North and South Korea are at it again

[Freiwillige]

Really I'm not really a Palin supporter but if the best thing you have against her is confusing north and south (In word only) as she has clearly stated before that north Korea is the enemy so she grasps that concept just fine. Then you have not much. In fact many presidents have slipped up in a press conferance or a speech.

It was a freudian slip.

As for the Korean issue I read that the real reason the South doesn't want to push the north is fear of the unstable regime collapsing and China walking in again and taking over. North Korea fails to exist and South Korea becomes China's neighbor. Is this a realistic view?

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Freiwillige

Really I'm not really a Palin supporter but if the best thing you have against her is confusing north and south (In word only) as she has clearly stated before that north Korea is the enemy so she grasps that concept just fine. Then you have not much. In fact many presidents have slipped up in a press conferance or a speech.

I agree. Bush's "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." springs to mind.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Dowly

I agree. Bush's "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." springs to mind.

I actually liked the guy and always knew he meant well despite some classic speech gaffs

A few more:

They misunderestimated me.
- US President George W. Bush (November 6, 2000 in Bentonville, Arkansas)
You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.
- US President George W. Bush (2000?)
Reading is the basics for all learning.
- US President George W. Bush (Discussing his “Reading First” plan in Reston, Virginia, March 28, 2000)
Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?
- US President George W. Bush (January 11, 2000)
My views are one that speaks to freedom.
- US President George W. Bush (in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 29, 2004)
And it’s a struggle between good and it’s a struggle between evil.
- US President George W. Bush in a speech (on terrorism) to the Cattle Industry Annual Convention and Trade Show at the Denver Convention Center (February 8, 2002)
We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.
- US President George W. Bush (2000 in Des Moines, Iowa)
Our nation must come together to unite.
- US President George W. Bush (June 4, 2001)
Bush stumbling during his debate with Al Gore when he looked dead pan at the camera and said with complete sincerity that the US could not elect a man who sends “mexed missages’.”
If you choose to do so, when Iraq is liberated, you will be treated, tried and persecuted as a war criminal.
- US President George W. Bush (In St. Louis on January 22, 2003, he likely meant ‘prosecuted.’ Just for the record Bill O’reilly made the same mistake on his TV show The O’reilly Factor in August 2004)
Will the highways on the Internet become more few?
- US President George W. Bush (Concord, New Hampshire, January 29, 2000)
If you don’t stand for anything, you don’t stand for anything!
- US President George W. Bush (November 2, 2000 at Bellevue Community College)
I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.
- US President George W. Bush (September 29, 2000 in Saginaw, Michigan)
I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family
- US President George W. Bush (January 27, 2000 in New Hampshire)
This very week in 1989, there were protests in East Berlin and in Leipzig. By the end of that year, every communist dictatorship in Central America had collapsed.
- US President George W. Bush (November 6, 2003 in Washington, D.C.)
Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.
- US President George W. Bush (October 2000)
I think we agree, the past is over.
- US President George W. Bush (May 10, 2000)

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

I actually liked the guy...

Easy to say when he wasn't El Presidente del Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte.

Next you'll be saying Bliar didn't lie!

[Kaye T. Bai]

But- Antonio Blair of TUKOGBANI...

Why don't I believe this? With the great apoligizer in office, why would any nation, much less one as irresponsible as N. Korea believe this, much less feel threatened by it?


U.S. Air Force 'Ready to Strike' if Korean Tensions Escalate

The U.S. Air Force is ready to respond immediately if hostilities between the two Koreas escalate, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz said Wednesday. Schwartz told reporters after North Korea's attack on Yeonpyeong Island, "The bottom line is that U.S. Forces Korea certainly is monitoring the situation carefully."

He mentioned Osan and Gunsan in South Korea, Kaneda in Okinawa, Japan, and other U.S. Air Force bases in the Pacific to emphasize that the U.S. has plenty of firepower in the region. Schwartz added USFK Commander Gen. Walter Sharp "has operational control of Air Force assets that reside on the peninsula and can be augmented if required."

On the issue of a possible return of tactical nuclear weapons to South Korea, Schwartz said the issue has not been discussed by the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, but added he would advise Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen to the best of his ability. "The bottom line is, we have substantial capability on the peninsula and in the immediate environments to sustain a very credible deterrent posture," he said.

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/...112600897.html

[TLAM Strike]

ROKMC Commander vows revenge:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101127/...s_korea_north1

Protests in Seoul:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapc...ss_igoogle_cnn