BIll Richardson Succeeds in North Korea: THIS is why we need a man like him
Interestingly, Democrats are already starting to take over the job of President. Bush can't get anything done when it comes to North Korea. But in no time, Bill Richardson goes over there and negotiates a deal.
For those who only knows Richardson as a governor, keep in mind that he has diplomatic credentials: he has been US Ambassador to the UN under Clinton (back when we actually were respected in the world) and has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize four times for his diplomatic efforts.
So, when Bush sent him to negotiate with North Korea it was an almost unprecedented event in the Bush administration: a good idea. Richardson was supposedly going to negotiate the return of the remains of a US serviceman. Honestly that always sounded a bit odd. The fanfare was too much for that. Turns out he was negotiating getting inspectors back in. From KOBTV in New Mexico:
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson’s visit to North Korea appears to be yielding unexpected fruit.
Richardson, part of a bipartisan delegation dispatched to North Korea to return remains of U.S. MIAs, appears to have secured a concession from the communist state on its developing nuclear weapons program.
Monday, a North Korean nuclear arms negotiator relayed to Richardson that the country would be willing to allow international U.N. arms inspectors into the country if some $25 million in North Korean money that has been frozen is released.
Meanwhile, Richardson will be joining the other Democratic candidates and Air America Radio and MoveOn.org in a virtual Town Hall event to discuss Iraq. You can join in through a MoveOn.org event near you, or through Air America radio 7:15-8:45 EST. You can also read Richardson's plan for Iraq .
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Thanks for your views
Submitted by mole333 on 11 April 2007 - 7:17pm.
We welcome your input! I have not yet decided who I support...but Richardson is on the list!
RICHARDSON'S RESUME
Great article on Governor Richardson. This is what one New Mexican has to say:
Richardson's International Resume is Urgently Needed.
“One thing the Bush administration has never understood is that diplomacy and military power are not alternatives to one another, but rather are
complementary sources of strength. Because diplomacy without power is weak, and power without diplomacy is blind.â€
This is the core of New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson’s international platform, taken from a speech he gave in New Hampshire in late 2006, and the
kind of insight he gained as a UN Ambassador and Energy Secretary during Clinton. His international resume is a breath of fresh air, and since the
USA needs urgently to rebuild and to entirely rethink its international policies, after 6 years of corporate Halliburton-driven plutocracy, I believe Richardson really MUST become President.
Our domestic economy is in the pits because of hundreds of billions of dollars going to Iraq and to Afghanistan, mostly military expenditures, all to advance the Bush Administration’s corporate agenda. Other nations are capitalizing on our errors and our distractions, like China with its trillion dollar balance of payments, as well as Russia, which funded many of the developing nations in their colonial struggles, both pointing to our oppressive presence in Iraq, telling African, South Asian, and South
American nations that they are perfectly willing to BUY their natural resources, instead of plundering them.
The international backlash of a totally failed USA foreign policy has profound implications for a worsening USA domestic economy, and the situation is getting seriously worse by the day. This is why I support Bill Richardson’s presidential campaign. He recently stated the war would be over on his first day in office, and his trip to North Korea is already bringing important results.
Here is another quote from 3/28: "I would not leave any troops in Iraq. ... If I were president today, I would withdraw by the end of this calendar year…. But I would also have a reconciliation conference of the
three religious groups, forge a coalition government, and divide the country into three entities. ... I don't believe you need a residual force in Iraq.
I believe you need any troops that you can deploy from Iraq. I would put them in Afghanistan, where al Qaeda and the Taliban are serious threats"
("Hardball," MSNBC, 3/28).
How about putting USA’s troops nowhere, for a change?] Truly,
Stephen Fox
(P.S. I am in no way connected with the Richardson campaign; these are my own views entirely)
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