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Chirac, Jacques • 2003 phone call is recounted by in which George W. Bush said "Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East" and the only way to keep the biblical prophecies of the Apocalypse from being fulfilled was to invade Iraq...
...Served as an intern for George H.W. Bush...
...ensued since Obama entered the White House in January. The North has tested its second nuclear bomb (the first test was in October 2006) as well as a long-range missile and has said it has no intention of ever rejoining the so-called six-party talks - the Bush Administration's ultimately futile attempt to get the North to, in effect, re-enact the Agreed Framework of the Clinton era. (See pictures of the rise of Kim Jong...
...economic sanctions against Pyongyang and - perhaps most important - had his Treasury Department start to put into effect unilateral financial sanctions against North Korean companies and individuals. It was precisely those sorts of sanctions - and their effectiveness - that infuriated the North Koreans during George W. Bush's second term, when they stormed out of the six-party nuclear talks and didn't return until Treasury sanctions were removed. The Obama Administration, moreover, has constantly reiterated what Defense Secretary Robert Gates said this past spring after the second nuclear test: "We're not going to buy the same horse twice"; that...
...told the former President on Aug. 4 that he is willing to reopen talks about his nuclear program but only directly with the U.S., what will Obama say in response? Is it likely that the President will insist on a diplomatic arrangement that is entirely a product of the Bush Administration? The White House likes to think of itself as guided by cold-blooded realists - diplomats who keep their eyes strictly on U.S. interests. Three successive Administrations - Clinton, Bush and now Obama - have decided the only real goal that matters when it comes to North Korea is getting...