| Just Incase you weren't paying attention... |
[Jul. 13th, 2004|01:13 am] |
March 2003:
- U.S. Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly estimates North Korea could be months, not years, from producing highly-enriched uranium (HEU).
North Korea appears to be having trouble restarting its plutonium processing plant
- Talks continue; Libya says it will accept responsibility for Lockerbie (*December 1988: Libyan terrorists bomb PanAm flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people.*)
- The US declares war on Iraq.
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May 2003:
- South Korean official says the U.S. has a satellite photo showing smoke coming from radiation and chemical labs at Yongbyon (signaling the site may be reprocessing spent fuel rods).
North Korea nullifies a 1992 agreement with South Korea to keep the peninsula free of nuclear weapons.
President Bush and South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun vow not to "tolerate nuclear weapons in North Korea," and threaten "further steps" if North Korea continues its nuclear program
- According to a report in the Financial Times, Iran uses the "Swiss channel" to make a proposal reportedly covering progress on its nuclear program, its support for terrorism, its influence in Iraq, and its role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in exchange for lifting sanctions, dropping "regime change" from the U.S. policy lexicon, and the eventual re-establishment of diplomatic relations. U.S. issues no response
- Major combat missions in Iraq are declared "over". With all that was going on in the world at the time, Bush found time to dress up as a fighter pilot and tell everyone that things are over.
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June 2003:
- After a visit to North Korea, Congressman Curt Weldon says North Korea admits having nuclear weapons and plans to build more.
North Korea announces plans to build nuclear weapons in an attempt to decrease the size of its conventional military.
The C.I.A. reportedly believes that North Korea is developing technology to make nuclear warheads small enough to fit on missiles.
- IAEA board discusses Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei's report that "Iran has failed to meet its obligations" concerning "the reporting of nuclear material, the subsequent processing and use of that material and the declaration of facilities where the material was stored and processed.”
Iran introduces uranium hexafluoride (UF6) into the first centrifuge at Natanz.
- None of this was reported, because we were "Smoking out the terrorists while the media told us repeatedly that they didn't know how long we were going to be in Iraq for.
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Since the start of all of this, nearly 11,000 Iraqi civilians have died and many have been tortured (*a cruel irony*).
But we are at a new point this week, on July 9th, we lost our 1,000th soldier in Iraq.
Ah, the cost of freedom, or something...
"War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength" - Mister Orwell |
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