Meanwhile, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld continually warns of rogue states holding "America hostage to nuclear blackmail," but fails to mention his own contribution: Rumsfeld was on the board of ABB, a company that sold hundreds of millions of dollars of equipment and services to North Korean nuclear plants. It's another intriguing coincidence that despite his administration's slamming "axis of evil" nukes, Bush recently requested $3.5 million in funding for a consortium currently building nuclear reactors in North Korea.
Double speak? Denial? Impending danger? And don't forget that India and Pakistan are still rattling nuclear sabers, Israel has a complete nuclear arsenal and Britain's Tony Blair has publicly declared the possibility of using nuclear weapons in an attack on Iraq.
Yet every day we're told the important issue is that "time is running out for Saddam," a message ludicrous at best: Iraq's army is weak, its population vanquished by years of inhumane sanctions and as Secretary of State Colin Powell recently admitted, even he has not seen the supposed evidence linking Iraq with al-Qaeda or ongoing development of weapons of mass destruction.
Double speak? Denial? Impending danger? And don't forget that India and Pakistan are still rattling nuclear sabers, Israel has a complete nuclear arsenal and Britain's Tony Blair has publicly declared the possibility of using nuclear weapons in an attack on Iraq.
Yet every day we're told the important issue is that "time is running out for Saddam," a message ludicrous at best: Iraq's army is weak, its population vanquished by years of inhumane sanctions and as Secretary of State Colin Powell recently admitted, even he has not seen the supposed evidence linking Iraq with al-Qaeda or ongoing development of weapons of mass destruction.