(CNN) -- Citing what it calls U.S. threats to topple its political system, North Korea says it is dropping out of six-party nuclear talks and will "bolster its nuclear weapons arsenal," North Korea's official news agency KCNA reported.
North Korea announced it has nuclear weapons and said that it needs them as protection against an increasingly hostile United States.
Rice: "The message is clear: give up these aspirations for nuclear weapons and you know life can be different."
ehem. Yet the Department of Energy is spending an astonishing $6.5 billion on nuclear weapons this year, and President Bush is requesting $6.8 billion more for next year and a total of $30 billion over the following four years...
There is no nuclear arms race going on now. The world no longer offers many suitable nuclear targets. President Bush is trying to persuade other nations—especially "rogue regimes"—to forgo their nuclear ambitions. Yet he is shoveling money to U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories as if the Soviet Union still existed and the Cold War still raged. http://slate.msn.com/id/2099425/
Let's get this straight. So, nuclear weapons are bad. The US incriminates other countries for possessing them, but itself has a shit load of WMDs. Why is this ok again? Why is this not the question spilling out of media television in living rooms across the country? At a time when morals seem to be playing such a decisive role, where have they vanished to in the face of US foreign policy? Paint a nice picture for you? We're like strict parents on drugs. backward, indeed.
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