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Saturday, October 09, 2004

PRESIDENT BUSH:...naive and dangerous.

Mr President you have to be careful about creating associations in peoples minds. Also didn't Karl tell you not to repeat yourself so much.

"It is naive and dangerous to take a policy that he suggested the other day, which is to have bilateral relations with North Korea. Remember he's the person who's accusing me of not acting multilaterally? He now wants to take the six-party talks we have, China, North Korea, South Korea, Russia, Japan and the United States, and undermine them by having bilateral talks."

all of the other parties in the multilateral talks want bilateral talks in parallel. Bush's idea of multilateral is to get everyone but him to make the exact same criticism of him.

That's what President Clinton did. He had bilateral talks with the North Korean, and guess what happened? He didn't -- he didn't honor the agreement. He was enriching uranium. That is a bad policy.

he (Kim not Clinton) was working on enriching Uranium. The Bush administration tried to keep the N. Korean confession of this secret because it would distract attention from Iraq. Enriching Uranium is difficult and working on it and achieving it are not the same thing. Extracting Plutonium from spent fuel is easy. Clinton got N Korea to stop doing that. Bush managed to get them to start again. He should get called on this (but probably won't be).

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