Peace at Last! *clink*

Pop open a bottle of bubbly and drink a toast to Bill Clinton, because the seeds of peace he planted in North Korea have finally come to fruition. Now that the tiny island nation has joined the small but growing club of nuclear-armed states, the chances that the imperialist aggressor Bush will invade North Korea are now slim to none. Thus, six years after leaving office, Bill Clinton has assured a brand of peace with North Korea that the Shrub couldn't achieve during his entire stolen peeResidency.

Granted, this peace didn’t come about exactly as we had planned. When our last elected President sent his only begotten Secretary of State riding into Pyongyang on the back of a donkey with a radioactive hunk of cheese wedged between her butt cheeks, it was hoped that Kim Jong Il would be so moved by our gesture of trust that he would forever refrain from developing nuclear weapons - or at least keep it on the low-low so we wouldn’t look like complete jackasses. But no matter how Bill Clinton achieved the peace, it's the outcome that is important.

That's not to say that a nuclear-armed PDRK is without any drawbacks. Make no mistake, Kim Jong Il is a dangerous lunatic. Sure, the Supreme Leader was a sweet little man who could be trusted to abide by a non-proliferation pact when Bill Clinton was president, but it only took six years for Bush to drive him completely nuts. It wasn't just the "Axis of Evil" remark, either. When the Shrub blew the lid off North Korea's secret nuclear weapons program, he forced the proud nation to brazenly continue what it had been doing discreetly under Bill Clinton for years. Our only hope is that a Democrat will be in the White House in two years, so that Kim Jong-Il will once again be a misunderstood yet reasonable man ready to sit down at the bargaining table with his American friends.

I don't expect Bush to thank Bill Clinton for Winning the Peace in North Korea. But Clinton should at least get the credit he deserves for insuring that no Americans will ever have to die on North Korean soil, but rather in the comfort of their own homes as long as they live within the blast radius.

Comments

[Bubblehead]

That is such an amazing picture, and Albright is an amazing womyn for making sure Kim Jong-Il isn't too "ronery".

[Keith Emery]

Not to nitpick but Korea isn't an island its a penninsula. Good stuff otherwise.

K

[Kiki Bee]

"had been doing discreetly under Bill Clinton for years"

A-ha! Due to Lib Lar's latest prose, we now know the real reason Fondly turned gay. BTW, Exey Crusty Eggs, is the Fondleman a friend of yours?

[DonkeyDick]

May I point out to all the doubting neoKKKons that it was Ms. Albright's magic brooch that won this complete cessation of atomic endeavor from the No'th Ko-ree-uns.

If only Ms. Condoleezza Rice would just collect and wear brooches with the same dedication as Madeline baby did, the world would be a safer place.

I don't want to quibble, but isn't that Helen Thomas in the photo? Ah, maybe not. She's wearing a magic brooch.
Hard to tell 'em apart.

[Bubblehead]

Who the heck are you, "Keith", to question one of the greatest progryssyve minds on the planet?! As a true progryssyve, Liberal Larry doesn't need any of your Dead White Men-inspired "facts" interfering with his post, or with hys reader's intellectual exercise in smug self-congratulation for being so much smarter than the sheeple around us! Why don't you go back to FREEPerland?!?

[camojack]

"Ill" Kim is lookin' fer trouble, he is...

[Fist of Etiquette]

I hate to take sides in this matter (conflict gives me a rash), but the situation here is too important to continue to be my usual, passive self. North Korea is, indeed, a penninsula. Just take a peek at a globe and you'll see. That's why they call it Asia's penis.

[Bush4Ever]

Ya know dat he illin'
An' he just be chillin'
Cuz ya know he's willin'
Ta nuke ya ee-yass
Yee-ah

Now is the time to surrender in North Korea, South Korea, Japan, China and, at last, VietNam. Just wait till we take over in November.

[Moonchild]

Chalk up another one in the 'W' column (W, heh-heh) for progressyve policies. FDR secured peace after WWII by gifting the territory Germany had been trying to conquer in Eastern Europe to our Soviet friends. Truman's administration gave aid and comfort to China as Mao began his benevolent forays into creative population control and economic systems. Kennedy showed enlightened restraint towards Cuba's maximum leader. Johnson used American baby-killing lives much as a river boat gambler uses poker chips in Johnson's aggressive policy towards, ummm, stuff in Vietnam. Carter secured religious freedoms and helped give the U.S. a much needed humbling in Iran. Now, Bill Clinton, peace be upon him, in addition to his work against terrorism, has secured a gentle peace on the island nation of Korea. I'm raising a glass of organically grown Plum Juice. Thanks Bill. Your legacy among your peers now stands complete.

[DonnieDarko]

I wonder what radioactive butt cheese smells like?

[Menstrual Rainbow]

Isn't it wonderful to remember back to a time when Secretaries of State were willing to attend the birthday parties of elderly Asian ladies, as Maddy is doing in that picture.

[libmeister]

With peace like this, who needs wars?

I feel a moronic ... er, harmonic convergence coming on.

To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe." Jean-Paul Sartre

[Baldwin is Bald]

Larry said:

That's not to say that a nuclear-armed PDRK is without any drawbacks. Make no mistake, Kim Jong Il is a dangerous lunatic.

