US Can’t Stop North Korean Launch, Gates Says

Gates is right. If we stop it then North Korea can ask the UN to shut down our missile programs, and Iran can ask the UN to shut down all our nuclear research and take our nukes. After all we are the largest seller of weapons in the world not North Korea.

Not taking any steps to stop it is absolutely the right way to go. China gave North Korea the technology because it wanted a “rogue” state to use it to attack America, and because any moves America made to stop it, would distract the US away from China, and reveal important intelligence about the US’s capabilities. The less overt action the US takes, the more the rest of Asia, China included, will be forced to recognize that they’re creating a monster right on their own doorstep, and that if North Korea stops seeing the US as a threat, it might well start seeing other countries immediately around it as one. Russia will also start seeing that threat, as the US moves to diffuse tensions with Iran, and militant Islamic fury turns towards revenge over Russian atrocities in Chechnya.

Why not just cut all ties with North Korea and give no more aid, fertilizer, medical aid, nadda, zip, nothing. Then lets see how well that idiot can do.

Well since we have moved all of the money from the defense budget to social programs, maybe we can defend ourselves using illegal aliens and Nancy can organize them!

I am sick and tired of listening to people bad mouth the USA. We are the world’s caretaker and yes we are better than the rest. Wake up people, especially Gregg…..North Korea is a very dangerous country and the world would be a better place if it was totally destroyed. Nuke em all…let God sort em out!

Can anybody remember 5 o’clock Charlie? N. Korea is a joke, their stupid missle probably won’t even fly. We should dump an LSD bomb on that country. It would certainly bring an interesting change.

I cannot believe that the people of the USA are going to fall for the same old story about “the bogey man” and his power to “launch missiles at everyone”!!
Does anyone remember Saddam Hussein and his “capabilities”. Billions spent and never a shred of evidence that he ever planned to “launch missiles at everyone”.
The USA are played by an insignificant leader of a desperate country, in an attempt to get “respect” – and he succeeds!!
Stay in your own country USA. You have a bigger problem to sort;)
Paranoia!

Well since we have moved all of the money from the defense budget to social programs, maybe we can defend ourselves using illegal aliens and Nancy can organize them!

who is the united states too tell another country what they can and can not do. Remeber the only atom bomb used on human,s was dropped by the USA.

Hey frenchreader; Because your country is totally pussified and comes running to others for help, your opinion is irelevant.

Embargo them to HE!!

Every effort should be made by the world’s major powers, working through the U.N., to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Diplomacy and economic incentives should be used to the greatest extent possible with military action reserved for the choice of last resort. In the global economy, the interest of the major world powers are inextricably tied together, and they all have an overwhelming interest to prevent rogue nations from acquiring nuclear weapons. Once this is clearly recognized by the major world powers, we may begin to make accelerating progress toward nuclear non-proliferation.

I say, let us send all our criminals (deadbeat dads, sexual deviants, Wall Street Thieves, AIG cheats, etc…) on covert missions to Nore Korea. Anyone who can castrate that idiot dwarf/midget gets a full reprieve for all past crimes.

It should be clear and obvious North Korea’s President Kim Jong is living up to his last name “Ill”. There is sufficient weaponry in the U.S. arsenal to make the North Koreans glow bright green for a thousand years. We have enough other pressing issues to deal with rather than the childish pranks of a lunatic. Offer the man “valium”.

TruthnMichigan – World’s caretaker. Much of the world wishes we wouldn’t take care of them so much. By the way we are broke. I figured you folks in Michigan would know that first hand.

I think that it will be under Mr. Obama’s watch that both North Korea and Iran develop nuclear weapons that speeches and words cannot stop.

There is a huge difference between can’t and won’t…so what Gates should have said was won’t

You want to stop other countries from stock piling Nukes? Stop stock piling them as well. Natural instinct is for self defense.

The relationship between N. Korea and Obama’s admin. is getting more worst than Bush’s one. Obama had heavily criticize Bush’s policy for Iran and N.Korea during the campaign in 2008. Even Obama said that “I’ll meet unconditionally leader of Iranian and N.Korea and I clean Bush’s brain at White House.” He was so naive and arrogant. Now,Obama should realize that Kim, Jung Il can delude the world with a deluge of his paranoiac and hallucinatory behaviors. It can anytime browbeats S.Korea and America, too. A lots of experiences and elaborate strategies of foreign policies are needed to handle with N.Korea and Iran.

Wow I feel real safe- “We might consider shooting it down if it is aimed towards Hawaii. ” MIGHT ??? Arent you the DEFENSE SEcretary ?? Gates – Another defective product on the Obama assemblyline. These people are dangerous and they will weaken us in evry sense of the word. But Obama needs to go on another vacation this time its Europe. Too bad he wasnt going to Hawaii.

I thought we were planning on shooting the missile down? What happened to that?

morningcalm – you have a good idea about sending the Wall Street and AIG theives – the only problem is we would have to send most of congress and most of the administration since they voted for and signed the legislation to allow the AIG bonues.Right?

Well, I’m sure hillary and her fluffy fist had a profound affect on N.K.’s decisions.

Calm down folks. Gates has no intention of announcing our full contingencies. If need be, the missle will be intercepted and destroyed, just like the one in 2006. Or did you think that just blew up all by itself?

Having a missile is one thing. Having the long range capabilities to launch and hit a target in the continental US is another. They may get the missile. They are light years away from long range capabilities. Why does everyone seem to assume that the very first place NK would fire a missile is at NY or DC? We have a country of people hearing foot steps when there’s no one there.

Mission accomplished !! Baby Busk finally get what he wants. Did not he said, God asked him to do this ??

