This is more of the “Do as I tell you to do, not as I do” hypocrisy from the Bush-Cheney war regime which it tries to pass of as diplomacy. Nobody except homo stupidus devolved knuckledragging idiots believe anything that the Neanderthal-in-Chief George W. Bush has to say. This man has the reverse midas touch. Everything he touches turns to shit. Anything that Bush says he is trying to accomplish ends up accomplishing the opposite. No one in history has been as counter-productive to his stated goals as this living anachronism of a warrior whose age has passed. I think that J.Z. Knight was really channeling George W. Bush when she thought we was channeling a 2000 year old ancient warrior spirit she calls Ramtha.
Before posting the news story below on the Bush regime’s “warning” to North Korea about a pending missile test – lets look at a recent U.S. missile test:
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Missile Streaks Through Northern California Sky
Jun 14, 2006 7:33 am US/Pacific
Missile Streaks Through Northern California Sky
(AP) VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE The Air Force has successfully tested an unarmed Minuteman Three intercontinental ballistic missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
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The contrails from the missile could be seen streaking through the Northern California sky.
It traveled 48-hundred miles in about 30 minutes before its three warheads struck targets at the Kwajalein Missile Range in the western chain of the Marshall Islands.
The purpose of the launch was to test the weapon’s effectiveness.
US warns North Korea against missile “provocation”
US warns North Korea against missile “provocation”
By Carol Giacomo, Diplomatic Correspondent
Fri Jun 16, 4:39 PM ETThe United States on Friday warned North Korea against conducting a “provocative” intercontinental missile test after U.S. officials said there were signs a test could take place as early as this weekend.
A test would be Pyongyang’s first launch of a long-range missile since it stunned the world in August 1998 by firing a Taepodong 1 over Japan that landed in the Pacific Ocean.
“Such a launch would be a provocative act and we would instead urge them to focus their energies and their activities on returning to the six-party talks,” State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters. He was referring to talks on curbing Pyongyang’s nuclear program involving the United States, China, Russia, North and South Korea and Japan.
The launch — expected to involve a Taepodong 2 missile with an estimated range of 3,500 to 4,300 km — could come as early as this weekend, U.S. officials said.
They said it seemed increasingly likely Pyongyang would go through with the test — rather than just making preparations to get U.S. and international attention — but that it could still decide to cancel a launch.
U.S. officials have told Reuters they would not try to shoot down a test missile although McCormack told a news briefing “we will take necessary preparatory steps to track any potential activities and to protect ourselves.”
American and Japanese “assets” — including satellites and a U.S. guided missile ship — have been moved into position to serve as long-range surveillance and tracking platforms.
The United States and its allies were caught off guard when Pyongyang last tested eight years ago and they are determined this time to be ready to gather critical intelligence on the North’s capabilities.
McCormack said that in recent days Washington consulted key countries in a campaign to make clear to North Korea that “a missile launch would be a provocative act that is not in their interests and will further isolate them from the world.”
A missile launch would be inconsistent with the 1999 moratorium declared by North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, which he reaffirmed in 2002, and with a Sept 19, 2005 statement in which Pyongyang and other parties to the six-country talks pledged to stabilize the Korean peninsula, he added.
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Some U.S. analysts believe North Korea, feeling ignored, would test to assert its importance or its pique over President George W. Bush’s willingness to show flexibility to Iran even as he has held a tough line on Pyongyang. …
