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2009-08-04 China-Japan-Koreas

North Korea: 2 U.S. journalists pardoned

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Posted by tipper 2009-08-04 15:31|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 I'm glad the Norks are releasing them, but now the real test begins. They have to fly back with 'Wild Bill'.

Bet he's glad that Hillary is in Kenya.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2009-08-04 16:41|| 2009-08-04 16:41|| Front Page Top

#2 So what did Bill promise the NorKs in return for this?

You know it wasn't his charm that did it, no matter what the Dems say. Something ~~nasty for America~~ was promised in return before he even left the States.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-08-04 18:04|| 2009-08-04 18:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Exactly, Barbara. How do you say "quid pro quo" in Korean?

Posted by Rambler in Virginia">Rambler in Virginia 2009-08-04 18:13|| 2009-08-04 18:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Oh, for Christ's sake. The North Koreans wouldn't be releasing them without concessions - which Obama delivered, I'm sure.

North Koreans are the Vince Lombardi of diplomacy: they just keep winning, and winning, and winning.

Posted by gromky 2009-08-04 18:17|| 2009-08-04 18:17|| Front Page Top

#5 I wonder if Clinton brought the cash in dollars or euros?

Posted by DMFD 2009-08-04 19:38|| 2009-08-04 19:38|| Front Page Top

Bill Clinton is a pimp. The Interwebs tell me so, so it must be true.

But in this case, he brought the pimp hand in North Korea.

Those girls, as stupid as they were to get themselves in that fix, would have died in their gulag prisons.

So for today, I say; well done, Mr. President. Good job.

Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2009-08-04 19:49|| 2009-08-04 19:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Two new members of the Mile High Club, coming up!

Posted by Raj 2009-08-04 20:03|| 2009-08-04 20:03|| Front Page Top

#8 Disagree Mizzu. Two dipshits get in a bind of their own doing then undermine US credibility (what little credibilty we have left) dealing with bad actor nations. In the long run this will cost more than two lives. Count on it.

Posted by Hellfish 2009-08-04 20:09|| 2009-08-04 20:09|| Front Page Top

#9 Could you imagine what Seoul and Tokyo are thinking the Norks got for this? The speculation here is probably just o'boy compared to their o's**t.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-08-04 20:59|| 2009-08-04 20:59|| Front Page Top

#10 Cash For ~~Dumb~~ Cluckers

Posted by Black Bart Ebberens7700 2009-08-04 21:47|| 2009-08-04 21:47|| Front Page Top

#11 It sickens me to think that our President would have our former President genuflect to some foreign potentate for any reason. I guess what comes around goes around, and he will have that task in the future. But it will still be wrong then, just as it is now.

It is wrong to tolerate North Korea.

Posted by rammer">rammer 2009-08-04 22:20|| 2009-08-04 22:20|| Front Page Top

#12 North Koreans are the Vince Lombardi of diplomacy: they just keep winning, and winning, and winning.

Then it's trades that'll do 'em it

*rimshot*

Posted by badanov 2009-08-04 22:27|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2009-08-04 22:27|| Front Page Top

#13 Then it's trades that'll do 'em it in!

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