300 miles),” Gen. Yahya Rahim Safavi said on state-run television. “We are producing these missiles and don’t need foreign technology for that,” he said. Iran announced last year that it had fully developed solid fuel technology for missiles, a major breakthrough that increases their accuracy.

Iran’s improved version of Shihab-3 missile can strike more than 2,000 kilometers (1,300 miles) from their launch site, putting Israel and US forces in the Middle East in easy range.

North Korea Warns of Nuclear War
January 28, 2006, 11:06 AM EST
SEOUL, South Korea (AP)

North Korea warned of nuclear war Saturday and vowed to strengthen its deterrent forces as it demanded that Washington show evidence backing its allegation that the communist regime is counterfeiting U.S. money. “Dark clouds of a nuclear war are hanging low over the Korean Peninsula,” the North’s official Rodong Sinmun newspaper said in a commentary carried by state-run Korean Central News Agency.

“The ever-more frantic moves of the U.S. to ignite a new war against (North Korea) would only compel it ... to bolster its deterrent for self-defense in every way.” The North repeatedly has accused the United States of planning to attack. Washington has denied any such intention. The North’s comments Saturday follow a South Korea-U.S. agreement this month giving American troops more flexibility in the South.

The North said the pact was aimed at preparing for war. Also Saturday, the North dismissed U.S. accusations of counterfeiting and other illicit activities like drug trafficking. “The nature and mission of (North Korea) do not allow such things as bad treatment of the people, counterfeiting and drug trafficking to happen in it,” KCNA said.

A pro-North Korean newspaper in Japan also urged Washington to prove its allegation that North Korea is counterfeiting U.S. currency. “If there is suspicion and clear evidence as claimed by the United States, (the U.S.) can present it and prove (it),” the Choson Sinbo newspaper said. The United States “continues to leak plausible information but the reality is that there is nothing to confirm the fact objectively,” it said.

The newspaper sometimes acts as an unofficial mouthpiece for the reclusive, communist North. North Korea has recently stepped up criticism of the United States for imposing sanctions over its alleged illicit activities.

Posted by The Skipper     on 01/28/2006 at 11:45 AM   
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