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From: Lisa Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> As you know, he's listed an "evil axis" as including Iran, Iraq, and North Korea. The situation with Iran and Iraq deserve their own separate posts. As for North Korea, on Wednesday State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said that the U.S. had for many years been "quite nicely and diplomatically" offering invitations to meet with North Korean officials, but those overtures were ultimately rejected. Has Mr. Boucher forgotten so quickly that under President Clinton, in his last months in office, relations with North Korea had reached a high point, so encouraging that then Secretary of State Madeleine Albright visited Pyongyang. The visit was significant in that Albright was the highest level U.S. official to travel to North Korea. Her visit was right on the heels of the landmark Pyongyang summit between the North and South Korean leaders (Kim Dae-jung and Kim Jong Il). We had reason to hope for a final peace deal between the two countries. All part of the peace and prosperity we enjoyed for eight years. Then, along came Bush, swaggering his way into the White House with his braggadacio talk of reverting to tougher lines with North Korea, and lo, North Korea broke off official contacts with not only Washington but Seoul as well. THAT's what happened to President Clinton's successes on the Korean peninsula. This man thinks war is all a game. He regards our young men as little tin soldiers he can play with. Ever play the boardgame "Risk"? I play it with my little boy sometimes, and I can wipe out an entire country with a roll of the dice and feel nothing but glee. I freeze to think that this man is in search of THAT kind of adrenal skyrocket. If we ever manage to get really united and begin exposing the lies of the past year, let's be sure to include this one. Any man of his instability, with such a love of playing war, is inevitably going to be drawn into an obsessive curiosity about dropping a nuclear (nuke-you-lar) bomb. God! How DID it happen? Lisa "We who have a voice must speak for the voiceless." -- Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, murdered by terrorists trained by the United States at the School of the Americas. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right." -- Carl Shurz ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
