Real Name: Buster Buster Date of Birth: June 23, 1909 Member Since: March 14, 2006 Last Signed In: August 04, 2008 Profile Views: 9520 Blog Views: 35242 Bush buys 111,000 barrels of crude last week, with taxpayer money at 110 dollars a barrel. The Bakersfield definition of Capitalism is: Bush Jr and the Fed reserve bank Nationalize the Housing market. North Dakota may be bigger oil player than Alaska Massive Oil Deposit Could Increase US reserves by 10x It's time to stop the thieves. TK was right Is hope of an unmeasurable degree. We are putting more strains on the all-volunteer force than it was ever designed to bear Jimmy!!!!!!! 143 Million Pounds of Beef Recalled. Thanks Sen. Florez September 06 October 06 November 06 December 06 January 07 February 07 March 07 April 07 May 07 June 07 July 07 August 07 September 07 October 07 November 07 December 07 January 08 February 08 March 08 April 08 May 08 June 08 July 08 August 08 "Ideas are more dangerous than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?" --Josef Stalin 
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Bush stumps for GOP in Georgia, find lots of empty seats
PERRY, Ga. (AP) -- President Bush on Tuesday spent a second day in a row campaigning in rural Georgia, targeting a shrinking slice of America where Republicans think he still can help their election cause.
Bush is spending the final days of the midterm campaign in small town venues, where White House officials hope he can inspire people to vote GOP next Tuesday. He didn't fill the arena at the Georgia National Fairgrounds -- plenty of seats were empty in the back along with nearly half of the vast floor space. But those who came out for the Halloween night rally were enthusiastic, applauding his call for tax cuts and against gay marriage.
Up until this morning. The Republicans rallied around the idea that all politics were local.. But today. We have a issue about wording. That Bush claims should decide the election.. Bush is so incompetent that he was unaware, that Kerry was calling him stupid.. Now on the dawn of the election. He switches course, from ‘stay the course’ and declares the election a national referendum on the misstatements, of a man, who is not even running for election this year.. Cheney bungled it again..
Just like he did When he was Secretary of Defense..
Cheney's past defense cuts questioned
By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff | April 29, 2004 WASHINGTON -- Vice President Dick Cheney, who has been charging that John F. Kerry would be a dangerous commander-in-chief because he opposed many key weapons that the military now relies on, himself presided over the biggest cutbacks in defense programs in modern history when he was secretary of defense under the first President Bush. As Pentagon chief from 1989 to 1993, Cheney canceled or cut back many of the same weapons programs -- bombers, fighter planes, tanks -- that he says Kerry tried to deprive the armed forces of. Many of the Cheney-era cuts were made at the end of the Cold War, when the administration of President George H.W. Bush was seeking to reduce the size of the military and secure a ''peace dividend." But some of these downsizing efforts would have affected the military of today. Cheney proposed, for instance, disbanding part of the Army's Fourth Infantry Division, Congressional Quarterly reported in 1989. Troops from that division captured former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein last December. The latest Bush-Cheney campaign ad depicts weapons such as the B-2 stealth bomber flying over a battlefield and then disappearing into thin air, attempting to convince voters that if Kerry prevailed back then, US military forces would be underequipped. Yet Cheney canceled the B-2 bomber program after 20 planes, even though the Air Force saidit needed 132. He also canceled the Navy's A-12 bomber and scaled back the Seawolf submarine. During his Pentagon stint, the size of the Army was reduced by more than 26 percent, the Air Force by 22 percent, the Navy by 14 percent, and the Marines by 10 percent, according to the Pentagon's official biography of Cheney. But support for particular weapons ''is not a very useful way to judge strength or weakness," said a former congressional defense staffer who asked not to be named. Using such a yardstick, he added, President Jimmy Carter was the ''strongest" because his budgets resulted in the weapons that won the 1991 Gulf War.
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Is the posting script dead?
Our troops understand the reality of War..
We have military leaders that understand the reality of war. But they bow to the political leadership. What would America have said.. If our forefathers had been stuck on Normandy for 5 years. Would America have supported a leadership that allowed our troopers to be picked off on the beach, day in day out, wondering who will be next.. Not knowing what was to come next. Only that they are to stay the course.. Without a sole who can describe the destination, the end. What will winning look like. Now we have bench marks. What do we do with them. A notch in the rifle stock?? Merle Haggard - America First
There is a chance. Peace will come.