What kind of comment is this for a "so called" left-winger? True progressives recognise the workers paradise.

I quote from that link:

James Taylor from the UK says:

I just heard about that as well on BBC Breakfast news, it was the main 'breaking story' headline.

Congratulations to the DPRK if this is true. A truly historic day and a deserved blow to the imperialists.

Danuel Cortes from the United States concurs:

I'm eager to see if this is real or not. This would be a big step forward for the DPRK if it is.

Don Macleod from Canada is equally enthusiastic.

Congratulations DPRK, This is truly a history changing event and one that will not soon be forgotten, let the imperialist's tremble at the sight of a Socialist Technical Revolution!!!

Once again Larry, your "rightist" attitudes are letting you down.

[Neocon-pincher]

This Humongus is a reasonable man -- open to negotiation.

*donning powder blue hat*

I'm off to North Korea to make sure that monsieur Ill Jong knows to only nuke red states.

[jainphx]

Radioactive butt cheese-all youcan do is smell it you sure cant eat it. Can you? Maybe it makes one hornry enough to klink glasses with Helen Thomas.

[SpinningOlive]

I just thank the she-god for progressives like Jim Kong eel. At last we have a true balance of power in the world so the great Imperialist Satan US can no longer threaten its smaller counterparts. Welcome to the world of Superpowers DPRK. We can finally breath a sigh of relief that there's somebody willing to wantonly destroy us with something besides our own airplanes or young Islamic explosive males (which, by the way, do limited damage.)

[libmeister]

I think the 1994 North Korean Atoms-For-Peace-Policy of Presidents Clinton and Carter was a stroke of brilliance. I hope there isn't too much negative fallout from the recent turn of events because I'd hate for the glow of that monumental step toward world peace to decay into radioactive bickering.

Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing. --Shakespeare's MacBeth

[Dave]

As a progressive, I have always had a soft spot in my large, caring heart for leftist despots that crush the hopes and dreams of his people for their own collective good.

When the great news of DPRK's triumph over US imperialism came over NPR, I was out dining al fresco. I changed my order to a dog meat platter with a side of tree bark and grass to stand with my brothers in arms in this fight against the evil bu$h regime. On the way home traffic was stopped because people were watching the dancing in the streets over this great news. Just more evidence that we dems will win big in nov.

The Clinton years were time of great peace. It was proven over and over that if you just give people what they demand they will leave you alone for now. Violence never solved anything but conflict, the Clinton years were proof of that.The lion truly did lay with the lamb. As soon as the chimp took over, wars broke out all over this once peaceful world.

Now if only Iran can get the bomb a new wave of peace will sweep over this troubled world like a shock wave.
you have work to do Jimmy Carter!

My only fear of this great event is that it will take our eye off our true enemy, gay repubicans.

[Arbiter]

If Jimmah Carter was still the President (I'm still not certain he wasn't re-elected in '80 and that Ronald Reagan didn't rigg the votes and steal the election) we would be loved by the Phrench, wearing really cool Bhurkas, and North Korea would be a wonderful hot spot for vacationing.

[Bush4Ever]

I loved the Peter Jackson remake of this benevolent ruler's hard life.

[Miss Carnivorous]

I am so worried about my comrades in the Peoples Republic of China. It would be so tragic if the very Democratic and fair nation of China were anihilated by a mad dictator. Where would we in the West find organs to replace the ones we have destroyed by our overconsumption of trans fats? I vote for Bush to nuke North Korea instantly. Keep the hearts and livers of executed Chinese dissidents and Falung Gong practitioners coming! What if North Korea nukes Japan, who would buy our overstocked Mickey Mouse crap?

[Ali Ali Ali]

posted by MOONCHILD:

Chalk up another one in the 'W' column (W, heh-heh) for progressyve policies. FDR secured peace after WWII by gifting the territory Germany had been trying to conquer in Eastern Europe to our Soviet friends. Truman's administration gave aid and comfort to China as Mao began his benevolent forays into creative population control and economic systems. Kennedy showed enlightened restraint towards Cuba's maximum leader. Johnson used American baby-killing lives much as a river boat gambler uses poker chips in Johnson's aggressive policy towards, ummm, stuff in Vietnam. Carter secured religious freedoms and helped give the U.S. a much needed humbling in Iran. Now, Bill Clinton, peace be upon him, in addition to his work against terrorism, has secured a gentle peace on the island nation of Korea. I'm raising a glass of organically grown Plum Juice. Thanks Bill. Your legacy among your peers now stands complete.

*sniff* if only this legacy of greatness hadn't been broken by that peeResident select dumbya....

[Menstrual Rainbow]

When debating with repugs about North Korea I always use the Random Insult Generator- http://www.nk-news.net/extras/insult_generator.php

- You sycophantic flunkey, we will thwart your frantic attempts to stifle us!

- You black-hearted warmonger!

-You bourgeois lackey, your accusation against the DPRK is no more than barking at the moon!

[Arbiter]

Good link Menstrual Rainbow. I still prefer to scream "Nazi go home!" to anyone who disagrees with anything I say...

[Kiki Bee]

"I hate to take sides in this matter (conflict gives me a rash)"

Dear FofE, are you Arbiter's beloved Baboon with the red, rashy butt that he so fondly loves and blesses peace upon?