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2003-01-11 Axis of Evil

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-01-11 04:18 pm|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 No Fred, not sedatives. Haloperidol. And I'd have plenty of extra doses on hand for when the first doses wear off.

Posted by Steve White 2003-01-11 15:20:18|| 2003-01-11 15:20:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Don't ya have to be religious to have a 'holy' war? I thought NK was atheistic except for its worship of Dear Leader.

Posted by JAB 2003-01-11 16:18:50|| 2003-01-11 16:18:50|| Front Page Top

#3 I think one member of the Axis of Evil has been chatting with the others a little too long. "Holy war" is straight outta Riyadh, G.

Posted by Just John 2003-01-11 18:36:26|| 2003-01-11 18:36:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Bill Richardson, gov. of New Mexico, was on CNN-I after he spoke to North Korean officials today.
It was a long interview, but basically it boiled down to two points: 1) they want attention like the smallest of a family of 8; 2) they're nutty as a loon ...
But that's not really news, is it?

Posted by Scott 2003-01-11 19:16:38|| [balticblog.blogspot.com/] 2003-01-11 19:16:38|| Front Page Top

#5 I saw that timeburner interview on CNN also this afternoon at the gym. I began to get pissed and frustrated, so I turned the grade on the treadmill up to 15% and kept upping the speed. Time passed by quite quickly. Got a good workout. I hope that Bush's plan is to have Richardson or whoever "dialogue" with them ad infinitum to satisfy those noisy elements while we make plans. We have been dealing with these inhuman murdering psychopaths for over 50 years now and nothing has changed. This regime has to go to make any human progress north of the 38th. They need a sugardaddy to keep from imploding and our aid is not helping. Put the monkey on China's back. They are the ones that have kept the NKors going for all these years. Like Lincoln said "One war at a time." (if possible). N Korea, the ultimate zen koan. Now I feel better......

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-01-11 19:32:44|| 2003-01-11 19:32:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Come 'n listen to my story 'bout a man named Kim
Poor Stalinist, barely kept his country in famin
And then one day, he was shootin' for some nukes
And Bubba said stop will give ya bubblin' crude
Oil, that is, black gold, Texas tea

Well the first thing you know, Il's a vissionaire
Kimâs folk said, Jong, your our Dear Leader
Said, Pyongyang is the place you we want to be
So they loaded up the Reactors and they threatened South Korea
Seoul, that is, seas of fire, World War III

Well, now it's time to say goodbye to Il and all his kin
Dubbya would like to thank you folks for kindly giving' in
You're all invited back again to this locality
To have your arse handed to you Diplomaticly
No Oil, that is, set a spell, no soup for you, take your shoes off

Y'all come back now, hear?

Posted by Richard 2003-01-11 21:49:45|| 2003-01-11 21:49:45|| Front Page Top

#7 North Korea's official "religion", outlined by Big Daddy Kim back in the 1950's, is "Juche".
Juche boils down basically to "self-reliance" and is essentially only a justification to maintain the Stalinist cult of personality.
Kim used it to liquidate "revisionists" who got uppity after Stalin's 1953 death and, inspired by Kruschev's Stalin bashing, asked uncomfortable questions about why NoKo lost the "War To Liberate The Fatherland" (1950-1953).
Another great paradox--Just as the "Religion of Peace" murders thousands, "Juche" (self-reliance) means threatening the world with nuclear armegeddon if the government can't (and it can't) supply it's people with the basic essentials of life.
What a world, eh?

Posted by JDB 2003-01-11 21:53:12|| 2003-01-11 21:53:12|| Front Page Top

#8 Just another way of saying, "If we can't have our way, we're going to do terrible things to other people."

The willingness of True Believers® in one thing or another to help others depart this vale of tears is somehow simultaneously breath-taking and tedious.

Posted by Fred 2003-01-11 23:46:26|| 2003-01-11 23:46:26|| Front Page Top

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