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You know it’s time to strike North Korea when even former Clinton officials are saying do it. In a piece written in the Washington Post, Ashton Carter and William Perry advocate:

if North Korea persists in its launch preparations, the United States should immediately make clear its intention to strike and destroy the North Korean Taepodong missile before it can be launched. This could be accomplished, for example, by a cruise missile launched from a submarine carrying a high-explosive warhead.

The six party talks are a joke. Sorry President Bush, but it’s time to admit a policy failure. Yes the surrounding nations have a stake in what the North Koreans are doing, but when the North Korean Hitler decides he’s going to build nukes and now an intercontinental ballistic missile to carry them, unilateral action must be taken.

In fact, President Bush must act immediately to defend and protect the United States.

The concluding paragraph to the article sums this up nicely:

This is a hard measure for President Bush to take. It undoubtedly carries risk. But the risk of continuing inaction in the face of North Korea’s race to threaten this country would be greater. Creative diplomacy might have avoided the need to choose between these two unattractive alternatives. Indeed, in earlier years the two of us were directly involved in negotiations with North Korea, coupled with military planning, to prevent just such an outcome. We believe diplomacy might have precluded the current situation. But diplomacy has failed, and we cannot sit by and let this deadly threat mature. A successful Taepodong launch, unopposed by the United States, its intended victim, would only embolden North Korea even further. The result would be more nuclear warheads atop more and more missiles.

Bush called it right when he gave the “Axis of Evil” speech. It’s time Bush stopped being a Liberal on North Korea.

Things have been quiet for North Korea lately, but it looks like this is about to change.

North Korea is accelerating preparations for testing a missile that has the potential to strike the United States, a U.S. government official said Friday. A test of the Taepodong-2 long-range missile may be imminent, the official said.

From the attention the US is giving this, Kim Jong appears ready to step in a pile of trouble. It’s one thing to have nukes; it’s another thing to have nukes and a missile that can hit the US. The question is how long will the US continue to try the failed “six way” talks?

At some point Bush has to realize that the “talks” are failed and chart another path. North Koreans are starving and defecting whenever they get the courage to run. The world would definitely be better without a Communist North Korea.

Maybe Kim Jong will give the US the opportunity to do another regime change.

Taken from here:

1. Jordanian Intel officers Caputure Iraqi customs worker Ziad Khalaf al-Kerbouly
2. Kerbouly fingers Sheik Abdel Rhahman (the Zarqawi “spiritual” leader)
3. Top Secret US Special Operations unit, Task Force 77, locates the Sheik and puts him under surveillance
4. Follow the Sheik to Zarqawi
5. Bomb the location

Great stuff.

Here’s a great piece demonstrating the blatant and disgusting media bias in the reporting on the death of Zarqawi.

it is infinitely clear that the media’s view of Zarqawi changed virtually the moment he was killed. In fact, their response to what they had presaged in the past would be great news if it happened was instead designed to dampen the public’s enthusiasm for the event, while at the same time diminish any positive the Bush administration could gain from it here at home.

Good ole C-BS. The United States pulls off the killing of the #1 al-Qaeda terrorist in Iraq and C-BS comes up with a poll stating:

The death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has done little to improve views of how things are going for the U.S. in Iraq or boost President Bush’s approval ratings, a CBS News poll finds…

Half think the level of violence in Iraq will be unchanged by Zarqawi’s death, while 30 percent say it will actually lead to more attacks against U.S. forces. Just 16 percent think the number of attacks will decrease as a result of his death.

So the #1 terrorist leader in Iraq is killed and 50% think it will do nothing?! The religion of Liberalism, with its hatred of the United States, cannot see anything but defeatism. Why? Because Liberals need failure in Iraq to promote their agenda to regain political power.

Iraqis vote, it means nothing. Iraqis form a new government, it means nothing. Top terrorist leaders are killed, it means nothing. The only thing Liberalism will believe is that Iraq is a quagmire, Bush lied, and the United States is a failure.

Pathetic.

Insurgent leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi lived for 52 minutes, in and out of consciousness, before he succumbed to massive internal injuries caused by the concussive blasts from two 500-pound bombs dropped by a U.S. fighter jet, U.S. military officials in Baghdad said Monday.

On Zarqawi’s death, Col. Stephen Jones, command surgeon for multinational forces in Iraq, said the shock waves from the bombs, ricocheting inside the hideout north of Baghdad, burst Zarqawi’s blood vessels in his lungs and ears. When an American medic cleared his airway, blood flowed from Zarqawi’s mouth. (read here)

As Thomas Jefferson noted: God is just and his justice cannot sleep forever. This twisted psychopathic murderer in the name of “Allah” indeed got his earthly justice handed to him and not a moment too soon. I’m just glad he got to suffer a bit before facing God.
Proving that “nextonthelist” will never lack for members: (read here)

Al Qaeda in Iraq named a successor following the killing of the group’s leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, according to an Internet statement on Monday.

“The shura council of al Qaeda in Iraq unanimously agreed on Sheikh Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, to be a successor to Sheikh Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,” said a statement signed by al Qaeda and posted on a Web site frequently used by Islamist militants.

“Sheikh Abu Hamza al-Muhajir is a good brother, has a history in jihad and is knowledgeable. We ask God that he … continue what Sheikh Abu Musab began,” it said.

This reminds me of the Far Side cartoon where the deer has a bullseye for a birthmark with the caption “bummer of a birthmark, Hal”. President Bush wasted no time saying this next idiot is now on the list.

It just doesn’t get much better than this. Being an Air Force veteran, nothing warmed my heart more than to see a couple 500 lb bombs finding and killing the Islamic pig Zarqawi (read the great news here).

Check out the bombing video here.

President Bush said it best:

Good morning. Last night in Iraq, United States military forces killed the terrorist al Zarqawi. At 6:15 p.m. Baghdad time, special operation forces, acting on tips and intelligence from Iraqis, confirmed Zarqawi’s location, and delivered justice to the most wanted terrorist in Iraq.

The next great day is when we see a picture of a bloody dead Osama.

USA Today reports:

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld branded Iran as the world’s leading terrorist nation yet hoped Tehran seriously would consider incentives from the West in exchange for suspending suspect nuclear activities.

Perhaps my memory is mistaken, but isn’t it the standing policy that United States will go after all nations that harbor or support terrorism? Are we not fighting the “global war on terrorism”? How is offering incentives to the #1 supporter of terrorism consistent with fighting a war? Maybe the word “war” no longer means war.