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In a rare display of complete insanity, a recent poll reports that Britons (and others) think that George Bush is more dangerous than Kim Jong-Il and the Iranian Hitler Ahmadinejad.

Asked whether they thought the U.S. leader was a great or moderate danger to peace, 75 percent of British people said yes. Some 87 percent felt the same about bin Laden, while Kim scored 69 percent and Ahmadinejad clocked 62 percent.

The “Old Europe” socialist Liberals prove they have no common sense and no desire to preserve their lives against the growing world-wide threat of radical Islam.

Islamofascists aided by the Liberal media have thoroughly brain-washed many in the world to call good evil and evil good. What hope is there to win the global war on Islamofascists when the very people you seek to help view you worse than your enemies.

Life is not going to get any better for the Britons either. Another recent article described how life in the UK is being transformed into a Big Brother nightmare with cameras tracking every move and computers watching every transaction.

This is what happens when men lose the will to fight. They turn to the government and give up their freedoms for the “hope” of safety and peace. You cannot have freedom without courage to fight for that freedom. You cannot have safety unless you are willing to die in defense of your homeland.

The United States is fighting for freedom and for the right of people to live in peace yet these fools think that madmen are better. Truly disgusting.

Harking back to Reagan’s speech and the idea of a moral imperative, a group has brought the disgusting atrocities committed by the North Koreans to the UN for review (and hopefully action). The report describes:

Pyongyang’s brutal treatment of its citizens, from the beatings of pregnant women to force miscarriages to the abduction, torture and execution of political prisoners.

“It is clear that (North Korean leader) Kim Jong-il and the North Korean government are actively committing crimes against humanity,” they said in a letter introducing the report, which was prepared by the nonprofit, independent U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea and by the DLA Piper law firm.

The report, largely based on previously published material, estimates that North Korea imprisons “upwards of 200,000 people in its modern-day gulag” and that double that number have died in the its prison network over 30 years.

It describes prisoners being fed near-starvation diets that they supplement with insects, being beaten until their eyeballs pop out and being entombed in “sweatbox” solitary cells so small they are forced to crouch for months.

What type of regime commits or allows acts like these? How can the World turn a blind eye toward the sufferings of others? Is it not the righteous thing to actively overthrow such an evil government?

The current North Korean government and policies add no value to this planet. Many expect the wimps at the UN to turn away from the moral imperative here like they have done in other parts of the world.

Yeah, let’s all six-party talk. What a pathetic joke.

What a week. US Intel says that North Korea is prepping for another nuke blast. Guess desperate times call for desperate measures? Of course Secretary Rice (along with others) are still begging for North Korea to come back to the six-party talks.

I wish I had a direct line to someone in the State Department. I would ask them “what exactly do you hope to accomplish in the six-party talks?” It doesn’t make any sense to me. North Korea does whatever it wants and habitually lies. What assurance can you get from a liar? What agreement can you make that won’t be broken?

The most bizarre news lately is the reported apology for the Oct 9th nuke test by Kim Jong Il.

The Chosun Ilbo daily quoted a Chinese diplomatic source as saying Kim made the apology and the reiteration of his government’s known position in a meeting Thursday morning with State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan, who visited Pyongyang as a special envoy of Chinese President Hu Jintao.

I’m sure most Liberals believe he is sincere. I wonder if Secretary Rice thinks he’s sincere? Yeah, I’m sure he’s real sorry. There is an off-chance that the Chinese turned up the heat and Kim Jong got nervous, but it’s most likely just another slick move to allow China to thwart any escalation in sanctions (after all he said he was “sorry”).

If another nuke test happens, we’ll know for sure it was just a rhetorical bluff.

Looks like North Korea got the message. Today’s it’s being reported:

Blaming the United States for instigating U.N. Security Council sanctions against it, North Korea on Tuesday called the resolution approved over the weekend a “declaration of war.”

North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency that the country wants “peace but is not afraid of war.”

The North “vehemently denounces the resolution, a product of the U.S. hostile policy toward (the North) and totally refutes it,” the statement said, according to a report from The Associated Press.

The North Koreans are pathetically hilarious. They lie, build nukes, act like mad-men, make threats against their neighbors, and then cry like babies when the world slaps sanctions on them. Seriously, Kim Jong is really lucky that he’s still alive. It wouldn’t be too hard for the US to send a GPS guided bomb with his name on it.

Most likely the North Koreans are trying to test the resolve of neighbor states. Now having played the “war” card, people who fear confrontation will call for “talks” and other conciliatory gestures. The Libs here in the US will most likely start calling for “dialogue” saying that the sanctions are useless provocations that will lead us to another war. You know the line.

Meanwhile, Rice continues to promote her failed policy:

“We must remind North Korea that a positive path remains open to it through the six-party talks,” Rice said. “Thus far, North Korea has chosen the path of confrontation and all that that entails — deepening isolation, a failing economy, and few opportunities for its oppressed peoples.

What is with these people in the State Department? Six-party talks, Six-party talks. Shut up already. North Korea doesn’t want them and they have failed for how many years now? The talks existed to stop the North Koreans from going nuclear. Too late. It’s time now for sanctions and regime change.

