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Today, at a congressional committee, CIA Administrator George Tenet made the declaration that North Korea has a missle capable of hitting the West Coast. I am familiar with this missle from news magazines; however, my understanding is that the missle is decades away and the North Koreans have only short-range missles capable of landing in Japan. This, coupled with facts being contradicted by outside intelligence agencies on other matters, ex. Sec. Powell said ricin made in Britain was made in Iraq was actually proved false by British intelligence who declared the ricin a home-grown product, leaves me very skeptical. Is George Tenet's declaration an use of propandanda for whatever reasons, or are there genuine facts to support this assertion? Right now, I am not sure of what is actually occuring in our world. I feel our government is being disingenous with the populace, and using fear and the threat of harm as means to an end. I certainly hope not or the terrorists who killed thousands of our countrymen and countrywomen have succeeded beyond their faintest dreams into changing our country not for the better but for the worse.
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Don't worry, there are several thousand ICBMS targeted at your country at this very moment. So nattering over one or two from NK isn't a big issue.
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I tend to think it's BOTh fact adn fiction. They PROBOBLY do have a missile cabable of flying to the west coast, but the odds of it hitting a target are low. To hit LA from Korea will take a number of test firings to work out the bugs.
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And I don't think your Yanqui Government will like having test missiles shot at thier cities...
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Since I live in Los Angeles, I am none to pleased at the thought of North Korean missles being pointed at us. When this thought is combined with the very poor foreign policy / diplomatic skills of Mr. Bush, who knows what can happen.
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If the gov't were lying about the DPRK, I'd expect to hear the opposite: that they couldn't hit us if they tried. Then they could keep saying that we should go after Iraq. However, if North Korea has a confirmed and admitted nuclear program, the confirmed ability to create nuclear weapons therefrom, and confirmed missiles that can reach the US, and they still claim Iraq is a bigger immediate threat, they're insane.
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It must be; the BBC has an "Iraq: Britain Decides" logo. That means it's serious.
quote: I feel our government is being disingenous with the populace, and using fear and the threat of harm as means to an end.
Well, there's a surprise.
In any case they've probably only got one or two actual nukes and you've got a couple of thousand. So what's the likelihood of them actually firing at the US west coast?
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The Korea situation is now up before the Security Council.
North Korea has said it will consider any UN sanctions imposed against it an act of war.
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Oh, so they're going to declare war against the entire UN? Or just the security council?
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quote: Don't worry, there are several thousand ICBMS targeted at your country at this very moment. So nattering over one or two from NK isn't a big issue.
Nothing like perspective!!
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