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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I feel like a real big sitting duck right now. WTF is going on? Is this the stuff Imbiben was talking about? The “Gird Your Loins” stuff? Costa Rica is really calling my name.
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Me too. What a riot. Shall we post these as an open thread item?
Susan, that would be hysterical.
Susan I’m very sorry I didn’t even see this thread. I’m loosing it. I posted about this in the open thread. Can you move those posts over here where they belong? I’m so upset about Gates and his MIGHT statement.
looks like old JOE knew what he was talking about…
it’s gird not grid!!!!!!!!!!
Gerard…I just went to the link in your name…”Kaboom?” ROFLMAO.
heh heh…
i gotta laugh to keep from crying…
So let me get this straight. Pakistan, that has a democratically elected government, can be bombed.
Korea, run by a dictator, we can do nothing about.
Sigh.
I just want to see the obots faces when Sarah Palin pushes the button..and is the one who destroys the missle!!!!!!!!!!
I just want to see the obots faces when Sarah Palin pushes the button..and is the one who destroys the missle!!!!!!!!!!
Good one! LMAO.
Now that would be karma folks. I would love to see that even if it scares the h*ll out of me that they would be able to launch one that far.
It looks to me like the whole purpose of these movements is to totally know everything we can learn about this launch. To have scientific evidence on exactly where they are in their development.
Or practicing his bowling…
or practice his ers, ahs, and uhs in front of the TelePrompTer.
Or trying to figure out which special interest group he should insult next.
Or the theme to his next White House Party.
Good one Ferd, since he already threw himself the world’s largest Toga Party.
you guys are a riot…
enough already, i’m gonna pee my pants laughing…
Sending conflicting messages is not helpful. So which one SoS or DoD is representing the posture of the White House? Obama can’t have it both ways. He sets policy and I doubt either Hillary or Gates would say something publicly on an issue this important without his input. I don’t think he understands yet, the buck stops in the Oval Office.
Correction: Not DoD. The Pentagon.
This is OT, Susan, but I’m wondering if Hillary can’t be convinced to run for governor of NY. Patterson’s approval rate is really low and I think she could beat Cuomo too. I was conflicted about her being in his administration to begin with, but I’ve felt better with her as SoS, but if he is undercutting her, I don’t believe she will stay.
Well, we need to ask Ex President, were all OUr taxes went. So far a lot of milliond/Billions are going to also ex CIO’S, those who destroy OUR Country.Gates is guy who shoild know the most on defence and offence, now He tells US that we have no way to defend USA. WOW!!! Maybe Alaska or Hawaii ccould be targeted by those rackets from N.Korea. So, for me souds, that USA military is unable to defend own COUNTRY!!! Mexico drugs deallers are nocking on OUR borders…. this is no joke!!!
I love Pr.Obama move and kock first CIOS out, there are more to be remove. Go for it President Obama, get all those responsible for dodays mess!!!