Helen Thomas vs. Ari Fleischer

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Wed Jan 8 22:13:09 PST 2003


Yoshie wrote:
> Higher estimates of famine deaths in North Korea mention that 2
> million or more people died (Cf.
> <http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9808/19/nkorea.famine/>), a great
> boon if the US were planning for a military aggression for "regime
> change." And yet the US is far more gun-ho about "regime change" in
> Iraq than in North Korea -- despite the remaining Cold War rhetoric.

So what? The pretext for US military action against Iraq is to prevent it from obtaining the nuclear veto North Korea already possesses.

-- Luke



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