The UN voted 15 – 0 to adopt resolution 1718 against North Korea. The resolution has a lot of “deploring” and firmly condemns the nuclear test. It also seeks to stop the import and export of military items, technology, and luxury goods. This is all fine and dandy but the real issue is if the member states will enforce this resolution.

The ink isn’t even dry and the NY Times is reporting that:

A day after the Council unanimously passed the resolution, following nearly a week of intensive diplomatic negotiations, the South Korean government said it would still pursue economic projects with North Korea, including an industrial zone and tourist resort in the North. Those projects are not explicitly covered by the Security Council resolution, but they are an important source of hard currency for the North.

China, which shares a 870-mile porous border with North Korea and is perhaps its most critical economic gateway to the outside world, said Saturday that it had no intention of stopping and inspecting cross-border shipments, as called for, but not specifically required, in the resolution. The Chinese government said nothing on Sunday about how it intended to carry out the sanctions, and American officials said they would be focused on whether the normal trade flow across the border was slowed.

The relative silence on Sunday about how the resolution would be enforced, coupled with the vagaries of the resolution itself, raised concerns that the Security Council action would not have much of an impact for the foreseeable future.

It takes a week of arguing, negotiating, and finally a watering-down of the resolution to get approval and now nobody knows if it’s going to be enforced. Is there any wonder why people think the UN is an absolute waste of time?

The same questions and non-action were evident for 10 years with Saddam and Iraq. The resolutions were in place, yet none of the member states had the guts to enforce them. Deja-vu for the 100th time.

Meanwhile, the North Korean delegate threw a tantrum and said that North Korea “totally rejects the unjustifiable resolution” and vowed that if the United States increases “pressure upon the Democratic Peoples of the Republic of Korea persistently, the DPRK will continue to take physical countermeasures, considering it as a declaration of war.”

Hello? Of course it’s an act of war. It’s low-grade, non-violent war, but it’s war baby. Let’s hope that Bush has the balls to press this matter, including interdiction missions and blockades. If North Korea wants to go to full-scale war, the US can easily and effectively neutralize their threats.

It’s hard to believe but Sam Donaldson leads his article North Korea and Politics 101 with a completely made up story about how George Bush calls Kim Jong Il and asks for him to test the nuke to help the Republicans win the election. While Donaldson admits:

Now, of course, that phone call is fantasy. But let us examine the idea that this North Korean test will help the president and by extension his party change the subject back to homeland security.

that does not change the insinuation, the conspiracy theory, that somehow Bush is pulling an October surprise. Talk about pandering to your lunatic fringe base. Donaldson is a complete idiot.

The liberal media trumpets daily that Bush is a moron yet they think he’s smart enough to keep North Korea in his back pocket to win an election? You don’t lead your article with a lunatic conspiracy story unless you partially believe it.

Guess it’s no surprise when you consider many hate Bush people think the Republicans have Osama and put him up to messages just before election times. One of the most inept foreign policy administrations since Jimmy Carter is smart enough and has enough power to control North Korea and Al Quaeda? Get real.

Sam, do us all a favor and go away.

When diplomats get angry, they use “mean” words. So far we are getting the standard “you’ve been a bad boy” adjectives. Of course, no real threats and no action.

Current list: Reckless, Irresponsible, Provocative, Dangerous.

To do my part, I’d like to suggest some other words that the UN girls can use: Careless, Foolhardy, Incautious, Heedless, Rash, Indiscreet, Imprudent, and Harebrained.

Presidential loser Kerry said:

Massachusetts Democratic Sen. John Kerry, who lost to Bush in the 2004 presidential election, called the North Korea test a “shocking failure” of Bush’s security policy.

“While we’ve been bogged down in Iraq where there were no weapons of mass destruction, a madman has apparently tested the ultimate weapon of mass destruction,” Kerry said.

Though Kerry can’t help but interject the “Iraq-o-failure” posturing, he nailed the shocking failure part.

Let’s face it, Bush completely stepped in a pile of crap when he started the whole Axis of Evil ™ talk. He wasn’t prepared to fight and win against these evil nations. It appears he hoped that his cowboy image and tough talk would be enough to bring change. It wasn’t. He went all in on a bluff and got called.

I’m still waiting for someone to call for a resignation. Can we have such monumental foreign policy failure and everyone gets to keep their jobs?

Gotta love the looks this morning on the Bush team. Condi has that look like “what do you mean the six party talks didn’t work…?” Mr. Card looks like “oh crap, will I have a job tonight?” Laura is just asleep.

The early polls show that we have unanimous UN Security Council condemnation (I’m sure North Korea is scared) and this great tidbit:

A statement said Annan “calls on all parties to respond to this grave challenge in a constructive manner, and calls for serious negotiations to be renewed urgently in the framework of the six-party talks.”

I want to know what they smoke over there at the UN. Constructive manner and more six-party talks?! These people are completely insane. It doesn’t matter what some rogue dictator does, the answer is always “let’s talk about it.” When diplomats call for talks it means they have no clue what to do next. North Korea called the world’s bluff and now the UN and the US will show they have no will to overthrow this rogue regime.