Where is ABC’s coverage of the Ashley Biden cocaine controversy?
Funny how ABC couldnt wait to smear Bristol Palin, and family on her teen pregnancy.
Here we have who is alledged to be the Vice Presidents daughter whiffing lines on video, and no story? Hilarious.
Come on ABC, youre liberal democrat bias is disgustingly on full display once again.How you guys can look at yourselves in the mirror is beyond me.

In response to: “If we stop it then North Korea can ask the UN to shut down our missile programs, and Iran can ask the UN to shut down all our nuclear research and take our nukes.”
Bunk… The U.N. can’t even run their own books right and can’t stop missile launches or anything else for that matter. If they did pass a “resolution” to take our weapons, do you honestly think our military would allow it? Not.

oh this is rich! just read on drudge and a new york paper that vice president joe biden’s daughter is in a cocaine scadel. can’t believe that this article i’ve linked to is the lead story in the politics section of this website, and the coke story is no where to be found. typical biased website. if this were one of president bush’s daughters, it would have have headlined the website. sorry state of reporting in my book.

Veteran38: I loved it. Still cracking up.

Come on ABC, youre liberal democrat bias is
disgustingly on full display once again.How you
guys can look at yourselves in the mirror is beyond
me. Posted by: Badger1 |
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Lets look at the “purporting evidence” The Post
reported that the video shows a 20-something
woman with light skin and long brown hair taking
a red straw from her mouth and bending over a
desk, inserting the straw into her nostril and
snorting from lines of white powder.
The woman appears to “resemble” the 27-year-old
Biden, a social worker who was a visible presence
during her father’s campaign for the White House.
Dunlap refused to name the person who shot the
video, but told the Post that he knew Ashley Biden
well and had attended other parties with her at
which there were illegal drugs. The lawyers said the
person who shot the video used a camera with a
hard-drive that he later destroyed, drilling into the
device and tossing it into a lake.
Talk about greed, the person who has the tape,
obtained a lawyer to try selling it to the press for
over $1/4 million! The lawyer thought it was
legally done, but later found out that it was a
hidden camera, so he dropped the client like a hot
potato.
Lets see what transpires before inserting your foot
into your mouth

frenchreader –
We did not go to war with the Iraqi military, we went to war w/ radical islamic insurgents/terrorists. They don’t get the luxuries of a military representing a soverign nation. And about the nukes…anyone with anything to lose has them…that’s called logic. If someone has nothing to lose (ie: Korea/Kim Jong Il) then NO! they should not have a nuke, let alone multiple warheads and ballistic missiles you terd of a human!

N korea is like a child trapped in a playpen, kicking and screaming for attention. let them have their fun and spend what little money they have on
missiles. they dont pose a threat to anyone. japan and South Korea could kick their butts on their lunch break.

ABC news fails to report more importantly that Gates also said, “I think if we had an aberrant missile, one that was headed for Hawaii, that looked like it was headed for Hawaii or something like that, we might consider it(shooting it down),” Gates said. “But I don’t think we have any plans to do anything like that at this point.” IF A MISSILE WAS HEADING TOWARD HAWAII WE MIGHT CONSIDER SHOOTING IT DOWN??????? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?????????? How about if it was headed toward the lib’s beloved SAN FRANCISCO or WASHINGTON DC? As far as not being able to shoot it down, Obama and the NAVY were talking all types of smack about how they were going to shoot down the missile if NK decided to launch. Now that they’re faced with a bold threat from Kim Jong-Il they back down? It’s one thing to say you’re not going to do it to begin with. It’s another thing to say that you are going to do it and then back down. It shows our enemies that we can be pushed around. GREAT! In addition, you say that you’d CONSIDER shooting down the missile if it was headed toward Hawaii? Is this our foreign policy, now? We might protect you if a missile is fired at you. I won’t be moving to Hawaii anytime soon that’s for sure. This is the saddest thing I have ever heard. We’ll have to consider it before we protect our citizens. Ugghh. I got to be in a long, drawn out nightmare. Somebody please wake me or this administration up please.

Al-Qaeda, China, Russia, or north Korea would be completely mistaken to test this president and the American people resolve, with any of their aggression, I’ll admit, we are at this moment pointing fingers at each other because of our economic condition, but that is how our forbearers form our democracy with checks and balances because we value our principles, Dwight D .Eisenhower put it this way (A people that values its privileges above it’s principles soon loses both. You see one of our principles is that we value our freedom, we realizes that it is a privilege that has been paid for with a heavy price, and for that reason any aggressive threats to take away or undermine our freedoms in one accord both democrats, independent and republicans a like, than our finger pointing becomes a fist against thee aggressors.

I hate what North Korea did, but what right do WE have to tell ANY county what they do as far as missile development…(or as we would call it when we do tests…”missile defence”)

The North Korean missile is the least of your worries, you white trash are doomed anyway.
Theck this out:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-08-07-census_N.htm?csp=1

Why not forget the U.N. and ask the Chinese to tell the North Koreans to “Cool it!” Better yet, stop thinking that we run the world, it didn’t work for Bush and it isn’t going to work for President Obama and Hillary. Good example was the Georgia Invasion-sent Senators, Condi rice, and everybody to Georgia-not one went to Russia! Why? President Bush didn’t want to negotiate with Russia about our Patriot Missiles in Poland. Of Course, JFK told Russia not to put missiles in Cuba but that was different!

North Korea has got to go. Literally. They need to be turned into an ocean. Maybe we could name it the “North Korean Sea.” Either way, allowing Jong to live is going to eventually lead to the loss of millions upon millions of lives from neighboring countries. Im sorry, but North Korea, or their way of life, needs to be eradicated.