Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Donald Rumsfeld Sat on the Board of Directors of Firm Providing Reactors to N. Korea.

Make no mistake. N. Korean behavior must be addressed by the world community. However, the blame Clinton crowd is fast at work blaming Clinton for the current N. Korean crisis. (How long has Bush been in office and they're still doing it.) Never mind that George W. Bush has alternately inflamed and neglected the situation there.

Now we learn that Rumsfeld appears to have been on the board of directors of a company providing nuclear reactors to N. Korea. However, according to the Center for American Progress, a few years after participating in the deal:

"Rumsfeld attacked the concept of selling reactors to North Korea. In a speech at the Heritage Foundation, Rusmfeld said, "Our present nuclear agreement with North Korea unfortunately does not end its nuclear menace. It merely postpones the reckoning, with no assurance that we will know how much bomb-capable material North Korea has."


Read more at the jump.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/korea/article/0,2763,952289,00.html