Gates: We’re Powerless to Stop No. Korea’s Missile Launch
By SusanUnPC on March 29, 2009 at 1:59 PM in North Korea, President Barack Obama, Robert Gates, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Get a load of this. Did SecDef Robert Gates misspeak or spill the beans, and out of turn (in the president’s stead)? Do you suspect some heads are exploding at 1600? (After his swift pop-ups on the Sunday talk shows, PBO’s probably back at Camp David working out and planning to watch college basketball games, so for god’s sake please do NOT bother him.) Hillary may be peeved too, given her carefully constructed, mightily resolute warnings to North Korea (see below). Or was Gates deliberately lowering expectations? This video is a Web-only “after the show” discussion following Chris Wallace’s Fox News Sunday during which he interviewed Gates (although the video of that interview is so far missing from Fox News’s disorganized Web site):
Here’s HILLARY on the missile launch as well as another video that provides excellent backgrounder info, with a partial world MAP of North Korea’s possible trajectory towards Alaska:
From my story of Greta’s interviews of Hillary Clinton in Mexico this past week:
Now, here’s a “breaking news” story on Japan’s and the U.S.’s movement of battle ships — and a helpful map of the positions of the ships related to from Studio B on March 27th — as well as the left-leaning POV of P.J. Crowley of the Center for American Progress:
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