Link follows..... http://www.youtube.com/watc... Lt. Colonel Hal Moore It is true that there is not much reporting of what is good in Iraq.. There is another truth that is not being fully reported. That is the truth of the waste and corruption prevalent in Iraq. The Hospital in Basra. Spoken so highly of by Lara Bush. Is tens of millions of dollars over budget. And more than a year behind schedule.. Attacks are present even within the green zone. What purpose would there be in reporting on the rebuilding of a elementary school. If the children can’t go there without the fear of being killed.. We can shoot the Iraqi’s with a democratic bullet. But we can’t kill them into freedom.
A Iraq civil war was preordained. The moment we occupied Iraq. The question is. How many Americans will this Bush regime allow to die. Before we let the inevitable take place.. How many thousands of Americans must die to honor the 3000 thousand that have already died.. How long until we teach the Iraqi’s that outside the boundaries of law and order. Freedom and democracy can not be won by casting a ballot. Sometimes you must fight for peace. They must fight for their own freedom. They must fight until they can not stand to fight anymore.. They must be able to safely walk to school. Before they can declare a democracy.. Our troops are not policeman as the Chicken hawk would suggest.. Our troops are warriors. They are trained to be warriors. The Chicken hawk continues to rant.. In his mind. To list the facts. Is traitorous. He claims that remarks that I made. The type of remark that would be acknowledged by any American War time leader. Are traitorous. He is a chicken hawk that would blog instead of fight. The simple facts are that a extended tour in a combat zone. Will produce war crimes. That is a fact of history. And it will continue to be true for ever.. Chicken hawks do not want to acknowledge that. They are afraid that mothers will not let their children go to war. If they realize the truth about war.. The facts are. That the horrendousness of war. After enough time. Will dissolve ones humanity. Your thoughts will turn to revenge and guilt. Horrible things will happen.. Either in the reality of the fighting. Or in your nightmares when your get home.. Two and three tours in Iraq or Afghanistan are pushing our troops to their limits. Troops have already plead guilty to war crimes.. We are now required to send several American mothers children to prison for war crimes. Because they fought in a war that has no justification.. For too many tours. No matter your opinion of the war. Those are facts you can not deny. Being anti Iraq war is not being a traitor. Whether you are a veteran or homemaker. Using such vulgarity against those of an opposing view should be denounced by all Americans.. Democrat, Republican or independent..
Being anti Iraq war is not being a traitor. Whether you are a veteran or homemaker. Using such vulgarity against those of an opposing view should be denounced by all Americans.. Democrat, Republican or independent..
Cheney says, Elections cause deaths in Iraq.. WHAT??? What’s his solution? Cancel the elections? Is that the Republican plan to win the war? The Guy hasn’t a decent thought in his head.. He is wrong every time he has a thought.. The Deaths are caused by Americans involvement in the Iraq civil war.. Period The Rovenistic/Republican standard form of the truth..
Pentagon Cites Spike In Violence in Iraq Averting Civil War Called Main Goal _a near-epidemic rise in the use of Ritalin and other stimulants to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Potential recruits are ineligible for military service if they have taken such a drug in the previous year. Mar 12 2006, 02:03 PM Medications for nerve damage cure nothing. And work to different degree at different times. Because it went undiagnosed for apx 20 years, before it was drained. A considerable amount of nerve damage was the result.. There are no drugs made that are specific to nerve pain. Some anti convalescence seem to help a bit.. But their effect is spotty… At times my pain will increase while taking a medication. I will stop taking the medication and find a reduction in pain for a number of days.. Then I have to start the medication again. I can’t explain it. My Neurosurgeon can not explain it. It is just a fact. Without a answer.. I have to constantly adjust my medication.. I am particularly sensitive to this issue. For a number of reasons. One is that stem cells. Hopefully not embryonic cells, may help me with my spinal cord damage.. I have been handcuffed and arrested for falling down.. I have fallen in the street and not been able to get up. Then have car after car drive around me. Giving me that you’re a old drunk stare.. I look perfectly healthy.. Maybe not quite the R. Redford look.. But close.. (Grin) Because of my nerve damage. I have a feeling of a sever sun burn. Over 75 % of my body. A burn somewhat like that suffered by some diabetics in their hands and feet.. Remember how your hands felt, when you rode your bicycle, with out gloves, in the cold.. I can’t express how much it hurts. I can not exaggerate the effect of pain, 24 hours a day, for the rest of my life. I don’t want to hurt. I didn’t ask to be disabled. I would gladly give the pain up.. But I can’t.. And it won’t.. All I can do, is do my best, to try to be normal….. And hope that when I can’t act normal.. People will not accuse me of ‘faking it’ . General Thurman The U.S. army general in charge of security in Baghdadsaid yesterday.. We want Iraqi unity more than they do.. Tim Russert.. MSNBC minutes ago…. Pill boy Limbaugh. Says Fox is faking it.. What a sorry waste of human skin…. Head Rush has turned out to be.. And to think there was a time in the 80’s. That I could have listened to the fool.. http://mediamatters.org/ite... Iraq government says, we can cut and run in 12 months… To bad The Dear Leader never thought of that…. http://news.yahoo.com/fc/Wo... Wall Street dumps the Dear Leader.. Wall street has turned colors. The current rise in the market is due to expectations of a Democratic (Party), House and Senate. They have begun to praise Pelosi economics and her call for the return to PAGO.. They are now praising the democratic party as a indicator of a rising economy.. And a improved stock market.. The October surprise….. If you have considered voting Republican. Don’t vote too early. There will be a truck load of more surprises to come..
