Hillary

Look what Hillary Clinton had to stay about the latest revelation on North Korea:

"Put simply, they couldn't do that when George Bush became president, and now they can."

Is she really so dense as to think that this nuclear program just happened to spring up in four years?   Let us recap a few items of North Korean importance under her husband's administration, shall we?

Paul Begala, former Clinton adviser, now a talking head on CNN said that Clinton had contained the North Korean threat; apparently, Mr. Begala forgot that Clinton's military chief of staff testified in 1998 that North Korea did not have an active ballistic missile program.  One week later, the North Koreans launched a missile over Japan that landed off the Alaskan coast. 

During the early years of the Clinton administration, hard-liners and ostensible conservative hawks advocated a pre-emtive strike to halt North Korea's nuclear development before it could field an atomic bomb.  Instead of taking the hard line, Clinton relied on former President Jimmy Carter and decided to appease the dictatorship.

Carter met with Kim Jong-Il in Pyongyang and returned to America waving a piece of paper and declaring peace in our time (if you don't get the joke, you don't know enough history).  According to Carter, Kim was going to halt his weapon's production. 

Clinton's appeasement program included hundreds of millions of dollars in aid, food, oil, and even a nuclear reactor.  In return, Kim starved his people while using American aid to build uranium bombs.  The lowest estimate is that 1 million of his own people died, even with the U.S. aid program. 

To contrast, the U.S. repeatedly demanded that India, South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan not develop nuclear weapons.  The U.S. backed up this policy by placing sever restrictions on the export of nuclear and ballistic missile technology these countries.   For instance, when India developed and tested its nuclear bomb, the U.S. responded with hefty sanctions and a diplomatic freeze (which is just now beginning to thaw). 

There's a reason Kim Jong-Il wanted Clinton to moderate between Washington and Pyongyang.