(Updated; originally posted April 13, 2007)
I thought this was interesting and rather relevant considering what we have heard about North Korea lately, readers. Enjoy!!!
A VIOLATION of INTERNATIONAL LAW; however, since it is the U.S. it's o.k.!!!
It's great, too, 'cause we get the North Koreans to sell arms to the Ethiopeans so they can crush Islamist liberators!
So NO MORE North Korea not our friend, 'kay?
"North Koreans Arm Ethiopians as U.S. Assents"
by Michael R. Gordon and Mark Mazzetti/New York Times April 8, 2007
WASHINGTON, April 7 — Three months after the United States successfully pressed the United Nations to impose strict sanctions on North Korea because of the country’s nuclear test, Bush administration officials allowed Ethiopia to complete a secret arms purchase from the North, in what appears to be a violation of the restrictions, according to senior American officials.
The United States allowed the arms delivery to go through in January in part because Ethiopia was in the midst of a military offensive against Islamic militias inside Somalia, a campaign that aided the American policy of combating religious extremists in the Horn of Africa....
Since the Sept. 11 attacks, as the administration has made counterterrorism its top foreign policy concern, the White House has sometimes shown a willingness to tolerate misconduct by allies that it might otherwise criticize, like human rights violations in Central Asia and antidemocratic crackdowns in a number of Arab nations....
"A willingness to tolerate?"
Hell, they are FUNDING and DIRECTING the SHIT!
Get your head out of your shit-encrusted rectum, Gordon!
It is not clear if the United States ever reported the arms shipment to the Security Council.... The timing of the shipment was extremely awkward... the Bush administration decided not to make an issue of the cargo ship...."
Translation: OUR CRIMES go by UNMENTIONED and UNREPORTED -- flushed RIGHT DOWN the RABBIT-HOLE of HISTORY!!!!