Pat Tillman's brother calls war illegal
PHOENIX - The brother of NFL player-turned-Army Ranger Pat Tillman, who was killed in Afghanistan, has written a scathing indictment of the war in Iraq, calling it "an illegal invasion." http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/... Bush, your plan stinks………….
Yours is a stay the course. And a course without a end is just wondering aimlessly. Let’s talk sex.. I have already voted.. Time to stop talking about politics.. GRIN John Boydstun doesn’t believe in fair wages??? If he does.. Maybe he could explain why he changed parties.. According to Marylee Shrider's column, Boydstun said: he hails from a long and distinguished line of Southern "Jeffersonian" Democrats, a group that once believed "everybody should be fairly paid and shouldn't be given what they can work for." Well TK has something to say to Boydstun.. The democratic party still believes in fair wages. It still believes in earning your way through life. That means businesses are not given a free ride. They must pay a decent wage.. The Democratic party doesn‘t believe that those construction companies that admitted to hiring illegals this last summer. Should go unpunished.. . There were companies that openly acknowledged hiring illegal’s.. In articles presented in the Californian.. The democratic party doesn’t believe that sneaking illegal workers into your shop is part and parcel to the law of supply and demand that should govern wages.. Thievery and criminality is not part of Americas dream. And such actions were found at almost every home construction site in Bakersfield this last summer.. If you believed in fair wages. You would support a living wage. Not a Coyote hauling illegals.. If you want a great America. You would happily pay more than just enough. And you would happily pay your taxes. A duty one is obliged to pay. In order that he may be assured that the dead will not pile up in the gutters in front of his home.. If you wanted a great America. You wouldn’t sit in the same room of one who has earned his fortune by starving the illegals they have enticed to work in America.. American taxpayers. Will be forced to pay for a 2000 mile fence to secure Americas border. For one reason.. That reason is the greed of those who will hire the illegals.. The Nov. surprise. Bush announces ‘cut and run’ on Nov 8th.. Let’s us study what is happening.. 1st there is the J. Baker Bi-partisan committee on Iraq. 2nd. After the failures of the Bagdad assault. Bush announces yesterday that he was meeting with the Generals to discuss plans for Iraq… When you add those two up.. You don’t get 3.. You get political posturing. Fodder for the failing Republican candidates. Words that they can use to placate Republican voters that have become disillusioned by this regimes failure to: 1. Formulate and execute a winning plan for the Iraq debacle.. 2. Adapt to situations as they appear in Iraq. The failure to formulate a winning plan. And the failure to accept a change in policy, from those who have the knowledge and experience to produce a winning plan.... 3. The failure to rid the world of Saddam. In fact giving him a greater presence. Allowing him to announce from a court room. Americas failures.. 4. The above failures drawing all of our military resources, producing the inability to capture Osama.. 5. Bush’s failure to fire the America’s ‘monument of hatred’ to the world.. RUMMY..
