Chicken Hawks and Nukes

     Bush invaded Iraq because he said that they had nukes.  Well, that wasn’t exactly true… but that debate is getting pretty tired.  North Korea has nukes.  Not only do they have nukes, they refuse to get rid of them (May I remind you that Saddam not only didn’t have nukes, he was willing to get rid of the nukes he didn’t have!  But we invaded without giving the weapons inspectors time to finish their job).  Yet Bush has no intention of invading North Korea, or even pressuring them with the threat of military action.  He calls it a “diplomatic” problem even though we have about as much chance of solving North Korea diplomatically as a turtle has of climbing Mount Everest.
     So why doesn’t Bush pressure them?  Because for all his big talk about strength and fighting for freedom, Bush is a coward.  He’s a chicken-hawk, urging others on to war while he sits in the White House on a comfy leather couch calling up his Saudi friends.  In Vietnam, Bush “served” his country by staying as far away from the fighting as possible, and as close as he could be to good suthern cookin’.
     Bush can’t even stand up to Kim Jong Il, a guy probably half his height, and a softy dictator who spends most of his time enjoying luxurious living and forcing his citizens to change their hair cuts.  But though Kim might not be very threatening personally, his nuclear program is.  It is a matter of years before they have nukes that can strike U.S. targets, if they don’t already.  We need a more hard-lined approach to this problem.  If Kim is not in constant fear of his life, we’re not doing our job (I’ll bet you’ve never expected a liberal to say that, eh?).
     And as with North Korea, so Iran.  The rulers there might not be so unreasonable, but they have the same objective, and they need something sterner than talks with Britain and Germany to stop them.  When’s the last time Germany won a war?  What kind of threat is Britain to Iran’s national security?  All their troops are stuck in Iraq.  I strongly want this to be an international effort, but that means that our people have to be part of the negotiations.
     The problem with Iraq wasn’t that we shouldn’t have threatened Saddam, the problem was invading the country after threatening it had given us the results we wanted.  But the failed Texan oil-man G. W. Bush couldn’t stand to lose the opportunity to bring in all that ‘Texas Tea’ and take revenge for his father on the man who “tried to kill my daddy”.