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GOP Has Amnesia Again – North Korea Said Same things During Bush Years

This week’s actions by North Korea, setting off nuclear tests and missiles have many in the media talking how President Obama is being tested.  Many are already calling Obama’s ‘talking down North Korea’s threats’ as being a sign of weakness.

I think maybe it’s time to remind folks what North Korea did during President George W. Bush’s eight years in office.

When President Bush declared that Iraq, Iran and North Korea were the “axis of evil”,

a North Korean foreign ministry spokesman described Mr Bush’s State of the Union address as “little short of a declaration of war“.

In a statement from the foreign ministry, Pyongyang said Washington’s recent problems were “entirely attributable to the unilateral and self-opinionated foreign policy, political immaturity and moral leprosy of the Bush administration”.

The US Central Intelligence Agency has released a report saying that North Korea sold numerous missiles to the Middle East and other areas of tension last year (2001 a Bush year).

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In February of 2003, North Korea threatened to abandon the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean war, accusing the United States of plotting a pre-emptive attack on the communist state.

North Korea’s rhetoric has been escalating since the crisis flared up late last year, and warnings of an impending US attack are broadcast almost daily in Pyongyang’s official media. It was not clear whether last night’s statement broke that pattern or represented more of the same.

North Korea conducted their first nuclear test in 2006 - during the Bush so-called “get tough” years.

My point is —- Bush was TESTED too and got the same words used against him as Obama is currently getting.  Bush finally gave in and ‘bribed’ North Korea into shutting down their nukes in 2007.  The only reason Bush gave in was, the 2008 election was coming up and he didn’t want the NK issue to be used against the GOP.

So the next time you hear a Republican or right winger accuse Obama of being WEAK or not tough enough – remind them of the Bush ‘get tough’ years and how that worked — NOT!