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE PARTY OF, ‘CUT AND RUN’. They cut and run from N. Korea. Now N. Korea has the NUKE.. They cut and run from V.N. They cut and run from Lebanon.. They have failed in the most miserable way in Iraq. Leaving us with no option but to ‘cut and run’ from Iraq.. The refusal to stay and fight until Osama was captured. Has Allowed Afghanistan to once again return to being the supplier of 95% of the worlds opiates. This just a couple of years after the Taliban had almost totally eliminate the production of opiates.. Voters. Don’t go to the polls as a parent of a whining, spoiled child. Bush has promised to be better. Not to do it again. To many times.. But: Look at the Bush history. It is full of unfulfilled or failed promises.. Bush will insist he has ‘political capital’ again. If the Nov. election does not produce a total rebuke of his regimes policies.. VOTE FOR CHANGE.. Staying the course is failing America.. Social Security. And it’s proposed destruction.. Social Security is the Keystone of the current American economy.. It is the publics ability to continue to spend. That keeps all areas of the American economy afloat.. When the going gets tough.. The local market can count on the retired to spend on the 3rd of the month.. The toy store can always count on the retired to spend at holidays and on the Grand kids birthdays.. To take vacations and fill up those empty rooms.. Social Security is insurance.. It is a annuity no different than any private insurance.. Except for the fact that funding for this annuity. Has not been increased in 23 years.. How many times has your Car, health or property insurance been increased in the past 23 years.. Why would anyone praise a private system of insurance that relies on annual rate increases just to hold their heads above water. Then condemn the system of social security whose rate stability can not be matched by any private insurance system. Whose performance as an annuity puts to shame the failures and criminality rampant in the private annuity market.. America is indeed facing a huge economic problem.. But it is not in the Social Security system. Rather it will be in the stock and bond market.. Politicians can argue all they want. But the Social Security loans are secured by the full faith and credit of the United states. Could the U.S. government default on these loans? Of course. And if pigs had wings they could fly.. The reality is.. Before the U.S. defaulted on the loans to Social Security. The Stock and Bond market would collapse.. So now I have exposed the true reason for Bush’s privatization of social security.. The purpose is to cause a huge flow of money into the Stock market. Creating a false wealth. The same false wealth that was created when the 401k’s first took off.. The infusion of new money.. Not a true investment. Rather the buying into a pyramid scheme.. The problem with this scheme is that Joe schmuck. Who is FORCED to invest his $25 dollars a week in to the market for 40 years... Is in competition with those market sharks that have no rules. No restrictions. Buying and selling at every whim.. Being sure to withdraw from the market. Just before you are set to retire. Drawing the stock market down to zero. The day before you get your gold watch.. How can America be so foolish to accept the idea that owning a piece of paper, that comes with no guarantee. Is part of a ownership society.. How can we be so foolish as to prop up a market that has become a gamble instead of a investment.. It is widely believed that 50% of Americans own stocks. That is a lie. Only ¾ of 1% of Americans actually own a stock.. Indeed 50% of Americans IN SOME WAY are invested in the stock market. But this figure includes union pension plans and the like.. If you actually hold a stock certificate. You are one of the few.. Some of the most experienced stock market analysts worked for Airline pension plans. What happened to their investments after the 2000 fall of the market. Municipal plans. What happened to them? Now wonder how you would succeed in the market and work 60 hours a week.. Bush’s plan called for a maximum investment of 1% the first year.. That means millions of Americans. That work part time or near minimum wage would be investing less than $80/year.. $7/month… $2/week… Can you now imagine your nest egg at 65 years old.. Are we all going to Paris in the summer? If the individuals had to pay a flat 100/year fund fee. They would be in debt for the rest of their life, $20 every year. At 100/year fund fee. The fund manager would have to support 1000 clients.. To GROSS $100 thousand a year.. How many hours of phone calls a day, per client could this manager actually handle? Not very likely.. The average 401k plan today is about $50 thousand dollars. Turn that into a lifetime annuity as will be required by Bush’s Privatization plan. And the plan combined with about $500/ month. Will pay for your health insurance..
Fix Social Security. Not the stock/bond market.. Lower the Federal debt. And raise the Social Security premiums to make them forever solvent.. Does GOD endorse the elimination of the estate tax?
The War in Iraq.? Un-secure borders? Guantanamo? Torture? Warrant less eavesdropping? Elimination of the Social Security Program? The Taliban? I guess my point is. What does GOD think about a image of him or his name on a political poster.. Or the misuse of his name from either a pulpit or a presidential podium..
Subject: Rattle Snake Caught at Devil's Lake
Check out the size of the rattlesnake caught up in Devil's Lake Park . I think the picture was taken at the Badger Ammunition facility. It was 9 feet long and 80 pounds or something like that. Kind of makes you wonder about running around on trails in just shorts. UK troops are exacerbating security. Top Gen. says Withdraw The new head of the British Army, General Sir Richard Dannatt, has sparked a row by saying UK troops are exacerbating security problems in Iraq and should withdraw soon.
From: No N. Korean Nuke.. It’s Clintons fault…
No radiation has been detected since the supposed Korean nuke explosion. The first words out of Rice, McCain, and Bush. Put the blame on Clinton.. Clinton’s policy indeed worKed.. History starts anew today.. This event again shows the Bush Regime’s failure to accept responsibility for any of their actions… The future in now squarely on the Bush..
Can Capitalism survive WITHOUT GOVERNMENT AND LAWS??
NO TK says: The only free enterprising without government would be buccaneering The following is a bit of my wordsmithery.. It is an example of 'The government', acting as the vehicle's that keeps the economy running. Capitalism can not survive in the presence of crime or corruption. Unless laws are created to offset the ill effects of the law breakers. The minimum wage is one of the offsets. The crime.. Illegal immigration. AND THE ILLEGAL HIRING OF THESE CRIMINALS..... For this discussion I will add, GOVERNMENTS COST MONEY. How much it costs is open to discussion.. But the people and the people who own corporations, determine the cost.. Not Government.. Unless you wish to be a hermit and measure your wealth in pecans. Society and socializing is the purpose of our existence. And government is the guarantor of our society..
What do you call a man with half a brain?
Gifted Why do men have slits in their underware? So they can get oxygen to their brains. Why are vibrators better than men? Because they never screw other women, never come in drunk, and you don't have to do their laundry! How can you tell if a man is a Male Chauvinist Pig? He thinks "harass" is two words How does a man show he's planning for the Future? He buys two cases of beer instead of one. Why do men want to marry virgins? They can't stand criticism. What is a man's idea of foreplay? A half hour of begging. What do you call a handcuffed man? Trustworthy. How can you tell when a man is well hung? When you can just barely slip your finger in between his neck and the noose What do men and pantyhose have in common? They either cling, run or don't fit right in the crotch! Scientists have discovered a food that diminishes a woman's sex drive by 90%!!! Its called wedding cake. In the beginning, God created the earth and rested. Then God created man, and rested. Then God created woman. Since then neither God nor man have rested. A man inserted an advertisement in the classified. In read: "Wife Wanted" The next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: You can have mine. The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once. If your dog is barking at the back door and your wife is yelling at the front door, who do you let in first? The dog, of course. He'll shut up once you let him in. What's worse than a male chauvinist pig? A women who won't do what she's told. What do you call a woman who just lost 90% of her intelligence? Divorced.
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Pentagon Cancels Terrorism Betting Plan By KEN GUGGENHEIM The Associated Press Tuesday, July 29, 2003; 7:06 PM WASHINGTON - Under fire from all sides, the Pentagon on Tuesday dropped plans for a futures market that would have allowed traders to profit from accurate predictions on terrorism, assassinations and other events in the Middle East. Republicans said they knew nothing about the program and would never have approved it. They called the head of the Pentagon agency overseeing the project to Capitol Hill to answer questions. Democrats demanded details of any related Pentagon programs, an apology from the Bush administration and the firing of those responsible for the market. "I think those who thought it up ought not only close down the program. They ought not be on the public payroll any longer," said Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D, at a news conference. At a hearing where senators criticized the program, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said, "I share your shock at this kind of program." But he also defended the Pentagon office that came up with the project, saying "it is brilliantly imaginative in places where we want them to be imaginative." Dorgan and Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., touched off the furor Monday by disclosing details of the Policy Analysis Market, a project that seemed so bizarre that some lawmakers said they thought it was a hoax. The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, working with two private partners, would have set up an Internet futures trading market on events in the Middle East. Traders could buy and sell futures contracts based on their predictions about what would happen in the region. Examples given on the market's Web site included the assassination of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and a biological weapons attack on Israel. Investors were to begin registering Friday and trading was to begin Oct. 1. From the trading patterns, the Pentagon agency, known as DARPA, hoped to gain clues about possible terrorist attacks. In statements Monday and Tuesday, it said markets are often better than experts in making predictions. But the response from both parties was outrage. "This program could provide an incentive actually to commit acts of terrorism," Democratic Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota said on the Senate floor. He described it as a "plan to trade in death." Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee asked Appropriations Committee Chairman Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, and Armed Services Chairman John Warner, R-Va., to make sure the market wasn't funded. "I cannot conceive of any reason why the United States government should be involved in a project of this nature," Frist said. By late morning, Warner and Wolfowitz, at separate hearings, announced the program would be ended. As he praised DARPA at a Senate Foreign Relations hearing, Wolfowitz said with a smile, "It sounds like maybe they got too imaginative." Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., told Wolfowitz, "I don't think we can laugh off that program." "There is something very sick about it," she said. "And if it's going to end, I think you ought to end the careers of whoever it was thought that up. Because terrorists knowing they were planning an attack could have bet on the attack and collected a lot of money. It's a sick idea." Warner said he had spoken with the head of DARPA, Tony Tether, who agreed the program should end. Warner said in an interview that DARPA "didn't think through the full ramifications of the program." Senators said they had only vague information about the DARPA project that included the market. That project, FutureMAP, or "Futures Markets Applied to Predictions," will end along with the market Web site, the Pentagon said. The Pentagon had requested $3 million for FutureMAP next year. The senators said the money attracted little attention in the overall the $3 billion DARPA budget proposal. About $750,000 had been approved for FutureMAP in past budgets. "It's totally unauthorized as far as we're concerned," Stevens said. "No funds should have been used for it at all. It's really a serious mistake on the part of DARPA." Tether was called to Capitol Hill to meet with Warner and Sen. Pat Roberts, chairman of the Intelligence Committee and Armed Services' emerging threats subcommittee. Warner's spokesman, John Ullyot, described the meeting as businesslike and professional. He said the senators will submit written questions to Tether and will await responses before deciding if hearings or other actions are needed. Tether was asked as he left whether retired Adm. John Poindexter, who runs the DARPA division that included the market program, would keep his job. "I don't see why not," he said. Poindexter, who runs DARPA's Information Awareness Office, is used to political storms. A former national security adviser to President Reagan, Poindexter was a key figure in the 1980s Iran-Contra scandal. In addition to FutureMAP, his office oversees the Terrorism Information Awareness project, a computerized surveillance program that has raised privacy concerns. Asked if Poindexter remained on the DARPA payroll, Pentagon spokesman Lawrence Di Rita said, "At the moment, Admiral Poindexter continues to serve in DARPA." --- On the Net: DARPA's FutureMAP Web site: http://www.darpa.mil/iao/Fu... © 2003 The Associated Press McCain, Rice and Bush Jr. Lie again….
In releasing the funding, President George W Bush waived the Framework's requirement that North Korea allow inspectors to ensure it has not hidden away any weapons-grade plutonium from the original reactors.
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Under the 1994 Agreed Framework an international consortium is building two proliferation-proof nuclear reactors and providing fuel oil for North Korea while the reactors are being built. In releasing the funding, President George W Bush waived the Framework's requirement that North Korea allow inspectors to ensure it has not hidden away any weapons-grade plutonium from the original reactors. President Bush argued that the decision was "vital to the national security interests of the United States". Deal under threat North Korea has repeatedly threatened to withdraw from the agreement in recent weeks. It has been angered by President Bush's accusation that Pyongyang was part of an "axis of evil" producing weapons of mass destruction. This annoyance was compounded by Washington's decision to withhold this year's certification that North Korea is keeping its side of the Agreed Framework. It has systematically refused to allow International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors into its nuclear facility at the Yongbyon research base north of the capital. Delayed Pyongyang has justified its refusals by pointing out that the reactors are way behind schedule. They were originally expected to have been completed next year, but now construction is not expected to even begin until August. Another issue is the different interpretations of the inspections' timing. According to the Framework, North Korea should be fully compliant with IAEA safeguards when "a significant proportion" of the project is completed. The builders say that will be around May 2005, and given the inspections will take at least three years, this means that North Korea should start admitting inspectors now. But Pyongyang believes that they should only allow the inspections to start, rather than finish, by that date. The head of the Non-proliferation Policy Education Centre in Washington, a critic of the Agreed Framework, has warned that even when the new reactors are completed they may not be tamper-proof. "These reactors are like all reactors, They have the potential to make weapons. So you might end up supplying the worst nuclear violator with the means to acquire the very weapons we're trying to prevent it acquiring," Henry Sokolski told the Far Eastern Economic Review. Is this religion?
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